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- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing population of 1.2 billion people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
learn the seven biggest traps in life and work that catch people unaware; identify the traps that are holding them back; discover their escape routes and climb out of the quicksand; and avoid traps altogether. The Mystical Naturalist: How the Natural World Informs Our... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Best of Costa Rica
Pura vida is an expression that Costa Ricans use to describe an attitude or state of mind. It means “pure life,” and for Costa Ricans, it is a philosophy of living — a peaceful existence, a life close to nature, a pride in their culture,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
explain everything I ever wanted to know about carbon exchange, deforestation drivers, species displacement, and so on. My work colleagues, both Liberian and expatriate, are absorbed by their work and live their View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
accountable?” He also expressed concern that too much emphasis is placed on independent board members. “The more independent, the more ignorant,” he said. “Sector experts can be very helpful.” On the Continent, executive compensation is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
More Slice of Life Stories By John Schwarz (MBA 1963) Independently published Like the author’s earlier book, Living Dangerously and Other Slice of Life Stories, the protagonists in A Day at the Ballpark... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
living in an HBS case study over the last 15 years, as the book industry has been transforming itself into a more digital industry. As recently as five years ago, some of the crystal ball folks said, “Oh, physical books are going to go... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
curveballs life throws.” After successfully leading turnarounds at Converse and Keds, Jacobson launched Strategic Grant Partners, a foundation and pro bono consulting firm that collaborates with social entrepreneurs to improve the lives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
So you feel good, lose the baby weight, and are more present, while raising thriving children—in an entirely do-able, time-saving, with-you-in-the-trenches way. Confessions of a Christian by Art Hilsinger (MBA 1952) Independently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(OPM 30, 2001) and Blair S. Walker Wiley This is the true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, beginning with her adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier Reginald Lewis follows, as does... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
Martin Scorsese. But a producer? What do they do, anyway? Part of the confusion lies in the burgeoning number of credits (executive producer, coproducer, co–executive producer ) that have become a familiar part of a film’s opening moments. With that said, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
lowering risk. Sean Rosen Is Not for Sale by Jeff Baron (MBA 1978) (Greenwillow Books) Killing Limbaugh by Landon Carter (MBA 1967) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) The Awakened Relationship: Transforming Upsets and Blame... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
Film Center (JBFC), showing a range of independent and foreign films and hosting special events with actors, filmmakers, and critics. (Steven Spielberg was a recent guest at the center’s 10th anniversary celebration; other luminaries... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the end, it's the boards that must resist the pressure to overpay executives. Healy: To put it in context, we View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
and independents in the center to cobble together a winning coalition. The default position is big-tent appeals or, especially for the underdog, negative attacks on the opponent’s character, experience, and leadership potential. Also,... View Details