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- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
also a more heartfelt inspiration behind Popa’s gift. His late mother, Florina, a nuclear engineer in Romania, had always wanted him to be a geneticist. “This gift,” he says, “is a way I can begin to honor her dreams.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
tremendous risk,” he writes. “We were the only media company going local throughout the world, and it was the key to our success.” Roedy, a former nuclear missile–base commander, created an entrepreneurial, innovative organization with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
with General Dynamics Electric Boat to prepare people to build nuclear submarines for the US Navy and work with Bank of America on programs that prepare individuals for jobs in the financial services sector. We also have a partnership... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
media company going local throughout the world, and it was the key to our success.” In 1989, Bill Roedy was told to transform the American success story MTV into a global presence. Twenty years later, Roedy (a former nuclear missile–base... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
as Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., Deseret Pharmaceutical Co., New England Nuclear Corp., and Velcro Industries. And by the summer of 1969, it was ready to hire its first associate, Henry McCance, fresh out of three years in defense systems... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
School are much different now, Kester observes, yet the Class of 1949 entered a period of uncertainty, characterized by the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, that is not unlike the current anxieties surrounding the war on terrorism.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
that of rigorous enforcer of management-science principles, could coexist with a more personable side, softened by the glow of Camelot. Decisions and policies had to be made regarding history-shaping issues such as the nuclear arms race,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
apart! Skynet has become self-aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy. What enemy? Us! Humans!” But Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, says all that Hollywood-inspired fear of artificial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
brink of nuclear annihilation, and only a few people are aware of it. A riveting story of how two men’s lives intersect in the midst of an existential crisis, The Able Archers is told through the eyes of two key participants: a young... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, and hazardous wastes. A Global Solution Professor Joe Lassiter The flame from a natural gas flare dances in the shadow of an oil pump jack near Keene, North Dakota. “Natural gas is not an economic... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Happens Next in Ukraine?” As attack unfolds, escalation, nuclear standoff among Harvard experts’ worst fears Harvard Gazette Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones Ex-intelligence... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
as a squadron leader. The RAAF took Gower all over the world. He chased diesel submarines in the Mediterranean and nuclear submarines in the Arctic; commanded counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and peace-keeping operations in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
editor and columnist Chris Kelly. “We often joke that if there’s ever a nuclear war, you want to be in Scranton because it takes 25 years for anything to get here. It’s still very much the old pay-to-play political model.” One example is... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
corporate ladder wasn’t for him. He wanted to make a more personal mark in the world. “A principle role model at the time was my uncle, Henry Way Kendall, who was a nuclear physicist, Nobel Laureate, and cofounder of the Union of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
think about democracy and information. If a company from Ghana invented some kind of nuclear missile and wanted to bring nukes through the United States on their way to Canada, you wouldn’t think that was okay. You would say, “Let’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
to be treated as scarce; that’s why those cities are configured the way they are.” In his 1961 classic, The City in History, Lewis Mumford penned words amid fears of impending nuclear holocaust that invoke the present era’s own nightmare... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
effective communicator. Martin Shapiro’s 2039 by Martin Shapiro (MBA 1966) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) A dystopian novel depicting a world in which no nuclear explosions or pandemics have occurred, but, in the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“We’re not going to occupy Berlin, and everything simply goes away,” says Rothrock. “Cyberdefenses must be part of business.” Winning means cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare have become a sort of manageable tax or a cost of doing business, and not a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai