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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
shortages, we set up a special system called “Flagpole Reports.” (“Run it up the flagpole so everyone can see it.”) The first reports from Vietnam identified emerging shortages in aircraft flares, 40-mm ammunition, collapsible petroleum... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
side, telling stories and getting to know each other, any fear and prejudice they may have felt before meeting is gone. This is the sort of scene that Alan B. Slifka (MBA '53) had in mind in 1989 when he cofounded The Abraham Fund, a... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
date, Michaels has received $3.75 million in venture capital funding. “I vetted and launched Stride during the HBS Startup Bootcamp,” she told Poets and Quants, adding that she took advantage of the School’s Rock Accelerator and weekly View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase. With exhibition games, special... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
The nation’s business schools have a responsibility to contribute to that effort, Clark said, describing a special series of workshops on corporate issues undertaken at the School during the past academic year. Known as Corporate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
firms, establishing the foundation for her eventual move into television and the executive suite. In 1999, feeling "the ten-year itch," Thomas-Graham talked to a longtime mentor who recommended that she meet with Jack Welch, then CEO of... View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
With a steadily growing membership of more than 320 alumni, Stidman says the club has been very active from the beginning. Current programs and special interest groups include an executive speakers’ series, a breakfast forum, a women’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
is a particular need for managers to be entrepreneurial in spirit, to view business from a global perspective, and to know how to use information technology to their companies' best advantage. To meet this challenge, in the past few years... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ MORE Old Meets New: A Dinosaur... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
to serve as a diverse sounding board around our initiatives, bringing the alumni perspective to our hardest decisions. Are there any special challenges for the Board in the face of the pandemic? Like everyone, we have had to adjust to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
special interest tours - to big game reserves, bird sanctuaries, and golf resorts, for example - are also being planned. "Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing for the last seven years at a rate of 4 to 5 percent," said HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
whole organization around it because we know that ultimately we will fail if we don’t. We also see great opportunity. When I meet with CEOs of different businesses, they all see the environment and sustainable use and conservation as... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
We’re going to have to do business in fundamentally different ways. The days of jumping on a plane to go for a two-hour lunch meeting to close a deal? Those days are over. People are discovering that you really can close that deal on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
companies to describe their strategy clearly and move on to what really matters — making it work. "In today's business environment, strategy is more important than ever," write the authors. "This book shows how leaders can shape their own companies and View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
Conferences have augmented the traditional reunion programs and encouraged cross-class contacts," he notes. "In addition, we are now offering special courses tailored to our alumni. These initiatives, combined with the lifelong e-mail... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
they took. “Nobody had anything more sophisticated, and it seemed so primitive,” Bushkin says. “It’s the biggest opportunity I’ve ever seen to do enormous good and simultaneously create enormous shareholder value. There are damn few... View Details