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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
opinion of what barbecue is and how it should be made.” How would he please people across the barbecue spectrum? Corsello’s solution was bold. He and his partner Jeff Mauro, of Food Network fame, would serve “creative barbecue.” The approach View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Made in America: Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Commerce,” piqued my interest, so I ended up reading the entire magazine, not just the Class Notes. Imagine my shock when I saw the “The Scene” photo of twelve singing tycoons in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
to macro shocks in the global economy, and there were few places to turn to for financial support. “There’s not much venture capital now, and for sure there wasn’t much venture capital back then,” he adds. “It was very tough to go to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
reunions. READ MORE Morrell: Diane, thank you again for being here. We really appreciate it. This is a new way of looking at these undecided voters, who were sort of a black box. What were you seeing early on that was revelatory to you? Hessan: It was absolutely View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
shock of the Kennedy assassination and the accession of President Johnson. And increasingly, there was the problem of Southeast Asia. McNamara says he at first accepted the Cold War–based “domino theory” that if South Vietnam fell to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
together and helped each other cope with the loss, the pain, and the shock to our everyday lives. When New Yorkers join together, nothing can stop us." But for most New Yorkers, that resolve would not come immediately - the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
(Fictive Press) It’s 1957 in the fictional Canadian province of Superior. In the span of just a few days in November, the lives of several high-level government officials and a colorful cast of “destitutes” are about to change forever as wrongdoings lead to View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are merely the latest View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
competitive and make you compelling. JH: Bonnie Cohen (MBA 1967) was among the earliest women graduates of HBS, after the MBA program went coed in 1963. When she arrived at Soldiers Field, Cohen was shocked by the ratio of men to women,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
was a freshman in high school, and so many of us were 14, 15 years old, and that was starting high school. This was the beginning of the new millennium, and that was the beginning. I remember watching Shock and Awe and the "mission... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch suddenly became focused on stakeholder capitalism and the vague mandates of environment, social, and governance (ESG). This culminated in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
estimated that price tag at a shocking $504 billion for 2015. Having parked, Langford is now maneuvering a cardboard box full of spiral-bound white papers through a series of doors leading to a Carter Center conference room. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
practices is to comply with the law," says Rowe. "The second is to get out in front of the law, which is only going to get more complicated as attention is turned increasingly to environmental issues." NEES was first turned on to the benefits of conservation after the... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
Life-threatening food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, and yet there are no FDA-approved treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to Elise and Greg Bates (both MBA 2000) four years ago when their daughter Campbell... View Details
- 14 Nov 2015
- News
A Message to HBS Alumni in France
The following message was sent earlier today to HBS alumni in France, following the tragic events of November 13. Dear HBS Alumni and Friends, The unfolding events in Paris have shocked and saddened the world. On behalf of the Harvard... View Details
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
manage a food distribution company and an agricultural investment fund. “Many global experts have underscored that this pandemic is a 12-18 month battle and that we can expect future pandemics and shocks related to climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
was being poorly managed." The two men arranged to meet again. A month later in New York City, they shook hands over dinner and agreed to work together. "I was shocked when I discovered how much the music industry favored the record... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
liquidity shock because of the extent of leverage, of debt that had emerged in the system. So the lack of knowledge about financial history, in your view, contributed to the current global financial crisis? I really believe that. It’s... View Details