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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
will climb Mt. Fuji along with medical, research, and public-policy personnel in a venture sponsored by the Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. The climb has been organized to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research and to serve as a vivid View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
recently been the headquarters of a drug dealer known as “Tarzan.” It was a symbolic gesture, Rodríguez Larreta acknowledges, but an important one. “Our biggest obstacle was the lack of credibility. For years, [residents] have had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
afar, we had a vision of a simpler life. The village, set up so that outsiders would concentrate their disruptive inquiries to one area, seemed to be a symbol of their having sold out to commercialism. After the adolescent members of the... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
Authentic Leadership Development. Reflection and recalibration are so important in leading a purposeful life and career. The book has been perched on my desk at work since graduation. For me, it is a symbol and a reminder to stay true to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
particularly interested in branding, luxury marketing, symbolic consumption, consumer self-control, and fairness and ethics in marketing. A member of the faculty since 2007, she currently teaches the second-year MBA course Luxury... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
regions. National and community service is more than a program. It is a mindset and a way to shift the culture. While sporadic service days are more symbolic than sustainable, they still pay tribute to values and call on people's better... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
stark symbol of America’s forgotten poor, tonight it is lit with the iconic symbol of Mercedes-Benz, which purchased the stadium’s naming rights in 2011. Asked how the orchestra has been important for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dominated by the Sunnis. To some extent, the Shias had been sort of grudgingly accepting of it, as long as there was room for gradual improvement. In the last twenty years, this kind of accommodation was turned upside down by the brutality of Saddam’s regime and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
town, dressed in traditional Dutch dress. Lara will do the same, and she plans to incorporate Mexican embroidery in her Dutch-inspired panel ensemble. “That’s what I'm trying to do—sort of blend traditions. It’s a physical symbol of how... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
VLACHOUTSICOS Photo courtesy of Charalambos Vlachoutsicos The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the seismic event that symbolized the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of communist rule in Russia... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off from the thousands of regional airports that dot the globe. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
hard to imagine being the only woman in a room of 350 people, but that’s what many of us experienced.” The founding CEO of AltaVista, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) was a pioneering IT executive at companies including Symbolics and Lotus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Berolzheimer. “He was tough on students who didn’t use their imagination, and for that reason I didn’t like him at first. It was only later that I came to appreciate that it wasn’t personal.” Levitt’s habit of throwing chalk at the blackboard, he says, was a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
our symbolic stocking: things such as character, trust, and vision. Many of them have said, however, that as leaders they were so often put in difficult situations because they were women that they really had to have a passion for... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
promotions, oversees much of the marketing end of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival. "We market the festival as a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go along with the once-in-a-lifetime cachet of the Olympics," Segerlind says. "With the Games as a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
firm that partnered with San Luis Rassini when it was a state-owned steel company. Its evolution into a privately owned, global supplier of auto parts is symbolic of how deep Mexico’s transformation has been over the past twenty years.... View Details