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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
to allow displaced Cambodians to return to their country after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Then it was on to Somalia, where he served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and cofounded... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
final package of specific recommendations. In March, they turned it over on schedule to the new government. Just a month or two later, Aung San Suu Kyi's new government announced the formation of a new presidential council with equal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Democratic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
If the internet was this poor at a private K–8 school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Marwell wondered, what was it like at other schools across the United States? Not much better, he soon found out. One Federal Communications Commission... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
skills, and the host country’s needs. Why is Morocco so important? Morocco straddles the West and the Arab world and is a longtime ally of America — it was the very first nation to recognize our fledgling, newly independent View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
securities firm, Carl Ferenbach entered theworld of investment banking, spending five years as the head of Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions group. In 1984, he and four other HBS alumni organized what would become Berkshire... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
and services to consumers over 50 in the United Kingdom. The first three to six months, almost everybody who arrives at HBS is convinced that the admissions office must have made a mistake, that they’re going to get caught out. If you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Another First
DESJARDINS: Heads Air Force Academy. PHOTO BY DAVID BITTON/COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE Brig. Gen. Susan Y. Desjardins (TGMP 14, 2004), a veteran cargo- and refueling-plane pilot and commander, became the first female commandant of cadets, U.S. Air Force Academy, in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. While in the United States the make-up market is twice the size of the skin care market, in China the skin care market is four times the size of the make-up market. The huge Asian skin care market is unique, moreover, because... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the... 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss in the workforce. Late last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
nonprofit leaders today," says Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, a member of the School's General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative who focuses on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
case method is so good. I was forced into the fray. It helped me with my ministry, because it put me out there. I have to be able to engage people of different backgrounds and with differing perspectives.” Upon graduating, Quainton joined the First View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
lay on his cot having been in the country for 12 hours as the mortars came in, trying to figure out how he was going to take this unit and find the bad guys ” When I came back from Afghanistan, I told Professor Jim Cash that the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
University in the spring of 1970. "I went over mainly out of curiosity - to observe and see what was going on," explains Belkin, now chairman and CEO of Trans National Group, a large direct-marketing company he started just three years... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg