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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Community Reaches Out
impact that five hours of work could have on the lives of senior citizens," she said. "Project Outreach and other volunteer activities put my work at HBS into perspective." One MBA section cleaned and waxed an entire fleet of vans from SCm Community Transportation, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
individuals who have to go to work where they’re not able to socially distance, and they’re using public transportation to get there. We have worked tirelessly with the leadership of those communities to try to mitigate the illness. We’ve... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
2018. The deadline to apply is January 22, 2019. Semi-finalists from around the world will compete in the live finale at the Rock Center on April 23, 2019. Leading up to this year’s event, we checked in with a few past winners to find out where their View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the chairman and CEO of Simmons &... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
Continental -- Brier went dot-com in 1998. He cofounded and became president of Priceline Travel, a division of Priceline.com, the e-commerce company that enables its customers to name their own low price for airline tickets, hotel rooms,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
function. One important element will be time-based pricing that stimulates demand when renewables are producing abundant electricity. Additionally, electrification of whole new sectors such as transportation (through electric vehicles) or... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
In an effort to expand the reach of its Asia-Pacific Research Center, HBS has opened a satellite office in Japan. Masako Egawa (MBA '86) has been named executive director of the Japan Research Office in Tokyo. Formerly an executive director in charge of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
fares, “Peanut Fares,” to unfriendly acquisitions—that helped the company survive. “Deregulation bred a very different kind of management. Suddenly, managers could see there were opportunities to be creative.” “In my first appearance in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
suspect it was transporting contraband. He grabbed a CSECO Fiberscope—a fiber-optic inspection device that resembles a plumber's snake—and fed it into the gas tank. He peered into the scope's eyepiece. "Generally, if you interdict a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Fields Photo courtesy FORD Motor Company Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally No disrespect to Detroit and California—they’re definitely hubs... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
regional competition entered the finals, which took place in early April through online crowd voting as well as judging by a panel of business experts. "Pitch videos" and profiles of each team were posted on YouTube to the competition audience to preview. Members of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Many HBS graduates are now leading companies and nonprofit organizations involved in the environment or sustainability – as entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, or philanthropists. Following is a selected list of notable alumni and the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
automotive company Aptiv for the first autonomous commercial rollout in 2018. To date, customers have logged about 25,000 driverless rides and awarded them an average of 4.94 out of 5 stars. (A human pilot and copilot tag along, both to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to... View Details