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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by changing people’s understanding of the world. This View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
“You were against government spending programs because of the deficit. We now have a surplus. Will you help us spend the money?” And the Republicans said, “No, we were lying. We were against the spending.” So you had this moment of... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
other real estate investments in the area. That’s an important quirk of the city’s tumultuous economic history. Detroit was long a company town, and then, when there was no one else—not even the city—investing in Detroit, those who did... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
The School’s Immersion Experience Programs challenge MBAs with active, cross-cultural learning situations around the globe, from Silicon Valley to China to Europe. An on-the-ground report from Mexico’s smallest villages and its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Executive Education programs — and help them think about some of these questions. Kanter: Suppose we took some of these issues we've been discussing — CEO compensation, for example — and asked students to think of themselves as problem... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
work,” she says. “It was so different from being an operator and having a product, deadlines, and customers.” Now in its sixth year, the Entrepreneur-in-Residence program invites accomplished entrepreneurs to the HBS campus for a year to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
Casado says, students of fellow CPCL alum Michael T. Bendixen visited the FEA from the Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, to meet with faculty and graduate students and learn more about the university's approach to teaching and research as well as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than thirty years. In 1971, Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for reflection because of the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
he's thinking about starting a VC fund. He actually said this to me, he said, "This program absolutely changed my life and open my eyes to what's really possible." And so, I think every day we're just seeing people who ... They're... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he adapted to the restless spirit of invention View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Welcome to the USA! You’re Hired! By Betsy Cohen (MBA 1978) Constead Press In this book author and economic development innovator Betsy Cohen presents wisdom from a dozen experts in career development and job... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
development company amid today's roller-coaster economic cycles is a challenge, he says, but challenges are something understands. "You need to say, ‘I'm going to do what's best for the company,' and do what you think is right," he says.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
getting the job done. Over the years he transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE (JAB) from a small, privately held German company into a successful global powerhouse. In addition to serving as chairman and CEO of JAB, Harf’s many roles... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based in Waltham, Mass., that for more than 60 years has developed View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
the state’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. He also started a Harvard-Hawaii initiative that involved creating paid internships with nonprofits in Hawaii for HBS and Kennedy School students, as well as sharing... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
the brand through other channels. But now he wonders whether to break it off. Sticking with Amazon means a simplified supply chain. The Fulfillment by Amazon program handles fast fulfillment and, with free shipping, the View Details