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- 01 Dec 2008
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Where Are They Now?
the current economic turbulence. “People talked about a real-estate bubble, but nobody foresaw a collapse in home prices on the scale that has occurred,” with the potential for nearly a 30 percent drop nationally, he says. Pointing to... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
service as a director and lead director on multiple nonprofit and corporate boards. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Barron about board service,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College because I planned to return home to run the family business, a small chain of seed and feed operations in the Red River Valley, in North Dakota and Minnesota. But John Black, who taught agricultural economics at Harvard,... View Details
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- 23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
become home to the first iASO Bachata Academy. “We announced to the classes, ‘We’re offering music lessons in bachata. If you are interested, please come to the tryout,’” de Menil says. “Pretty much every student came. There were hundreds... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Denmark known as Bjergsen. Several thousand people are watching him play LoL, as the game is known, right now on the streaming service Twitch, and tens of thousands more will watch the video of the game later. To guarantee that Bjerg, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three areas in particular in which we... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
had spent a lot of it on a motorbike, selling pots and pans. Haryopratomo: It wasn't about the glamour of being in a startup because it wasn't glamorous to be in a startup at the time. Morrell: Very few people in his home country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
to be a success. McInnes: People on campus started to notice us. We started to draw a few spectators to our games. 1964-65 team: Including Bob Brown (second from left), and Tom Stephenson (MBA 1966) (far right). Photo courtesy Bob Brown Johnstone: At View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
making boards smaller, ensuring their independence, maintaining three core committees, and providing leadership that reinforces the board’s independence and effectiveness. Within this general framework, they suggest numerous ways that boards can View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. All of these efforts have brought home to us that we can have a positive impact on your lives well after you leave the HBS campus. Along with all you do to make the world a better... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
like in the 1980s and ’90s? That was one of the great things about the high-tech industry: I could dial up on my computer from home when nobody did things like that. These were entrepreneurial companies that were pretty flexible. I also... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
social side, that talks about your relationships with employees, suppliers, and clients, and the communities in which you operate. So labor standards, employee relations, local community impact will be another one. Equal employment opportunities, health care education,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for urban public... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
China is not yet ready, he said, for national elections (although 680,000 villages have elected local officials), the country’s goal is that “the people supervise the work of the government.” China is committed to improvements in human... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
video, all to improve the at-the-game experience and to keep pace with the coverage enjoyed by fans at home. Engineering Excitement If the NFL has seemed preternaturally blessed by good fortune and smart management, some of its success... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
college and the effort that I took, at the time, to really improve my speaking skills. And at the time, I didn't really have any resources. So I remember it was very much trial and error, observing other people, asking friends for help.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Class Day and Commencement 2001
afford them. In the traditional category, Alec Machiels (MBA '01), and his MIT and Harvard teammates Paul Ashby, David Darst, Jason Hong, Scot Sternson, Martin Szummer, and Angie You created the winning plan for Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a venture that would help View Details