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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
New Zealand Adventure
It was a perfect summer day in New Zealand, and what better way to ring in the New Year than exploring protected bays, enjoying golden sand beaches, and searching for stingray by kayak in Abel Tasman National Park. This is how seventeen... View Details
Charles R. Schwab
profits, the company eventually became a consumer favorite, being one of the first brokerages to serve customers nationally and to offer 24 hour, 7 day a week services. View Details
Keywords: Finance
Arnold O. Beckman
Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Curtis L. Carlson
Carlson was the first entrepreneur to develop a loyalty program for the grocery chain through the issuance of Gold Bond trading stamps. What began as a simple loyalty program for grocers in the Midwest grew into one of the largest service... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium. The MMRF built the first multi-center myeloma tissue bank, became the first to sequence the myeloma genome, and... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
change education is spotty at best. This fall, New Jersey became the first state to integrate climate change topics across grade levels and content areas. Anecdotally, MJ has heard that Maine and Washington State have new statewide... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and Sharp - remain on that path, and they are all in Japan. In computers, the Japanese have been and remain major challengers to the U.S. industry, with growing market share in large systems, servers, and software. These have been extraordinary developments. The View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Marymount University for the national competition and support from Pacific Life Insurance Company, Lawry’s Foods, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, and many other businesses. In 1982, Academic Decathlon held its View Details
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Diane Hessan
I grew up in a working-class town where children grew up, got married, and moved into their childhood homes. Everyone was happy but didn't much care about the rest of the world. I read every copy of National Geographic I could, and on a... View Details
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Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
1986 – “Competition and Strategy” course becomes part of core MBA curriculum at Harvard Business School 1990 – Publishes The Competitive Advantage of Nations 1994 – Founds The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) 1998 –... View Details
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George F. Baker - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
School agreed not to limit its 1924 fundraising appeal to Harvard graduates, but to cast a wide net to leaders in business—including George F. Baker, Director of the First National Bank and one of the... View Details
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to own and direct a brokerage firm that was a member of the NYSE. Adam Smith - Vanderblue Collection One of the most comprehensive collections of the works of Adam Smith in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
Declaring himself “appalled” and “dismayed“ by recent acts of greed and wrongdoing in corporate America, Dean Kim B. Clark told a National Press Club audience in Washington last February that “we need solutions that are driven by a... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
News Enterprises, the first U.S.-based Web site to feature only international news. Valuable as those outlets are, however, they serve only a niche audience. With a declining presence in newspapers, foreign news is increasingly absent... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
management diagnostic, an assessment tool designed to help national malaria control programs and ministries of health assess their managerial challenges in a more systematic way. I am also supporting the strengthening of the existing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
are absolutely essential, will substantially increase the cost of doing business." Mullin came to Delta in 1997 after a two-year stint as vice chairman of Unicom Corporation and Commonwealth Edison. His rÈsumÈ also includes service at the View Details
Walter B. Wriston
Soon after assuming the presidency, Wriston built Citibank into the nation’s second largest bank in terms of total assets. He was instrumental in the convergence of Citibank and the First National City... View Details
Keywords: Finance