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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors Your company’s scientists and investors can be antennas that bring great ideas into your company. The key, says Associate Professor Lee Fleming, is understanding small-world networks. The New CEO’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
It was a Friday afternoon on a weekend when no "WAC" (Written Analysis of Cases) was due in the deposit slot by midnight Saturday, so a number of us were preparing to go skiing. I was with sectionmate Fred Marshall, when we noticed a small crowd gathered on the Storrow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in the company’s subsequent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Aldrich Renovations Reach Halfway Point
Students taking classes in Aldrich Hall this year can literally place one foot in the past and one in the future where the old and newly renovated halves of the building meet on each of the three floors. To avoid disrupting classes, facilities planners arranged to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Fall Reunions
Reunion photography by Stuart Cahill, Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, and Neal Hamberg Old friendships were renewed and new ones made during the fall reunion weekend September 30–October 3, when more than 1,400 graduates and guests from the MBA Classes of 1959, 1964, 1969,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that manufactures and sells... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
It all started with a Japanese language class. Steven Williams (MBA ’84) was a senior marketing director at San Francisco’s Genentech when he took Saturday classes at Soko Gakuen Japanese language school four years ago “just to keep the neurons firing.” “It was a hobby... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
HATS OFF: Jubilant Class of 2004 grads whoop it up on Baker Lawn. Student speaker Dan Heath urged his classmates to live wisely and joyfully. MBA Program Chair Carl Kester and Dean Kim B. Clark with Class Day speaker Richard Wagoner (MBA ’77), GM chairman and CEO. Once... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
The judgments of many people regarding the merits of a restaurant, hotel, or bar trump a single reviewer’s opinion. That’s the philosophy behind the Zagat Survey leisure guides, and Ted Zagat (MBA 2004) has literally grown up with that concept: His parents founded the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
Beschloss Photo Courtesy of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Following the death of former President Ronald Reagan in June, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) was frequently quoted in the media on his assessment of Reagan’s legacy. History’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
Many HBS faculty members make it look easy. But anyone who has ever tried to lead a discussion among eighty students will quickly realize that case-method teaching is an art. It is an art that requires a tremendous amount of training, practice, mentoring, and continual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
Since its September 2002 kickoff at HBS, The Campaign for Harvard Business School has traveled to thirteen U.S. and international cities, helping to strengthen and unify the far-flung HBS community and giving more than 3,000 alumni the opportunity to meet Dean Kim B.... View Details
- 24 May 2013
- News
Aimed at Increasing Vaccine Access, Vaxess Raises the First Part of a $3.75M Series A
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to the valley every year to harvest... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just the right spot with delicate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take Leadership and Corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Undercover Alum Faces the Music in HBS Show
When the upper reaches of HBS administration accidentally lose the School’s entire $1 billion nest egg, the FBI offers Dean Clark a way to recompense for the fiduciary gaffe — or else. The Feds have decided that HBS would make a perfect hideout for the star witness in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
Finding a job can be a challenge in the best of times — so why go it alone? Members of the HBS Club of Greater New York gathered in November to benefit from the expertise of Kate Wendleton, president of The Five O’Clock Club, a national career-counseling network.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
Other Tips Learn to embrace uncertainty, and you’ll be more willing to propose and accept the type of compromise that leads to mutually beneficial agreements. Seek out an objective critique of your plans from a third party, whether a professional or a colleague. Be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
Alumni interested in leaders of the past century now have a powerful database at their fingertips, thanks to the School’s Leadership Initiative. The online resource offers a comprehensive overview of leadership in 20th-century American business and includes detailed... View Details