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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
challenge ahead is to create a system that maintains and shares stable prosperity and economic growth equitably and globally. “Today,” he said, “we are being reminded of Keynes’s famous insight, that the market system is not always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
Randal Bessolo (MBA 1992) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Randal Bessolo (MBA 1992) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) I got into coaching basketball when I was 33 years old, volunteering at the Mercy Home for Boys in Chicago. Mentoring inner-city youth had View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
and had little leverage to force the company to lower the price of electricity and offer green energy. “We are ready to take up these fights on behalf of the communities,” Riley says. One of the first was in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
Illustration by QuickHoney On the surface, there is seemingly nothing sexy about a startup that sells foam mattresses online. But in January 2014, David Coats (MBA 1992) and Trevor Kienzle (MBA 1991) made a significant seed-round... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
first-year Required Curriculum. It aims to bridge the gap between learning and doing through team-based leadership development, global experiences, and integrated thinking activities. FIELD coursework will take place inside classrooms dubbed “hives” located View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
quantity of shrimp deveiners and clam knives from Ekco, which makes high-end kitchen implements. I grew up on the East Coast, and I knew these items were useful and a great value for a buck. But they sat on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
Administration flourished under Teele, leading ultimately to the admission of women to the MBA Program in the 1960s. The School marked its 50th anniversary with a megaconference - well covered by the Bulletin - on "Management's Mission in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
diversity and inclusion is what one might expect from a consultancy. The organization offers strategies, advises on diversity initiatives, and helps find and retain talent to fill the top seats. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
Marjorie Alfus, a retired Kmart executive who now concentrates on the real-estate and stock markets; the Committee of 200 (C200), a national organization of women business executives; and the School. "Women, no matter what their level of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
into some of the most-improved schools in California. In this video, Tuck talks about his mission to give inner-city kids a chance at a high-quality education. “When I applied to HBS, I knew that I wanted to get focused on how we help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
The 1970s New York contemporary art world that Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) knew, where painter Jean-Michel Basquiat tagged buildings and artist Keith Haring bartended, was a far cry from the corporate boardroom. But Deitch—like so many of the artists he has supported—had... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
with the feisty Radcliffe history and literature major, overheard the exchange and popped his head in on the meeting. "Give this woman what she wants!" he exclaimed enthusiastically. O'Donnell knew that indulging Lang's independent spirit... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
Another in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have embarked on second careers. John P. Mulroney (91st AMP) became an opera fan years ago when a work transfer led to a ten-year stint in... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself through continuous, deep-seated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
How much is the Grand Canyon worth? What would you pay to prevent developers from building condos on the Cape Cod National Seashore? As difficult as it may seem to answer those questions, Linda Bilmes (MBA 1984) has made it her business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
employs an enviable tactic: "I eat," he laughs. "I'm always nibbling and testing - my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie." No Typical Days An excellent set of taste buds is one obvious asset in the food... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
all but one showed up, resulting in them all getting into trouble. 2004B used to have dance parties in our classroom in between classes. We always tried to get professors to join in, but they rarely did.... View Details