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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
advantage shrinks as a result. Fortunately, I don’t think that will happen. There’s been an increased emphasis on individual research projects built into the MBA curriculum, and that offers a healthy antidote to just reading printouts. —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
"Kurt, why are you doing this?" And he said, "If you took the blood from my body and projected it as an image on a screen, it would be this work, and it would be this city, so I couldn't stop it if I tried." Those kinds of interactions we... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
my own. I actually really enjoyed working for McKinsey because I didn't have to deal with the jammed printer or copy machine. But this was back in 1999. I was leading a pro-bono project for McKinsey working for the Nature Conservancy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt authorized public road projects on a massive scale. The cooperation between the government and the budding automobile industry helped make motor transport the dominant mode of the twentieth century.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
saying the package had been returned to sender. “It became a huge issue for us,” says Moskowitz (HBS 2015), then a first-year MBA student. “I figured this has got to be a problem for other people, and there has to be a more cost-effective and efficient way to solve... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
information technology, and new developments in our MBA Program have motivated us to take a close look at our plans for the campus over the next decade. These plans have focused on several needs that we see emerging. In addition to new space for the Executive Education... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
message. This huge construction project was basically a commodity, right? Almost anybody, any firm could have done it. These are one of the big firms, but the tech company was a very forward-thinking tech company, told them after the fact... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
percent higher up-front investment, the lower energy and maintenance costs can offset the expense. And she estimates that larger dwellings can be built for a 0 to 2 percent premium, making them a potential next project for Birchwood... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
in its elements, but the stakes were enormously different. It’s probably the largest private-sector, competitive economic development project in US history.” And it was successful for Moret and the estimated 500 other people who worked on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
experiential learning, immersion experiences, and team-based entrepreneurial projects are all on the right track.” Dawson grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and was the first in his family to attend college. He majored in business and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
generates electricity as it rolls—“[a] project that makes the world a better place.” Cofounder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City that creates a line of socially beneficial play-based products, she was on Forbes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
enhancing classroom learning. Learning Teams are also assigned graded projects in several first-year required courses. “By getting to know each other, working closely together, and making joint decisions, the students experience the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and development strategy and View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student study sessions in View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with very different... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
that for projects that I have. The rest of it, we're doing a turnaround of an 8,000-person company, and I need people who can add value. So I had this amazing job for two years where I had to figure out my own job inside this company. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
keeping with the conference's emphasis on the implementation of information technology, Clark did not merely talk about the new technology initiatives at the School, he also helped demonstrate them for his audience. With Clark providing commentary and conference-goers... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice