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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
also decided early on to be a catalyst and facilitator of change rather than actually providing programs. Working in partnership with city, county, state, and federal government officials and a multitude of leaders from the civic sector,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
company, and location into a database and shared it with all the women. It was a valuable resource, but a database alone wouldn’t be enough, Hagemann reasoned. “If we launched a formal network,” she told Pent, “I think we could change the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
School of Business, recounts his history at GE in his recent book, Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. And in this first episode of a special two-part Skydeck interview with Immelt, we talk about his rise to CEO, the challenge of enacting View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
research strategies and tools available,” he says. “The event was timed as an early evening event outside working hours and provided a valuable reminder to those of us in Europe that distance is not a barrier to using the Baker Library... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
changed for them when the world went remote. They’ve since hired six employees who are clustered in Boston but working remotely. As the team expands, the founders wonder whether they should build a remote-first company or plan for an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
evolving into the future? Chris Cobb (MBA 1992), Miami, Florida Nitin Nohria: Many of us have a perspective that HBS exists—as you say, philosophically and physically—in splendid isolation from the rest of Harvard, with the river forming not just a break but also a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of business plans from alumni starting... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
may not guarantee long-lasting immunity. This is of major importance for vaccine development, because a person must produce a sufficient amount of neutralizing antibodies to be protected.” Seftel has used the weekly updates to give a sense of the broad—and constantly... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
earning their MBAs, almost half had broken away from a rapidly changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
occurred, causing 1 to 2 million deaths. The H5N1 virus is treacherous — we know that it can jump the species barrier to infect humans and that it is prone to mutation. Indeed, every case of human infection increases the probability that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
seem unlikely soil for agribusiness, the School actually had an ag industry course before I arrived. And Dean David, who himself came from an agribusiness background, wanted to improve the relationships in the value-added food system. Over the years, I’ve seen View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
many members of the Tech Club, startups will be their entry into the tech world. That often means raising venture capital, which presents another major barrier to women’s entry into the field as founders and CEOs. Raising venture capital,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
again with respect to some of the issues raised by China.” Innovation and continuous improvement are the keys to moving to a stronger competitive position, he says. “We changed more than the Japanese did. The Chinese are more... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
I’m scared of being bored more than I’m scared of an adventure. I started Bridgewater in 1975 out of a two-bedroom apartment. I figured if it didn’t work out, I could always get a job. Then in 1981 and 1982, I crashed. I could not have been more wrong about the market.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
work from home. I learned the benefit of meeting people where they are.” Let’s get real: “One day I said to the office manager, ‘You know, we have to get more women in here. If I had a heart attack in the ladies’ room it would be three weeks before anyone found me.’”... View Details