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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery vehicles" for medicines proliferate, new distribution channels, such as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources like HMOs and pharmacies. A... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Before he became a federal judge, the controversial Robert Bork once labeled antitrust "a policy at war with itself." In this case, he was right. Antitrust laws are problematic. That is not, however, to say that they are without value.... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
and project management, Art Mosley (MBA '68), ACOG's director of venue acquisition, has seen his share of controversies surrounding property issues and negotiations. So it was with pleasant anticipation that he contemplated a major phase... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
led to Merrill’s acquisition by Bank of America,” he recalled. Three weeks after the deal closed on January 1, 2009, Thain was forced to resign as controversy swirled around the generous terms of the $50 billion deal and $3.6 billion in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
chair of the ad hoc student-faculty Committee on Section Dynamics, he helped resolve controversy over a faculty-written document outlining norms for HBS classroom behavior that students perceived as proscriptive in nature. The committee... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
all of these things have been areas of great concern and have caused challenges for the fashion industry, because obviously it’s an industry built on premium brands, authenticity, and strong customer relationships,” he says. “Amazon is probably the most View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
valedictorian. "Being a student body leader during such a controversial time proved to be most rewarding," says the polished and gracious Safin, who speaks English with the barest trace of an accent. "I was able to take the initiative to... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
a building not far from the White House. To the young receptionist who buzzes in a visitor, he’s “Mr. Mac,” best known, perhaps, as the restless, elderly gentleman down the hall. To those of an older generation, he is, of course, much more than that: one of the most... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
satisfaction. The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You Really Need to Know about Our Most Controversial Food by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Lauson Publishing Inc.) This book raises more than 200 of the most common questions that come up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
practice. We put our ideas into practice, see how they work, and learn from that how to make them even better." —Deborah Blagg Prescription: Make Medicine Personal A writer and scientist with a PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins, Gregory Stock (MBA 1987) is an... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
(MBA 2002), President, CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), Director, Distributed Energy Ventures, National Grid. “Climate change is such a controversial topic,” says Kiernan. “So this event was a big deal, especially with Professor... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
it means for them. It is particularly hard in the U.S. because the topic has become unnecessarily controversial and polarizing. This is a massive communications failure; there’s a massive gap between what scientists know and public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
could be in a meeting at the same time. You’d hear someone answer a question and learn indirectly how to handle a difficult situation. As we grow, I think a lot about how we replicate that experience with training that is within the brand and the culture of the agency.... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
were compelled to make what they wanted to make: art that was controversial in some quarters, and overlooked in others, “says Joyner, who feels the kinship of being an outlier in her collecting choices. “This collection is definitely... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
the same time turning Marxism upside down.” And one major way in which Schumpeter upended Marx was in his treatment of the controversial question of monopoly. Writing in the 1930s and early 1940s — a time of mounting public anger over... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
named five times by Inc. magazine as one of the country's fastest-growing enterprises. "We proved the critics wrong," Scher says with humble satisfaction. "Working Assets is a successful company that's not afraid to take a stand on View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and hazards of some of humanity's most controversial technologies, which may nevertheless provide the key to saving our world. What the Heck Do I Do With My Life? By Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) Rupa Publications India Our world will change... View Details