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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
thus deserve our support.” The MJFF raises about $50 million a year. There are prominent backers, such as Google’s Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, but nearly 55,000 other people made contributions last year. To date the MJFF has... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Minto asserts. "Because of this, an HBS student, on average, belongs to four clubs. We want to be sure that the clubs can continue to offer their members the best service possible." Minto's penchant for getting involved View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Supplemental Airlines, which had the license to do that, but in most cases they weren't doing that. So we were able to acquire a little airline called Zantop, and in many ways, that was the most important deal that we did because it launched us. AW: If I've got my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
a couple of young MBAs. But fate works in funny ways. For one, it brought Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) together in Section I. The two became friends and started dating near the end of their first year at HBS, but... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
work. Can you talk about that a little more? You said that you're engaged in something you're sort of informally calling The Sabbatical Project. Can you give me an update on what you've done with that to date and where you hope to go with... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Matsubara clinic also has 18 beds for in-patient services, an option that Sato-san has exercised for one week each month since July, mainly to ease the burden of his care on his wife. Dr. Umeda and the nurse eventually set a date for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
there, I had the strong impression that the quintessential HBS experience continues, brought up to date by some state-of-the-art rocket boosters that have lifted it to even greater heights. View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
provides power equipment, thermal equipment, and services to data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments. When did you take on your current role with the club? In April 2024. Andrea Fantacone Andrea... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and the right to sell their View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
tomorrows. Appropriately, therefore, some nine hundred participants - most of them HBS alumni - convened in San Francisco last March to assess the outlook for business as it stands poised at the edge of unknown territory. At the elegant Fairmont Hotel, which View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
institutions. Our goal is to eradicate these inequalities and build equity in our communities. The Anti-Racism Fund provides capital to organizations as a way to inject social change.” To date they have raised more than $300,000 in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
face with realistic business situations right in the classroom." Building rapidly on the skill base and fiber network already in place at the School, such an initiative has indeed been launched. Progress to date has included the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
War II for families of men in military service while they attended military training programs operated by Harvard during the war, but I think it was used mostly after the war for the large influx of married veterans under the GI Bill.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
was unable to get to Boston by the date specified (commercial air flight was not yet available), my father recounted how he had gone to Harvard on my behalf, taking two days off from his small business to travel by train from Altoona,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
producers and a lot more executives. And now the studio makes a lot less movies, maybe almost a third less movies. And as a result, there are fewer producers and fewer executives to service those movies. So that's a big change as well.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White