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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
economically and socially. It could be a critical tool for pulling a community together and provide an incentive for it to rebuild itself. It also avoided the appearance of favoritism. If the government was seen as supporting one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
however, the economics major decided to try an internship in investment banking, courtesy of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a mentoring program for minority students. “I fell in love with Wall Street and the idea of taking on an... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
members, civic leaders, philanthropists, role models, and connectors for young people who are economically vulnerable.” Yet when Rice looked around the classroom and saw few people who looked like him, “I asked, ‘why is that?’” As a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
felt that I was wrongly admitted, knew nothing, and I was going to hit the screen within the first six weeks. And this was about probably week four. I was still kind of getting my bearings, feeling like maybe I had a chance to survive, but struggling to read the cases,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
underground economic activities work to put cyber currencies in context, the book discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cyber currencies in today's underground economy. It also includes an appendix of illuminating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
to learn in the March issue about the extensive response by the HBS faculty to the global financial crisis, with emphasis on diagnosis of its causes and analysis of solutions. In our government’s response to the current financial crisis,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
content of the work, the context in which I worked, the issues that I was dealing with, the unfolding of the global financial markets, as well as the political and economic situation that shaped especially the emerging markets of Latin... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
insistence on more data and deeper analysis than had been the McKinsey norm. In the 1970s, he began touting the importance of strategic management for every kind of firm; eventually strategy consulting would become the core of McKinsey’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
frame in which these radical changes and directions or redirections in economic policy are going to take place. The issue, if there is one, has to do with timing and phasing, rather than with ultimate objectives and purpose.” Nair... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... View Details