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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Under his ten-and-one-half years of leadership, the School launched FIELD and HBS Online. It created two joint degree programs: an MS/MBA in Engineering in conjunction with the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steadily improved. Railroads were the big breakthrough, but by 1939, 10 percent of all intercity freight was shipped by motor vehicles. Getty Images For nineteenth-century passengers, riding the rails was a heady experience marked by the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
staff designers in exchange for a portion of Local Motors. But just as things were solidifying toward the end of the year, Jones began to pull away. He had been offered an opportunity to return to Ford in his native Dearborn, where alum (and current president and CEO)... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier this year, gatherings sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
highest-ranking woman in the AOL Time Warner organization — oversees more than 130 popular magazines, including the company’s high-circulation weeklies Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, along with well-known publications such as Fortune, View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
feet?” Moore asked in astonishment. “Thirty thousand feet?” There, marked on the map with the same attention given any other summit was an indistinct sketch of a mountain, labeled Mount Koonka, height 30,000 feet above sea level. A curly... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
such a demanding yet fascinating field of research, whether the subject of study is a single deal or the entire industry's movements. "There are many interrelationships that involve economic, political, and human factors," comments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the second most popular employment option, after financial services, for newly minted HBS alumni. It's also what many older alumni from a variety of fields eventually turn to, applying their hard-won expertise to create a "next career"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
reCommerce market grew significantly in 2013 due to the influx of new devices. Although the market opportunity is enormous (estimated to reach $14B in the United States by 2015), the companies entering the proverbial playing field are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Rolling on the River
New England is known for more than its apples and pumpkins. In early October, a bumper crop of over 2,000 alumni and guests popped up on the HBS campus to attend reunion celebrations for the MBA Classes of 1949, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, and 1984. This year View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
pesticide applications—have stripped the soil of natural life, making it especially difficult to grow things here. "We have absolutely no topsoil left on this property," Leiserowitz says. "It's all subsoil. The fields of native grass that... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
caught the entrepreneurial bug. She realized she was passionate about solving problems with new and innovative solutions. Three years later, the newly married Skeete Tatum applied to HBS to pivot to venture capital, and convinced her husband View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
one whose insights were grounded in a profound understanding of practice.” The author or coauthor of numerous articles and eight books, Levitt left an indelible mark on the business world with two pieces in particular, both published in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
the woman’s data and cross-checked it against the genetic databases of the research institutions. After 10 minutes, Watson noticed that the woman had not one but roughly 1,000 gene mutations. Many of these, however, seemed to carry hereditary View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
donors such as David Rubenstein also makes it possible for the School to provide faculty-designed and -led field experiences where students can experience leading in an unfamiliar environment. The Evolving Campus Since it was built in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
impersonal forces and events. Indeed, in the field of business history, it was HBS professor Alfred Chandler who shifted the focus of scholars and others away from individual heroic entrepreneurs toward a concentrated examination of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
later an escape for actor Marlon Brando, the islands are now home to a Pacific Beachcomber resort. Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and Neil Calvanese (Columbia Univ. Press) This View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
wit and insight.” —Assistant Professor Ariel Stern, on Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, by Mark Miodownik Quoted “I think that having someone from the outside buy Talabat was better for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
orientation may allow important innovations to languish, leaving a void that more entrepreneurial companies in the same field may successfully fill. While keeping close to customers may be critical for short-term success, Christensen... View Details