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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
efforts to identify biological threats and safeguard against the use of bioweapons. That’s not enough, warns Matthew McKnight (MBA/MPP 2012) of the Boston-based biotech firm Ginkgo Bioworks. McKnight believes a comprehensive global View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
Jewish family, Stanley Diamond recognized the importance of warning his relatives that they, too, might carry it. It was easy enough to contact his mother’s large immediate family in Montreal and New York, with whom he had close... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
conducted an AI exercise called “Storrowed” with students, using GenAI tools, to understand why some trucks ignore the height warnings of overpasses on Boston’s Storrow Drive and regularly get stuck, causing traffic backups. The goal was... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
regardless of cost. Recounting his early years in this quixotic business, Jones notes, "When I first came to this area, the prospects were not encouraging. No one was growing premium grapes, and I was warned that the climate might be too... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
eager to start a business that was foreign to most Europeans. With limited resources, he was ready to take advantage of an opportunity others disdained. After all this time, he still takes nothing for granted and warns against even an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
his card and warned merchants about his creditworthiness; MacDonald sued for $500,000 in damages. JDM, INC.: MacDonald became wealthy from his fiction, which detailed financial maneuvering and business issues to an extent unusual for... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
and economic inequality http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/. The so-called Kerner Report, warning that the United States was in danger of becoming two “separate but unequal” societies, recommended federal initiatives to boost education,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
Shady dealings at the negotiating table may work in the short term, but in the end, you’ll undermine trust and tarnish your reputation, warns HBS professor Michael A. Wheeler in the March issue of Negotiation, a newsletter from HBS... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
have told her that Haines’ quiet insistence made them take the warnings to evacuate more seriously. “Unfortunately, we all have this mindset that we’re on the phone or we’re writing an e-mail, and that we have to finish whatever it is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
warn that the government’s ability to pass legislation to stabilize the economy reflects a familiar pattern where an emergency forces a temporary “semblance of bipartisanship” only to return to “business-as-usual political brinksmanship... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
predictions of those who warned that a company whose bottom line wasn't the bottom line could never survive, Scher has molded privately-held Working Assets over the past fifteen years into a business with 500,000 customers, 100-plus... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
international cooperation it needs to do its job? We are greatly encouraged by the increasing support and political commitment in recent months devoted to combating avian influenza, but even more is necessary. Surveillance and early View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety and seat belts, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
and instructions for employing the 4+2 formula. They also warn readers that although they believe they are offering the most statistically effective approach to achieving the highest performance, it requires a high degree of stamina and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details