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- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
company aims to sell 20 million electric vehicles a year by 2030—about a quarter of all new auto sales worldwide. (Last year, the company delivered 1.3 million EVs.) The company’s valuation, now at more than $500 billion, has increased... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year? That’s the problem being... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Assets: Memory Full
When Dante Roscini (MBA 1988) arrived on campus in 1986, he and members of his class each became the de-facto owner of an IBM PC Convertible (purchase was mandatory for all incoming students). As conceived by German industrial designer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
others.” The 52 students in his cohort spent eight days in May working on challenges proposed by nine partner organizations in Mexico City. The trip was the culmination of the yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
stores. it was sheer perseverance. My first big breakthrough was a $50,000 purchase order from Kmart; after that, Toys “R” Us also carried our full line of action figures, dolls, and games. By 1995, Olmec... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
advance our best people.” The result is the Professor Henry B. Reiling Fellowship Fund. A fund that would help address that need while bearing the name of the man “who was my favorite among many great HBS professors,” seemed to Mencoff like a win-win. He had View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
carry that forward.” Burning Man: Art on Fire (photo by Scott London) Burning Man: Art on Fire (photo by Scott London) Location, location, location: “The fact that Burning Man... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners, winners of the social enterprise... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
Alan, echoing a sentiment that was heard many times over during the trip. As for the highlights of the journey, he put “seeing a male lion perched in a tree,” as his and Monica’s most memorable moment and listed several close seconds including the lectures View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
where they usually keep their cows — marked by a circle of large sticks poking out of the ground — they took us into their huts and showed us where they cooked and slept. Then the older Maasai showed us their wares — mostly intricately... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
International, Ltd. London, England. Candidates for HAA Director The purpose of the Harvard Alumni Association is to promote the welfare of Harvard University and to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between Harvard University and its alumni. The main work... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
thoughts returned to beating the record of 69 days, 14 hours for the New York-Melbourne trip, set in 1855-56 by the clipper ship Mandarin, which was carrying American prospectors to the Australian Gold Rush.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
Asalaam alekum (Peace be upon you) is the greeting and farewell heard everywhere in Sudan, even in the teeming refugee camps and villages to which millions of uprooted Sudanese have been chased by fear and death. In these places created... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
of the 30 most respected CEOs in the world by Barron’s magazine in 2007, the same year the Tata family was awarded the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. In 2008 he was among 100 individuals named by Time... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
was one of five students to receive this year’s Dean’s Award for outstanding service to HBS and the community. For their part, HBS students, inspired by his example and commitment, have raised over $400,000 to combat ALS. With his family... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
the proceedings. Photos by Stuart Cahill For the hundreds of MBA students and their families assembled on a hot and steamy Baker Lawn last June, Class Day 2004 was an occasion for mixed emotions. Several of the event’s speakers juxtaposed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
and joining the Sterling Group, a boutique M&A and LBO firm. “You’re playing the game at a fairly high level, and you have this Harvard MBA, which carries expectations and provides great opportunities,” says Anderson. The compensation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
and programs. Appointed by Harvard President Lawrence Summers as the interim Dean, Light has served the School in a variety of senior leadership roles during his 35 years on the faculty. Asked what’s impressed him most about his latest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna