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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
For Angie’s List, a New Niche? I enjoyed the profile of Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) in the March issue. While pursuing a post-HBS PhD, I supplemented poverty fellowship wages by pounding nails at a small, conscientious hardwood floor... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult to cut—I think it just... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Debate: The Business of Business Despite the need to exclude so much material, McCraw believes that the papers presented at the symposium paint a rich portrait of the many "remarkable contributions" to management education made by Dean... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. What Is Management’s Role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Listen Up
All eyes are fixed on Jim Aisner, the maestro of HBS campus tours, as he spoke to a group of alumni and their families in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the opening day of the Centennial Global Business Summit, Sunday, October 12.... View Details
Keywords: campus tours
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Reducing Risk with Online... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
commitment to continue to push for an economy that serves all Americans." An article in Fortune details the discussion that led to this new statement of principles, which began with an examination led by Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
across the country. The opening day of the conference featured a welcome from HBS African-American Alumni Association president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA 1974). His remarks were followed by a management seminar, conducted View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on entrepreneurship, where we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
1965) Have a Long-Term Strategy — Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Beware of Bias — Donald J. Chiofaro (MBA 1972) Exceed Expectations — Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) See Every Side — Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) Take a Chance — Michael Kubin (MBA 1973) Make the Hard Call — View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
economies, Govindarajan and Trimble show how to make innovation in emerging markets happen and how such innovations can unlock opportunities throughout the world. The New Power Base Selling: Master the Politics, Create Unexpected Value and Higher Margins, and Outsmart... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
Arts, Tisch Hall, and Tisch Hospital. Visiting Central Park, you can enjoy the Tisch Children’s Zoo. Then taking a break in Washington Square Park, you can relax by the Tisch Fountain. While the family is well-known for its business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
Photographed at a recent HBSAI Speaker Luncheon were (from Left) Brendan O'Reilly (12th OPM), guest speaker Harry Lorton (15th OPM), Jim Barry (MBA '94), and George Good (43rd PMD). Photo courtesy HBSAI According to former HBS Association... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
Williams writes: “The surprise celebration was held on an early spring afternoon in 1968 on the tarmac at Logan just as Zschau disembarked from his plane. It was organized by Chandler Daniels, a former member of The Highwaymen (a 1960s... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
until seventh grade, basketball until eighth grade, football until ninth. Then I wrestled and threw the shot put and discus through high school. The faster the ball moved — or the smaller it got — the sooner my career in that sport was over!” Gibbons’s vision loss was... View Details