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- 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 makes more sense than a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
“I Read Playboy for the Articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences When people behave in ways that might appear selfish, prejudiced, or perverted, they employ a host of strategies designed to justify questionable behavior with rational excuses: “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national election in 2007 and a... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of time flying back and forth... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
In Memoriam
HBS professor J. Keith Butters, an authority on finance and taxation, died in Lexington, Massachusetts, in December. He was 90. The Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Butters retired from the HBS faculty in 1986 after 43 years of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Navy veteran Dan Goldenberg (MBA 2003) was a week into life as a HBS student when the 9/11 attacks occurred, compelling him to join the Reserves just months after having left active duty. That defining moment inspired him to help others successfully reenter the working... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian defense giant Cobham Aviation... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students who traveled to Argentina and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
Kashmir Photo courtesy Sharjeel Kashmir It’s a beautiful morning in Jersey City as I stretch after my regular jog in Liberty State Park. I marvel that this is my neighborhood and my view. In front of me, the Hudson River lies at the feet of the iconic New York skyline.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
with the Year of the Snake just over a week old — students from the HBS Asia Business Club and Harvard Law School’s Asia Law Society hosted “Connecting Asia,” a two-day conference with some twelve hundred... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
L. Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, died on March 24. He was 88. Mace, a Minnesota native and graduate of the University of Minnesota (1934) and St. Paul College of Law (1936), was a member of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he obtained his federal high school diploma and enrolled at the University of Zurich, where he received... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
gathering held at the law offices of Morris, Manning & Martin in Atlanta. “We created this award this to recognize a Georgia entrepreneur who has done something significant in their field and made an impact along the way,” says the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those essays together in her new book,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) My entire career has been a series of pivots: a friend who convinced me to join his firm, a conversation on an airplane that turned into a new job, a middle-of-the-night idea that... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After. The book tells the story of a man... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these moments from her new book, Forged in Crisis, show, their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European Enterprises Development (EED).... View Details