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- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the captains then got a bunch of crew. Morrell: Take the example of the Essex, the whaling boat whose story became the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The principal owners of the Essex invested in some repairs in the aging... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
School's education and research mission. "Today's general manager is operating in an information-inundated world," Clark elaborated recently. "We need to prepare our students to meet that challenge. We also need to take full advantage of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
explore a wide range of contemporary business issues and top management concerns. Beyond that, the program was aimed at giving these leaders the opportunity to reap the benefits of spending time with other top-level women executives. In a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
artists to fund a variety of projects, ranging from major site-specific installations to endeavors that support the entire creative ecosystem, such as the international professional journal for curators, The Exhibitionist. Evans, who lives in Boston with her classmate... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
time. What helps? A clear sense of purpose, yoga, centering prayer, and a strong network of support. That support can be from friends who understand and share your values (for me, my church community) or from professionals (a dementia specialist case View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
(MBA 2011). This year, the NextGen Angels, led by president Brett Gibson (MBA 2011), has invested further in its big idea: launching angel groups in New York (run by Kelsey Morgan [HBS 2011]), Chicago, Boston and Austin, growing to more... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
conversation that came up around the dinner table or regularly for any reason. I grew up in a single parent household for most of my youth, and so money was tight, it just wasn't something we discussed. And then later in life, as I got older and I started to View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
meeting the expectations of security analysts. What’s wrong with focusing on the short term? If you do it long enough, it will destroy long-term value. You stop investing in R&D, stop being innovative, stop expanding sales forces, stop... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
for investing are going to asset managers and portfolio companies that are cognizant of their broader societal impact. April White: There are three topics covered in the pledge: biased policing, ballot... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
thinking back to Professor Clay Christensen's Best of EC reflection when he called being a manager the most 'noble' profession, because you can have a direct and real impact on building a person's self-esteem. That insight impacts the way... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
representing pharma, energy, and investment discussed their responses, and those of other corporations, and the critical roles that partnerships and collaboration with US and other non-Ukrainian companies can play in supporting their... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus has led to relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber