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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Krishna Mahesh (MBA ’05) not only traveled the longest distance to arrive on campus for the final round of judging in the inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest, he also figured he had the longest shot at winning. The seven finalists,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
line managers and CEOs will find compelling. The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives, a completely new edition of the best-selling book by journalist Frances Cairncross... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Raw, Done Well
It's been five years since Michael Klein (MBA '82) has eaten anything cooked — not even tofu, which is made from cooked soybeans. “I've never felt better,” said Klein, who lives on about 800 calories per day, some 2,100 fewer than the intake generally recommended for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
organized and staying focused. Among other things, he recommends beating procrastination by working on large, overwhelming projects in small, finite periods of time; reviewing technology to make sure it’s not making more work; and cutting out small talk. View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
"Lots of companies were buying the same products for different prices, and we were trying to make it more transparent. The problem was that the product users did not want transparency. We approached it like consultants, but I learned that any View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb,... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: After leaving England for Australia in late 1830s, John Fairfax began building a media empire. At its height, John Fairfax Limited held the Australian equivalent of the View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis putt-putt by, pausing occasionally to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? It’s become a lot more cognitive and brain-scientific. Neuroscience is a relatively View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
diverse personalities.” Travel trio: Exercise right off the plane. Find really great coffee in a new café. Bring lavender oil: “If I put some on my pillow, I have a sense of being at home.” Game changer: Launch X, an accelerator program... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
Achievement Award winner, is the chairman and CEO of Mitchell, Titus & Co., the country's largest minority-controlled CPA firm. One sister, Tracey, is an attorney, and another, Robbin (MBA '92), works for McKinsey & Co. With his mother,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
birth, or place of birth. “This was a particularly difficult database to put together because there is no public source of CEO tenure data prior to 1978,” says Mayo, who spent countless hours in Baker Library working with research... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
elective, as well as a doctoral seminar on Research Design and Measurement. Silk's earlier work focused on developing models and measurement systems to support decisions in the area of new product development and marketing communications.... View Details