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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
cogent comment of the third panelist, HBS professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, that we have been choosing “takers” instead of “givers” as our government leaders, Gergen took issue with Kanter’s aforementioned critique of... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Illustration by Jose Ortega Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
organizations that embedded globalization and the differences that exist across countries into the heart of its model. It’s set up with the idea of unlocking value by leveraging the opportunities created by... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
compete in this brave new world. The transformation ignited by the Internet is creating a new paradigm in the financial services industry, characterized by surprising business structures. "The competitive... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Washington University. "Now think of the magic of Avatar in 3D. In that interim period, between 1977 and 2010, the technological advances in moviemaking were unbelievable. But that was not at all matched by any change in the concession... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
director of Indigo Agriculture. (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) We have the technology, the capability, and the talent to combat climate change and save the world. The obstacles? Big money in politics, aversion to change, and inadequate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president, Jackson Street Partners, San Francisco, California A well-known saying attributed to Confucius identifies the essence of life's journey: By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
April this year for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And that was very much overshadowed by the new global crisis of the pandemic. It affected us in that we did a much smaller launch of our new version of the app. We still put our... View Details
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1.18 FIELD Global Capstone - MBA
with their assigned Global Partner organization. The agreement is designed to facilitate the educational objectives of the course, by giving the Global Partner reasonable assurances (about confidentiality, for example) that will encourage... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
employees. This seems both ill-considered and unlikely to work. I doubt this bill will become law. But when capitalism goes unchecked and unexamined, and management is seduced by a narrow and myopic... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
Fifty years ago, a new course was introduced at HBS to provide students with a better understanding of the problems of starting and managing new businesses. The Management of New Enterprises, developed and taught by Professor Myles L.... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
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Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
words to share how outraged and disappointed I am by the continued extrajudicial killing of Black men and women. I feel a deep tension as I am inspired by the energy and passion of those that have gathered... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
we actually use it. A shipper driven by overnight deliveries may never before have understood the importance of date-sensitive systems as they relate to leasing, for example. More important, we all are discovering that in the Y2K context,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details