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- 01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
Management Committee, O’Neal is one of the firm’s top officers and is frequently mentioned as being on the shortlist to be the next chairman of the 150-year-old firm. “My father told me I wasn’t cut out for farm work,” says O’Neal, whose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
also includes a section about Germany's similar experience with Internet commercialization, as well as contributions from ten industry participants and observers. “Unless fundamental changes are made,” Mills says, “another bubble is a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
and the Harvard Kennedy School. The two-day event on the HBS campus drew 1,500 attendees from across the country for panels, workshops, a career fair, and the Pitch for Change business plan competition, where social entrepreneurs vie for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories, increase profits, and cut waste. Though much has changed over the ensuing century, the drive remains the same. “We aspire to be both rigorous... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
in doing more good with your limited time on the planet, and experience greater satisfaction in the process. Sales Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing By Frank V.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on data management, strategic consulting, and advanced analytics,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
(Harvard Business School Press) Information Markets: What Businesses Can Learn from Financial Innovation, by William J. Wilhelm, Jr., and Joseph D. Downing, is the finance professional’s must-have guide to understanding the changing role... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared belief among us that significant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Little did they know that their call for change would result in a legacy that would have lasting impact at the School. This year HBS is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the AASU by Clifford E. “Clif” Darden (MBA 1969,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
A CEO’s Guide to Planning a Return to the Office
- 23 Jul 2015
- News
How Pharma Can Offer More than Pills
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or recovers species. A subsidiary... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
"Wall Street in 1971 was not just subtly hostile toward women, it was blatantly so," says Havens-Hasty, who today sits at the helm of her own investment management company, Havens Advisors. Laughingly referring to herself in those days as... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
and a prominent addiction psychiatrist and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Research Program—explained the challenges to his son, whose background was in the video-game industry. In study after study, contingency View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06),... View Details