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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
instead, just tried to do what was best for the company. Steve Gallagher: My student experience has directly informed how I think about the services I’m delivering. When I talk to my sectionmates at reunions, they ask me how things have View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm from 1984 to 2015 and continues to sit on its board. For the last half century, DeFehr has... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
“Professor Desai’s students and alumni who heard him for the first time pointed out his expert skill at communicating complex subjects in a simple and highly accessible way.” A question and answer session followed the November 11 talk, and the audience explored the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
School's first experience with its new Foundations module, Professor Steven C. Wheelwright, MBA Program chair and chair of the January cohort, notes, "Foundations is the first of many changes being incorporated into the MBA Program as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
awards from Advertising Age (2005) and Creativity (2004, 2005). In May, Hicks and the firm’s three partners were featured on the cover of BusinessWeek as “The Craziest Ad Guys in America.” Here, Hicks talks about the method in the madness of CP+B’s success. What has... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
business today. Our focus is on the development of ideas and the creation of programs and experiences that will enable leaders to be effective in a turbulent and changing global economy. To bring you up to date on our progress, I would... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
different departments. "NABCO was instrumental in changing the course of breast cancer screening, treatment, and care," she says. "Our physician and corporate partnerships to educate women replaced fear with facts. We helped craft and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Bold Idea Takes Off
when she won the Social Enterprise Pitch for Change business plan competition for Global Citizen Year (GCY), a nonprofit she envisioned to provide American teens with a “bridge year” between high school and college to work abroad. Ready... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the gap between initiating a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
start your own business?’ ” she recalls. “My answer was that I’m the person who sets the direction and gets things done, but I don’t have an idea for a business.” That changed when she reconnected with Mark, an old friend from Yale whom... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
now in the blizzard of bits and bytes being left behind today. In the wake of the Internet, what changes will the 50-year period show from 2000 to 2050 in how business is done, and what will it reflect about our society? We won’t be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
Advanced Management Program (AMP) and Program for Leadership Development (PLD). When I have had faculty from other schools sit in on classes I teach, they always comment that we are lucky at HBS to have such high-quality preparation and... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
professor at Pennsylvania State University. He quickly made his mark at HBS as an effective and highly regarded teacher in the MBA and Executive Education Programs, while also taking leadership roles in the administration of the School's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
and in September 2013 was named Australia’s first female Minister for Foreign Affairs, both positions she continued to hold after a sudden leadership shift in September 2015. Bishop’s diplomacy and savviness in negotiating this View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland. The merger put... View Details