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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice to new MBAs is to keep your... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
successful,” he added. Rane also gives the late HBS professor Marty Marshall much credit for what became the Yella Fella ads, since he “convinced me that consumers needed to connect with the owner of the business, someone whose word they... View Details
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Marlene Krauss
Chelsea Hotel in New York. Some things I did early (I started HBS in 1965 at age 20), some I did late (I started medical school at age 30 and had twins at age 53), and some things I missed out on because I had no talent (lead singer in a... View Details
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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
apply This program is held virtually with Harvard Business School and is open by application only. Please check back in late November 2020 for information on the February 2021 Residents & Fellows course. For more information about this... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
breakthrough-device designation from the FDA. This puts OsteoBoost on a fast track for approval following analysis of two clinical trials currently in progress, with a target launch date of early 2023. Heard: “I wanted to work on a big problem where, if we achieved... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Ratan Tata, AMP 71, 1975
India-based Tata Group. The gift is helping to fund a new Executive Education building, now well on its way for completion in late 2013, along the eastern edge of the HBS campus. The arc-shaped Tata Hall will feature 161,000 square feet... View Details
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
immediate steps to tighten quality assurance requirements on Mattel's suppliers. There has been no effort to duck behind blaming suppliers and distributors or, even worse, consumers—as Audi attempted to do in the famous unintended acceleration recall of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
moving to part time for family or lifestyle reasons. In late career, we often see people who are downshifting or exploring the nonprofit sector. There’s also a spike two or three years after graduation, when young managers often realize... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Stormy Weather
Photos by Stuart Cahill and Neal Hamberg Wet weather and bleak financial headlines did nothing to dampen the spirits of nearly 2,000 alumni and guests who traveled to campus in late September to attend reunion celebrations for the MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Campaign News
Campaign Chair Dick Spangler addressed the audience at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. More campaign photos. Photographs by Steve Boljonis, Richard Morgenstein, and Todd Rosenberg As of late April, thanks in part to two extraordinary... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
ago also provided investor-friendly provisions that protected shareholders from abuses by large shareholders, managers, and other corporate insiders—protections that were even better than what was offered in the country in the late 20th... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Coach for Life
indicators, such as loose balls won and charges drawn, rather than shooting percentage and rebounds. CORRECTION: In the March issue, the remembrance of Professor Emeritus Thomas McCraw misnamed his mentor. It was the late HBS professor... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health CareIn a 2009 interview, the 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 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963)—experiential learning has been incorporated into 11 extended field courses in the Elective Curriculum this year, attracting about two-thirds of the Class of 2016. Six of these courses involve... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Field—approached the tricky subject of branding. The concept of branding as we understand it today was just barely entering business parlance at the time of Heinz and Field, who came to prominence in the late nineteenth century, Koehn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
child announces that he has a big report or project due the next day and he hasn’t started it. The grade on that report does matter, and no one wants to see his child get poor marks. Panic ensues. What should a parent do? Not only will many parents stay up View Details
- 20 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to be a Customer
How-to books targeting customers often focus on how to game the system, how to return the cocktail dress on Monday after you've worn it once on Saturday, how to exploit manufacturer warranties and satisfaction guarantees (often, ironically, at the expense of other... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch