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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
political dynasties, stretching into the uppermost boughs of his family tree. His father, Constantine Mitsotakis, held a number of government roles before serving as prime minister from 1990 to 1993. (Kyriakos spent those years earning a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
unless you solve the energy piece of it.” The recipients of those funds vary, says Goodwin. “There’s a number of reasons people come into the space. We have the small local operator who has a vision and a past, and wants to change the way... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
phoned the home office with the news, his colleagues were in disbelief. “It was incredulous joy. It really was, because there was a sense that we’d never get these things done—we’d never reach a consensus.” (Eamer stresses that the success was due to a large View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
was fail.” Under Zuckerman, he notes, the Atlantic was losing about $3.5 million annually; Bradley saw those losses balloon as high as $10 million. “That’s a lot of money to lose every year, and it’s unprincipled,” he says. “A question of conscience comes in when you... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
overlooked, giant industry that is at the base of society. Water is essential to our ability to exist,” he says. “[The sector] employs 10 times the number of people who are employed in oil and gas.” Water problems have also become more... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking English, she focused on math instead.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
execution with ambition, I have no doubt we will make the most of our strategic priorities—for our customers and our business. What are the numbers that you pay the most attention? What data helps you get a picture of a store’s overall... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
given that none of these ventures will work if the clubs can't reach their constituencies. Online Services for Alumni This committee's ambitious goal was to increase dramatically the number of alumni with e-mail addresses on file with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
Indeed, from low wages to limited health-care coverage, the company has a number of issues to tackle. But to characterize Wal-Mart’s success simply in terms of its exploitation of its workforce, as many of the company’s most ferocious... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a number of local NGOs and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
just a numbers cruncher. That was the first time I had ever considered my Harvard MBA to be a career liability. Producing a television show well requires a surprising amount of general management expertise. So much of the job is analyzing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
paperwork. An all-time high of 10,382 applications arrived for the Class of 2004. Dewey characterizes that number as a spike influenced by poor economic conditions that unleashed pentup demand. The Admissions Office received 8,526... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Mills: Her Excellent Adventures Amy S. Langer: Fighting the Good Fight Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.: Improving the Coop's Numbers Andrew H. Tisch: Family Matters View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
tried to buy the supplies back. When that failed, he gave his team permission to steal when they needed to. There was no other way to survive. Their numbers had dwindled. Many of the American airmen who had arrived in Banská Bystrica in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
affinity for the game,” he said. The league has partnered with a number of investors including former players Dikembe Mutombo, Junior Bridgeman, Luol Deng, Grant Hill, and Joakim Noah, as well as the Nigeria-based Helios Fairfax Partners... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that just crunching numbers wasn’t... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
patterns that could signify an attack or a system failure. A fundamental component of the theory is how the brain represents information differently than computers do. Data entered into a computer—whether numbers or words—need to be... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Management Déjà Vu,” by asking his audience about their concerns, as owners and operators of small businesses. A number of issues were voiced: sales and marketing; cash flow; hiring and motivating employees; smooth succession within... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
society. As president of OpenTec, an e-learning enterprise, he sees the Internet as a democratizing force that could improve his country’s competitiveness in the world economy. “Mexico has a huge number of people who work in the informal... View Details