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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
collaboration, noting that there is a "proven demand for women in business." A year later, Bulletin readers learned that HBS would "provide most of the faculty and instructional material and will be responsible for the [Radcliffe] Program's educational policy." (As the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Christopher Columbus were, in a sense, venture capitalists. But it wasn’t until the second half of the 20th century that venture financing became a professional, large-scale industry. And the man who led that transformation was Georges Doriot. I can’t recall exactly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy of MCC In effect from 2007 to 2012, the five-year, $547 million... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s hydroelectric power potential. It’s a business he knows well. In 1984, as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Standing Rock. Photographers arrested at the anti-Trump protest down in DC. Artists harassed. An artist named Illma Gore who did a famous naked Trump portrait, and a bunch of lawyers came after her. The clients behind those lawyers, it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
boring stuff are gathered for them. “The name of the company, TakeOff—to us it means freedom,” says Aguerrevere. Illustration by Peter Hoey 1.Using a smartphone or web browser, you select from as many as 50,000 items—basically the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
is a big misconception a lot of people have. People assume that because, the United States, we have high school, college basketball, then it leads to the pros, that the same system is in effect pretty much throughout the world. Well,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
to "double the vase life," she says, of regular florist fare. The idea for the business (whose name refers to botanical flower terms) first sprouted, Owades recalls, "when I noticed that the wholesale flower market in San Francisco seemed... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
you instantly to an anonymous chat with someone new, and you can choose to share your name or photo if you become comfortable. We think the best way to cure loneliness is to give you someone relevant to talk to at any time. And we’ve... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
markets around the globe: What can Silicon Valley learn from your experiences? And what happens if the Startup Capital of the World ignores these lessons? READ MORE Nicole Poindexter: My name is Nicole Poindexter (MBA 1997) and I'm the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ MORE Old Meets New: A Dinosaur View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial leaders, all responsible for manning... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment of continual change,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
several MIT professors, I cofounded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, a technology company where I served as chairman and president until I earned my DBA and joined the HBS faculty in 1992. It was really my time with that company that... View Details