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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management Program, and a doctoral seminar on the Theory of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
included in a late-stage trial a component that is publicly available,” explains Blum. He notes that studies of the samples by independent researchers could help identify biomarkers for the disease’s causes and progression. Not Just Science and Business With degrees in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
instruments and implants have revolutionized the way surgeons treat the traumas that can afflict the human skeleton. While successfully navigating the complexities of this highly competitive industry, Wyss, a lifelong hiker, has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Radcliffe student, to Cambridge, where he enrolled at Harvard College. After attending HBS and earning a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota, Goldberg joined the HBS faculty in 1955. In 1957, he and HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
building of closer relationships among those of you who - like our faculty - come from many diverse countries. The issues facing Asia today are too big and complex for any single person, university faculty, or company to comprehend fully.... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
hero or something in school today,” the third-place finisher boasted to his hometown paper. That was the dynamic that would define competitive video gaming for nearly two decades, even as technology changed the pace and complexity of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on-the-ground reporting and an understanding of war’s complexities to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from the Army to serve in this highly specialized and challenging role. Faculty Books What Great Service Leaders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard Stadium. Rob Sundy describes himself... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the economic downturn and a collapse... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
to actually spend it, so no one’s playing the game, which then destroys value. And if it’s too liquid, then there’s suddenly too much of it in play, it loses all the value, and the game’s economic system collapses. It’s a very careful... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
made to bear the full cost of that decision. So that's another indirect way whereby we can use our economic influence to help businesses and individuals make proper, fully, risk-aware decisions. DM: But it also sounds like there's a point... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
they’re keen to give back. The vast majority of them are seen as statesmen and stateswomen who have contributed to the building blocks of their particular society, both commercial successes and significant not-for-profit entrepreneurs. I did a year in the MBA program... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is still an industry, with economic inputs, business models, competitors, value chains, and a dynamic, challenging marketplace. Gaylin examines each of the major segments (Broadway, regional theater, orchestra, opera, and dance) along... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
particularly business travelers, will appreciate the efficiency of this scenario. But can “air taxis” really take off in the current economic climate? Will companies economize by placing an even greater... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
have been hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man behind the story and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
general management. It was a school that was associated with developing leaders who would go out and run large, complex enterprises or build new entrepreneurial ventures. It was about educating the kind of people whom I always had... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
giant and added to his growing expertise in what it takes to “compete for a share of the entertainment hour” — a talent his beloved hometown baseball team, in dire economic straits back in San Francisco, sorely needed. Bye-Bye Giants Top:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
that were presented and discussed at the colloquium. Globalization’s complexities and nuances, compared with twenty years ago, were analyzed and debated with a rigor and enthusiasm that doubtless would have pleased Ted Levitt immensely.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
found myself thinking that unlike a career in applied math, where most of the work is pretty esoteric, if I could really make a breakthrough in economics, I might affect an awful lot of people. So, much to the chagrin of both my family and my advisors at Cal Tech, I... View Details