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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
music director just a week before the flooding began, had led the orchestra only a handful of times as a guest conductor. Now, at 38, he was tasked with rebuilding an orchestra with no home or foreseeable income. When the orchestra took... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
thrive in the coming decades, the debate must not end there. A growing number of international business leaders agree. In 1990, nearly fifty heads of major corporations (including several HBS alumni), led by Swiss industrialist Stephan... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
initiative will feature songs that “echo the need for change but offer up the approach of love and unity as means to creating a better world.” DeShay also recently led a successful effort in his hometown of Bastrop, Texas, to remove... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
concept in cybersecurity—the venue is just different. “Chief information security officers used to meet once a week for a beer and say, ‘Hey, are you seeing this?’ ” says Anne Bonaparte (MBA 1988), CEO of cybersecurity firm BrightPoint who has previously View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
drought, the Great Depression, and a world war. He learned to work hard and thirsted for an education. Melvin married and fathered 12 children. His business careers led to his owning his own businesses, which thrived in small-town America... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the required resources, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
moment Vescovo was the only one who knew that—at 10,928 meters below sea level—he had traveled deeper than any human before him. His name would go in the record books alongside others who had pushed themselves to the extreme: Roald Amundsen, who View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
didn’t become the super-hot screenwriter after Fifth Estate. But I got the movie made, which led to more projects.” Last year he got the call for The Post, for example, because Steven Spielberg had read Spotlight and First Man. “We were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that happiness was the common reward for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters