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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
getting his MBA in 1963, Platt joined Doriot at ARD. I was shocked and very upset. Doriot continued, “Did you know of any problems with investments or circumstances of his employment at ARD that might have caused him to take his own... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) Wiley In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on Very Long-Term Investing presents... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
AACE Foods Founder, LEAP Africa At 16, when I moved to the United States to complete high school and start college, I was shocked to learn that Africa's global face was a hungry child. I recoiled against this stereotype, and it propelled... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
someone that can buy the company. There's less proven exit markets. Second, in more emerging market contexts, there are more macroeconomic shocks and the volatility that comes with that. Then third is this culture of entrepreneurship that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
original spiritual underpinnings were lost in translation, Americans who embraced yoga brought their own desires for self-discovery and community to the mat. Yoga was a decidedly counterculture activity; guru Swami Satchidananda, his billowing white beard a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 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
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
was that the “Russians” discovered this dysfunctional truth space and then took advantage of it. I think that whoever was responsible must have been absolutely shocked by the outcome. There was not, as far as we can tell, a plan to put... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
male and much whiter. I wasn’t really shocked until I found out the actual number of African American students. I must admit I was really disappointed in Harvard. Its reputation was that it was the best of the country’s educational... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
When you become an entrepreneur, a woman entrepreneur, you basically are entering the single digits club, and it's a shock. It was a shock to me to go to meetings or dinners or whatever the case may be and just constantly be surrounded by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
shock of the Kennedy assassination and the accession of President Johnson. And increasingly, there was the problem of Southeast Asia. McNamara says he at first accepted the Cold War–based “domino theory” that if South Vietnam fell to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
three of us that if we didn't get the job, we had to leave the company. Which was really shocking to me. You know, I, I kind of said, "Look, you're kidding, right?" DM: [laughs] JI: He said, "No, that's the way I want it." And I said,... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
opened my eyes to what one could do.” Straight shooter: “My first assignment at Xerox was to help take the company into China. When the chairman announced in the press what we were doing, I chastised him and said that was not something he should have done. Everyone was... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
together and helped each other cope with the loss, the pain, and the shock to our everyday lives. When New Yorkers join together, nothing can stop us." But for most New Yorkers, that resolve would not come immediately - the View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
was not shocked by that figure, but its underlying components gave us a new perspective. Survey respondents were more pessimistic about the future of American living standards than about companies’ prospects. Alumni appear to believe that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who foretold the timing as auspicious.... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details