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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
multiply it by 0.9. That’s your indoor age. If we are lucky enough to live to 80, most of us will have spent 72 years inside! We spend nearly all of our time indoors—so much so that Velux, a Danish company that specializes in skylights,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
June 2003. Gregory H. Fairbank (HBS ’04), Captain, U.S. Army Defense Intelligence Agency counterterrorism analyst in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Served from November 2001 to November 2002. Jake H. Heller (HBS ’05), Lieutenant,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
industry in a varied portfolio of investments (Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding are a special interest) for a man who has made a reputation based on “his philanthropy, a keen intellect, and a tough business manner.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
flash-sale site Gilt Groupe. Today, luxury shoppers, once uncertain about the Internet, see it as a way of “accessing special things,” Magnúsdóttir says. More Retail Revolutions Sparking the Flash Sale Gilt Groupe founders Alexis Maybank... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
specializing in economic issues, has examined the comparative productivity of nations and completed numerous country studies. Gupta acknowledges that he himself was anything but worldly when he received his undergraduate degree in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
popular adaptive learning companies, specializing in math .Across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, DreamBox serves nearly 3 million students and 120,000 teachers. Today, the company is announcing $130 million in growth equity funding from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers to an open spot. Daniela Rus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We see a set of improving... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
He began as president and chief operating officer in 1989 and led the company as CEO from 1991 until 2001, serving as chairman of the board from 1996–2002. He returned to HBS as a member of the faculty in 2004. “My whole goal in life is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
outsourcing for businesses. The Massachusetts Port Authority operates Logan International Airport, two regional airports in the Boston area, the Port of Boston, and the Tobin Memorial Bridge, which connects downtown with the northern... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
working with his father, Eugene, at the firm the elder Stewart had founded in 1958. Now under Terry Stewart's leadership, the firm operates globally, with a special interest in Eastern Europe and the former... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
becomes an unlikely entrepreneur, supporting her siblings when her father and brother are forced to flee the Taliban. Ashley’s War (2015) centers on the US military’s Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program that inserted women alongside View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana in February 2017 to help open... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
book, I take you to places as far as Pyongyang, which you might say very developing country, and very little if any startup ecosystem. But also countries like Zambia, and Lusaka, its capital, as well. There's places like Bangalore, which have very developed startup... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
and power generation. Asked to describe an investment that shows the Helios paradigm at work, Lawani, who divides his time equally between London and Africa, points to Kenya. "Several years ago," he explains, "we invested in a bank called Equity Bank that View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
hoping to test out a special area of interest or potential career path. Others looked abroad, pursuing their interests in solving business and social problems in the developing world. Canadians Alyza Keshavjee and Ameel Somani spent their... View Details