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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
basketball and had no talent for that whatsoever. When Jim said we should go out and throw a rugby ball around, I said, "Great!" And so we did, and others came out, and soon we were playing a little pickup game. 1963 Jim Johnstone and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
walks of life. He generously thanked people for their efforts on behalf of the School, sending handwritten notes in distinctive longhand. McArthur also was there for members of the HBS community in good and bad times. He often appeared unannounced in View Details
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light explained, “Just as a View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
enabling him to get his kicks out of helping others and the School in ways many of us will never know.” — HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett “Howard has contributed so much to the School in so many different roles — as the godfather of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Some, like Bancel, predict that a vaccine approved for emergency use could be administered to hospital workers as early as this fall. Others, like Bingham, are quick to point out that even after vaccines are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Last Christmas, many of the headlines spelled out trouble in toyland. FAO Schwarz sunk deeper into bankruptcy, KB Toys was having a hard time making ends meet (and filed Chapter 11 in January), and Toys “R” Us, which closed its Kids “R”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
said I would risk that....After this he put out his hand and said, ‘Very well, I’ll take you.’” When Shackleton reviewed the qualifications of applicants who had previously been to the Antarctic, he looked for perseverance and stamina.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
planet." "There are certain images that come up with five-star service that I just don't like: telephones, swimming pools, valet service," Evanson says from his 500-acre island. "It's a way of differentiating our product, which is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
call out “bingo.” The faculty frowned on this disruption. To meet this challenge, the rules were again changed, and you had to be called on and work the word “bingo” into your participation in the classroom discussion. Some efforts were a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
“I came to the conclusion pretty quickly that I’d rather be on the business side than on the lawyer side because the lawyer was essentially a service arm to the business side, and the business side was really making the decisions,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
out directly to the orchestra. “Thank you,” they shouted. “Thank you.” “I can’t keep on fooling myself,” Prieto thought. It was shortly after his graduation from HBS, and he was sitting in the audience at Lincoln Center, listening to the... View Details