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- 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
Keywords: Dean
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
it's news to no one that moviegoers have many more entertainment options that don't involve getting in a car and driving to a theater. A weekly or monthly outing to the movies is no longer as prevalent. Stream a movie from Netflix on your... View Details
- 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
- 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 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
a few big hospitals or financial services firms. Think of it as a private LinkedIn group or a Google circle. “Another analogue is a weather map,” says Bonaparte. “We’re allowing you to get ahead of the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
away,” says Todd Mulder, food services general manager for Restaurant Associates, the hospitality firm that manages all campus food operations. “They are impressed that you can get sushi made to order,” in... 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 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
abandoned state hospital site in the city's Mattapan neighborhood. I became involved in what were for me new aspects of conservation, education, and state and local politics. Massachusetts is a world away from Central America, but the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
compensate for carbon emitted elsewhere. Patagonia Sur partners with corporations, families, and academic institutions to offset all or a portion of their carbon footprint. HBS grads attending the 2011 Spring Reunion can purchase carbon offsets from Patagonia Sur to... View Details
- 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 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a way to sell information to bond traders—information for which those traders’ companies were then paying $20,000 a month. Parker thought he could provide a better View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant.... View Details
- 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 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
world of the HBS classroom, a dynamic environment where faculty display their talent not only for presenting new ideas and breathing fresh life into traditional academics, but also for drawing out the wisdom and experience of everyone... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young