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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm founded in 1937 by his... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Courtesy Bob Rosenberg Dan Morrell: In 1963, Bob Rosenberg’s (MBA 1963) father asked him to become CEO of Universal Food Systems—which included a... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
intriguing new book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (Twelve), written by Dan Senor (MBA ’01) and Saul Singer, a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. Most Israelis in their late teens... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Entrepreneurship Association Forms
The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship recently launched the HBS Entrepreneurial Alumni Association, chaired by three prominent entrepreneurs: Joy Covey (MBA/JD ’90), Charles Richard Reese (MBA ’74), and View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was never View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
public." Vasella decided to leave the practice of medicine because he wanted to explore areas that would enable him to have a more far-reaching impact on the world. "Leading a global pharmaceutical company like Novartis has been the perfect opportunity for doing that,"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on... View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Navy veteran Dan Goldenberg (MBA 2003) was a week into life as a HBS student when the 9/11 attacks occurred, compelling him to join the Reserves just months after having left active duty. That defining moment inspired him to help others... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
Image credit: Dan Bejar ALUMNI One Paramount Priority Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) on how to preserve the republic after the election A More Perfect Union America’s faith in democracy is fading. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001) is leading a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
Stephen Moret has long been driven by a passion for advocacy and leadership. As copresident of the HBS Student Association (SA), Moret created an online “Student Issues Poll” as a way to bridge the communication gap between students, the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and complexity of simulations in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
precisely the tools with which to make that jump—first, in 2005, into the role of CEO of the newly formed Autism Speaks, a science and advocacy organization founded by her former NBC boss Bob Wright, and later, in forming her own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Making Your Presence Felt by Sean Silverthorne Now trumpeted by popular writer Susan Cain as the “high priestess of self-confidence for the self-doubting,” Associate Professor Amy Cuddy nevertheless crumbled... View Details