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- 01 Apr 2000
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New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
automobiles, and airlines," says Curator Laura Linard, director of historical collections at Baker Library. The period also corresponds to the rise of graduate business schools, including HBS (founded in 1908), which were established to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
recap by the authors follows each account, noting the important principles it illustrates. Exercises are also included to spur creative thinking. The Heart of Change is a helpful package of fresh ideas for those looking to break new... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
regularly to Europe. “We will all miss his wise counsel, eloquent speeches, humor, generosity, and friendship,” said Laura Moon. In addition to his wife, Julie, Uyterhoeven is survived by four daughters,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
middle ground of companies that employ 50 to 100 people — somewhere between the nonprofit that would get help from USAID and bigger, for-profit firms served by traditional consulting companies.” For his project, Barry teamed up with... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Africa, an arts and handicrafts cooperative that empowers women to rise out of poverty by selling their own crafts. Another team created a syllabus for teaching entrepreneurship for Mission Schools International, an organization founded... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard. In a new multimedia case, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” by HBS assistant professors Michael... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
findings, which substantiated my insight about Soviet decision-making, were published in Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises (Harvard Business Press, 1990) and simultaneously in Russia by our Soviet... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
(1981), and Joseph Yam, Chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. In November, HBSA-HK celebrated its 24th anniversary at a DSF with guest speaker Laura Cha (AMP 159), vi ce chairman of the China Securities Regulatory... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxim Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine (McGraw HIll) Were it not for the years HBS assistant... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
next project, in collaboration with Laura Nash of Harvard Divinity School, is a book on the role of institutional religion in helping businesspeople to integrate spirituality and work. by Nancy O. Perry Down... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Initiative (SEI), they did just that. "Even the funding broke new ground," notes former SEI director Laura Moon. "John Whitehead provided staged investments based on meeting certain milestones. We now call that venture philanthropy." The... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Illustration by Eduardo Recife The large tome looks its age, which is roughly 160 years old. Bound in leather, an average page, of which there are about 800 in the volume, includes almost 100 eye-blurring lines of pen-and-ink script. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
Palepu's own research has made them acutely aware of how critical a worldwide perspective can be. “It's a lot more work to build globally robust ideas,” Palepu remarks, “but by encouraging our faculty to do this, we can develop more... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Blessings, both by Rachel Remen, Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand, and Real World Photoshop 6, by David Blatner. Biggest disappointment That Ann... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
Schwartz (MBA 1978) MissionPoint Capital Partners Norwalk, Connecticut Clean energy, energy efficiency, and environmental private equity Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) The Artemis Project San Francisco, California Consulting practice dedicated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Enterprises were over, and was very sorry about that," he recalls. "But that was superseded by my elation that East German people would be freed from the horrible yoke and terror of the Soviet system." For its part, as the world's leading... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
exploitative capitalists, the student was amazed by Yang's talk. “When I said it didn't have to be that way, it was a revelation to her,” said Yang. As part of the School's Leadership and Values Initiative, Yang and three other honorees... View Details