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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development of the now male-dominated tech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
you with a stinging rebuke. When informed that his demand for a 30 percent annual return was unrealistic, despite assurances to the contrary from his bank’s investment adviser, the retiree groused: “If you guys from Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
profitable, while areas such as emergency medicine and burn care are undervalued. In a consumer-driven system, market forces would operate to correct these disparities and create greater incentives for physicians to customize therapies and View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
with all these ideas that the company could be taken over and it’s not being well run and a lot of youthful naivete and enthusiasm. So in those first few months of '87 after my dad died, I'd study for my cases that night, go to class. But then in the evening, I'd be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
providing unrestricted HBS Fund support can have. “The deeper I got into the Harvard ecosystem, the more I saw the power of flexible funding,” he says, citing the School’s ability to develop hybrid classrooms in response to COVID-19 as an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
returning home to work in the family bank and, ultimately, found his own — Grand Bank in Grand Rapid. Stoddard sold Grand Bank in 2002, and he has since launched Grand Angels, an investment group aiming to help local entrepreneurs. After... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
opportunity “to add to the texture of a village of creative artists who have the power to influence a huge global audience.” A year later, with Blackhouse cofounders Ryan Tarpley and Carol Ann Shine, Diamond began developing and hosting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
valuable services and opportunities for alumni to connect regularly with each other and with the School? Alumni Career Management and Development what resources can the School use to support HBS alumni throughout the many stages of their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
I was overqualified," Royo says, "but they took a chance on me anyway." During his five-year tenure in that position, Royo played a significant role in developing a state-of-the-art intranet system at the School that provides those within... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
Twaalfhoven—brimming with energy—looks the part of a worldly and accomplished business leader. And well he should. He has founded and headed a wide assortment of small companies during a career of more than forty years, recently stepping down as chairman of N.V.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
in the midst of a digital revolution, Sandy Carter (MBA 1989) told attendees of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s annual conference during the November gathering in Cambridge. Carter, IBM’s general manager for ecosystem development... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
Sector, details the 1982 launch and subsequent development of Newman's Own. Based in Westport, Connecticut, the company began as "something of a lark," according to Newman, with two thousand bottles of vinaigrette salad dressing made from... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
schools, have benefited from setting up internal management development programs and facilities in order to maintain a qualified pool of employees. Replicating U.S. business practices in other countries is a... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross