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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Japan Research Center (JRC) hosted a virtual reunion in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the course. The reunion drew about 130 attendees, including 60 alumni who took the course as students and project partners. The Tōhoku region had just experienced yet another... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
explains. "The reason I often choose young protagonists is because that's the age when we make our first major choices and begin to discover the connections that reach far beyond our own lives." Barron and his family live in Boulder,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
innovative concepts and models (including The Managerial Target); and describes, interrelates, and integrates about 100 gurus’ major concepts, processes, models, and practices into a single unified practice of management model. The Speed... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
chain YogaWorks went public in August, valued at about $40 million; and Wanderlust’s yoga-focused festivals have attracted major crowds and major sponsors. But the bigger the business of yoga gets, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
out of MIT, A123’s patented rechargeable batteries include a breakthrough Nanophosphate powder that increases conductivity, providing higher power levels and longer battery life. With initial applications for commercial customers (such as Black & Decker), the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
the typical school admits students at age five, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. In the future, she hopes... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
and ranked. In February 2018, tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, purchased a majority stake in BestReviews.com. What inspired you to launch BestReviews.com? Ben:“We both grew up reading Consumer Reports regularly and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
You cite this decline as a root cause of widespread uneasiness among Americans about their future. What's gone wrong? One major structural change is that traditional mass production for a huge domestic market - the unique situation that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1999
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Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
sponsorships to Fortune 500 companies trying to reach our network of millions of K-12 students and their parents. new england TrophoMax® is the brand name for patented agricultural seed and leaf inoculants that have demonstrated crop yields and biomass increases of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one of those. IT? Business can’t function without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
majority signing a union pledge card. What’s wrong with secret ballot elections? If the Employee Free Choice Act were passed, workers who want a secret ballot election can have one. It’s just that the employer doesn’t have the right to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes
the same time turning Marxism upside down.” And one major way in which Schumpeter upended Marx was in his treatment of the controversial question of monopoly. Writing in the 1930s and early 1940s — a time of mounting public anger over... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
comes from headlines we’ve seen this year. The Economist ran a cover story on the supposed new majority standing of women in the professional workforce with a picture of Rosie the Riveter and the headline “We Did It!” The Atlantic... View Details