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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation last... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
Following the successful launch of research centers in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and Buenos Aires, HBS has opened the European Research Center (ERC) in Paris. With Vincent Dessain (MBA '87) serving as executive director, the ERC will continue the School's initiative... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
Second-year students in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective MBA course Managing Product Development presented their final projects at the tenth annual Design Fair in December. Among those who displayed their wares at the Spangler Center were Calona Chan, Mira... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in Islamic countries, the sensitivities can be even greater.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition while meeting the challenges of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
In early April, nearly ninety HBS faculty members came together for a half-day symposium on “Strategy, Values, and Governance in the Rise and Fall of Enron.” Organized by the School's Division of Research and moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
A snapshot of the MBA Program’s newest students reveals that this year’s incoming class — chosen from a pool of 6,552 applicants — represents a select, diverse group of individuals hailing from 68 countries around the world. “We’re excited to have this very talented... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
New Corporate Leader Program
Executive Education has created The Corporate Leader program to focus exclusively on the most important challenges facing the corporate office. Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration, is the program’s faculty chair. Scheduled for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all should learn from failure, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
As a business, HBS had a banner year in fiscal 2006. Demand for the School’s Executive Education programs was up, sales of cases and other print products grew, the MBA Program attained a 91 percent admissions yield, and total revenue advanced by 11.2 percent, exceeding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
Before this year’s class of MBAs departed Soldiers Field, they sat down one more time and prepared for a ritual now in its fourth year. For this “Cap-stone Class,” all graduating students read an annually updated case that compares data from their own class with that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering entertainment giant. Gold and Disney’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
GERALD SCHWARTZ with art lovers Supriya Menon (MBA '05) and Avid Larizadeh (HBS '06). View art purchased on this year's trip When Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) attended HBS, the walls of Aldrich Hall were bare. As a longtime art lover who began collecting in his early 20s,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
When I left Soldiers Field thirty years ago as a young MBA, I never dreamed that I’d be back one day as president of the Alumni Association. But here I am at the beginning of a two-year term as head of a very dynamic alumni group — nearly forty strong — dedicated to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Porter Ranks Competitiveness
The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine places to No. 64 out of 121... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
More Newsmakers
Each week, the Alumni website features stories about HBS alumni, in addition to those that appear in this section of the Bulletin. Recent alumni profiled include: Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996) Blake Hall (MBA 2010) Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) For more alumni in the news,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative
TOKYO VISIT: Dean Clark and wife, Sue, with Masako Egawa (MBA '86), Japan Research Office executive director, and University of Tokyo professor Takahiro Fujimoto (DBA '89). Photo Courtesy Japan Research Office The School’s six-year-old Global Initiative, with research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
On the most basic level, job interviews provide an opportunity for companies and potential employees to exchange essential information. But in today’s crowded job market, applicants who really want to outclass the competition need to go well beyond the basics. Timothy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Last Look
Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact us at bulletin@hbs.edu, or HBS Alumni Bulletin, Teele Hall 361, Soldiers Field,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Campaign Success Continues
The generous gift for the School’s doctoral programs fulfills an important need at HBS and will have a far-reaching impact. “We are grateful to the thousands of alumni and friends who generously have supported the campaign,” said Dean Kim B. Clark, noting that many... View Details