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- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
knows his dual-track career is an anomaly. Most people spend decades in business and then, after they retire, turn to charitable work. DeFehr’s advice: “Don’t wait. To do your best work, you have to do it throughout your life.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Banking Group, prefaced his opening address on Friday evening with a moving account of his return to Lower Manhattan following the destruction of Citigroup's offices at 7 World Financial Center. Attendees then View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
globalize, the financial picture grew worse. One problem: The company's growing complexity was choking it. Adding more bricks made products harder to assemble, forecasts harder to determine, and inventory more difficult to manage. The toy maker found itself needing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
performance, the ability to focus on the future, and a commitment to its people, culture, and values. “We need companies that perform with integrity,” he said. “Performance is the only thing that will turn the stock market around; it's... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
SAAS solution for small businesses to introduce machine learning by text to their business finances’ (or something like that). The folks we met on Shark Tank made things like a container for your sandwich so it doesn’t get soggy in a cooler or a bed that View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, a position GM has held for more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditions with you. This guide gives tips about turning everyday ingredients and products into a simple, two-minute ritual in four steps: purify, polish, prep, and nourish. But this book is also about a lifestyle, how you eat and sleep.... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
turn this into a real organization, and you fast forward to today and it’s about 10 million [users]. “At minimum, what Khan Academy gives a student is an outlook. It gives them a second opinion. Now they have another place to go, a place... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
it may be that the music industry will once again turn to new technology to amp itself up, much as it did in the early 1980s with the CD. Last year, entertainment companies experimented with the enhanced CD (ECD), a compact disc format... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
total. The final frontier, it turns out, might just be the last great market. The Orbital Effect David Thompson President and CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
mind.” “Aggressive deficit spending may help in a number of ways, but it won’t solve the tangible barriers to production and consumption that the pandemic has imposed. So it won’t be enough to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
her own life as well from the lives of the most incredible and inspiring women on Mogul. How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses by Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) McGraw-Hill Education Do you have an idea... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
But they didn’t turn them off, and because that data had been stored in the memory of the computer—not necessarily on it—it was on the hard drives, but wiped. Seeing their memory, hot and live, the malware finds it and says, “Oh, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
idea is nothing. No one understood this better than the HBS alumni who pioneered the venture capital industry. Decades ago, these individuals played a major role in creating fledgling companies that in turn shaped cutting-edge industries... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
modest and unassuming, is speaking, as he often does to young people, about the virtues of hard work, perseverance, and other old-fashioned values. When the Denver Broncos All-Pro running back finishes his talk, it's time to turn the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
times) to help cleaning supervisors deploy resources as and when needed. “This shift in approach—from scheduled maintenance toward dynamic, on-demand cleaning—will be progressively applied to other areas of airport maintenance, and in View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
threads in Simons’s career. He grew up in a musical family, studied piano and trumpet, and chose a joint music and neuroscience major at Harvard College to investigate the physiologic basis of music therapy. “That turned out to be a space... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg