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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force in our century.” Corporations... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Brown: Some of the Americans had a hard time catching on at first. We had accomplished international players like John Incledon (MBA 1965) from Wales, Jacques Ferrari (MBA 1965) from France, plus six or seven other Europeans and Australians. They were frustrated with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
he ran in 2009 in San Francisco, Houston, and New York, where he asked the audience about their attitudes on climate change, doing a “show-of-hands” survey. At that time, about half of the New York alumni who participated advocated for swift View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
times,” Datar notes, “it is our community that provides us comfort and our values that give us strength.” Note: Please see this page for guidance on contacting others in the HBS alumni network. HARVARD... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
school, which was long on tradition and rather short on market analysis, how to build its brand, think about the school as a business, and use the admissions process as a competitive advantage. “It goes back to what you learn in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
back to LaGuardia in time for an evening show, then 5 am back at Logan, stopping only for a coffee at Spangler before rushing to class. That was also the week she had her first cold call. But somehow, she says, she made it to her EC year. By then she had a taste for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
Conservation Society’s activist campaign against the whale hunt in Antarctica. Sea Shepherd vessels use aggressive tactics to stop damage to the sea and its creatures, especially the slaughter that Japanese whalers continue under a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
of what they do. And 5 percent are born with the instinct. There are things that they do and ways that they think that are intuitive. The rest of us could learn what these innovators do if somebody would just crawl inside their brains and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
2.8 percent to a total of $294 million. Commenting on the results, HBS chief financial officer Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) notes, “The combination of tight fiscal discipline and renewed revenue growth across the School allowed us to make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
pay for that speed, Kelleher says. The Question: Gold Rush Vinyl could reduce that time even further—to two weeks—if it solves supply chain bottlenecks in sourcing the record jackets and the plastic resin used in production. As a new... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
FAQ
Why is annual alumni support so important? The flexible, current-use support provided by annual gifts is essential to innovation at HBS, especially since 89 percent of the School’s endowment is restricted. Such contributions are used as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
cooperation were subsequently less trusting than parties that did not. “When we took the contracts away from those who had used them previously, trust diminished,” Malhotra noted. “In fact, there was less trust in those parties than there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth strategy View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
organizations to render aid. If any of our alumni are looking to connect with one another, we recommend using the Alumni Directory together with the secure Alumni Messaging Service to communicate (click on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter well. Perhaps more so than with any other economist, it is Schumpeter’s language, concepts, and intellectual architecture that business schools and businesspeople use today to define and understand what they do. Indeed, McCraw... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
Emeritus, passed away in October at the age of 78. His work focused on exploring the strategic uses of technology by corporations and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy, as well as the social... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
member of that class, suggested holding a series of concerts in the chapel to increase its use and persuaded Arthur Rishi, a 1990 graduate of Harvard College, to organize them. Each year since 1993, Rishi has arranged a series of 8–15... View Details