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- 01 Jun 2012
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Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
an early anecdote in Pakistan that has stayed with her. A 5-year-old boy came late to school in tears. Though his father told him to work in the fields, the boy really wanted to go to school. “The day before, his father had beat him up,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
and corporate battles that he witnessed in the nearly six decades of his career. He replays his two stints—in the late 1980s and the early 1990s—as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation, and offers many... View Details
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Harvard Business School
the country during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Harvard Crimson , March 11, 1968. Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. © 2014 The Harvard Crimson, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Read Full Article The... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
Returning to the place where their HBS experience began, students in the MBA Class of 2015 convened with sectionmates in their first-year classrooms in late April to participate in an innovative new capstone course. Bridges, part of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
portable digital media device, designed to challenge Apple’s wildly successful iPod, to market too late? Without hesitation, Ballmer candidly replied, “Sure, it’s too late” — an admission greeted with approving applause. But that turned out to be only half the answer.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
history. For two days in late May, representatives from the School’s extensive network of alumni clubs convened on campus to exchange ideas, participate in case discussions with faculty, and learn about AlumniMagnet, a new... View Details
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Arnaud Karsenti
I am excited for a life of windsurfing over choppy waters at break-neck speeds, thinking about the next challenge ahead. For an entrepreneur, the bar of success is constantly rising. Which is exactly why it's 6:15 AM and I'm already late... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
The Road to Racial Equity
John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) In late October, Willy Walker (MBA 1995) hosted John Rice (MBA 1992) as a guest on the Walker Webcast interview series to talk about family, the lived reality of racism, and how to drive diversity... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
openly explores his difficult relationship with his late father and how alcoholism has affected him and generations of his family. He also examines these issues in a film, Carnauba: A Son’s Memoir, that aired on the Hallmark Channel in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
academic and residence building for the School’s Executive Education programs, began in early December on a site between Kresge Hall and Soldiers Field Road. When completed in late 2013, the 150,000-square-foot building will provide 179... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
SheenHarvard Business School Case 210-058 After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Helping the Unemployed Find Work and Self-Esteem
In the late 1990s, when the UK recruitment firm started in 1960 by his father, Sir Alec Reed, won a government contract to provide welfare-to-work employment services, James Reed (MBA 1990) knew success would require some innovative... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
also a more heartfelt inspiration behind Popa’s gift. His late mother, Florina, a nuclear engineer in Romania, had always wanted him to be a geneticist. “This gift,” he says, “is a way I can begin to honor her dreams.” View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
week after I resigned, my wife called from her car and asked me to come out to the driveway. She said, “You’re not going to eff-ing believe this, but I was just diagnosed with breast cancer.” It was a surreal moment. We had three kids ranging in age from 12 to 17.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million through its IPO in View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
long. She could not help but think the American Dream, or even just the chance to live a dignified life, was out of reach no matter how early she left for work or how late she stayed. Because she had been in charge of workers’ safety at a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
reality going forward? Is AR the next big thing? Willy Shih: Microsoft Windows users in the late 80s and early 90s might remember that Microsoft came up with a Solitaire game as a way of introducing people to how to use a mouse. I think... View Details
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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library
Literature The Baker Old Class collection is Baker Library’s first circulating collection and is a resource integral to tracing the development and growth of global business and industry from the late 19th century to the first half of the... View Details