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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
challenges,” he explains. A former supermarket industry CEO, Alvarez shares his passion for exploring all aspects of the food industry—from farm to port to table—with participants in the Agribusiness Seminar. The Executive Education... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
available—even before the pandemic. That got even tighter this year and when you add the holiday season and the vaccine, it’s a three-layer cake of nasty. The one silver lining is that air passenger travel is way down and some of those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
one-year stint ended, Tierney joined the corporate finance division of White, Weld & Co. in New York and settled with his wife and three children in Connecticut. At White Weld, he developed a department that focused on transportation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
An Air Force brat whose most frequent home while growing up was San Antonio, Texas, Tumulty attended the University of Texas at Austin, a hotbed of journalism that has produced household names such as Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers. "In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
world literature, including Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. In a volatile industry known for the intelligence, passion, and eccentricity of its publishers, Olson emphasizes the importance of face-to-face meetings over... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
the life trajectories of virtually everyone in that room. It was so special to be back in a classroom with other alums. It was like an instantaneous transport back in time to some of the best years of our lives (for many).” Anissa... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would exacerbate inflation, place... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
AIR AND SPACE: GLF participants enjoyed cocktails and dinner at the popular Washington museum. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANUTA OTFINOWSKI There has never been a time when there have been as many challenges facing this country as there are now, nor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
cameras, and snacks (chocolate, in several cases). The temperature was mild, and the air was humid. Tired at the end of the day, they relaxed and ate dinner, getting to know each other. The summit, conversely, began several days later at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air shipping their products,... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
experience, so I quit the Air Force and came to HBS to get my credentials in preparation for a career in business. I pray that attitude in industry has been overcome today. The Marine captain [Maura Corby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
determined quest. Auth will transport you in his spiritual time machine from Egypt’s Old Kingdom, through Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe; from the age of the Renaissance, through the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment; and from... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
Industrial Administrator Program, the Army Quartermaster Corps School, the Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army Air Forces Statistical School (where I did my teaching), as well as the Navy's Contract... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro During his 11 years in the Israeli Air Force, Shimon Elkabetz (MBA 2017) had several near-death experiences related to weather. Once he flew into a foggy cloud bank after the... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
international students do seem more familiar with it from observing it in their own countries. As it happens, the Lincoln Electric Company is now a thriving multinational — and its Cleveland plant remains as successful as ever.” Good Wrap, Bum Wrap Case: Sealed View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
predicted that his expertise in the business of flight would one day take him beyond the stratosphere and into cyberspace, and to an important role in the e-commerce revolution. After working in nearly every facet of the airline industry... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
kind of undecided. Lam Chuan Leong (MBA ’78), who was my boss in the Air Force, had done his Harvard MBA and told me about his experience.” Yeo had interests beyond his science and engineering background in school and university, the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
Conjure, if you can, a mental picture of air travel in its heyday. All the delights you’re probably envisioning right now—indulgent meal service, bottomless beverage carts, perhaps even pillbox hats—were provided by the airlines, says... View Details