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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people worldwide. Yet most can’t afford the blood glucose monitoring needed to manage their condition. For a target group... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
use — among them, death by delay, confusion, fearmongering, and character assassination — and then engage them with tactics tailored to each strategy. By “inviting in the lions” to critique an idea and being prepared for them, managers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
resurgence” has metamorphosed into a death march of Islamic civilization, Allawi writes in his recent book, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization (Yale University Press). Although Islam as a religious faith nurturing millions of believers... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Christopher Poliquin (now assistant professor of Strategy at UCLA Anderson School of Management), were at first unsure about how they could have an effect on a dire statistic: Nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths occur annually, almost 15,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
global strategy, a new position. More Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people. Yet most can't afford... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
the business just after their father's death and following a foray into entrepreneurship. "A drawback to family business," Barco observes, "is that the founder is often a dominant personality, like my father was, so the children-you might... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
realized that its activities had contributed to unnecessary death and destruction. I saw firsthand the role and power of business and the positive and negative impact it can have on people's lives." Ballou ultimately wants to work in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
I was scared to death that everyone would be smarter than me. And they were. On the first day of class we were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene. Then Professor Ted Levitt ate me... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
ad campaign has been a game-changer for the Abbeville, Alabama–based wood company. Rane was a practicing attorney in Birmingham in 1970 when he acquired Great Southern following the deaths of its founders, his wife’s parents, in an auto... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
players—spurred into action after the death of George Floyd—spoke out. “The final, most pernicious category undergirds the everyday black experience,” Rice writes. These practices put people of color at a disadvantage in the competition... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
country and abroad. His premature death has robbed us of a world-class scholar and a valued friend and colleague." Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who worked closely with Jaikumar for... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
yet I was one of the few women who made it through the glass ceiling to the top of international football. Until one day, the rug was pulled off from underneath me, and I found myself out of a job. There was a horrible social media defamation campaign against me. I... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
experience. Such experience has served him well as he has introduced numerous pieces of legislation that have, among other things, repealed inheritance taxes (the so-called death tax), banned taxes on Internet commerce, and limited... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
so close to death was a wake-up call," she says. "It made me reevaluate how I wanted to spend the rest of my life." Upon reflection, she decided to leave the corporate world and take time off to write, with the plan of eventually starting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Crucible: Relocation
Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson When we discussed the concept of crucibles at HBS, my best guess then—based on my dating record and polycystic ovaries—was that I might struggle with finding a life partner and with fertility. As I re-emerge from my first real... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
contributions that Howard's great friend and colleague Pat Liles made to entrepreneurial teaching at HBS before his untimely death in the spring of 1984. He and Howard made a great team, and we're very fortunate to have had the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
including carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and the creation of intellectual property. (Star Wars director George Lucas, for example, found Death Valley National Park to be the perfect locale for Luke Skywalker’s home planet of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details