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- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
for myself.” Over the next 35 years Weinstein held leadership positions at various arts organizations, including as general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, executive director of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center (with a view of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
says Dorsen, "including several of whom had not even been formally invited." While there was a lot of interest in the idea, the principal concern among the group was whether there were enough good companies in the pipeline to generate... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
of newspapers and magazines. And yet, as print ads flee online for pennies on the dollar — and newsprint prices jump while circulation and newsstand sales slump — these enterprises have never seen their financial prospects dim so rapidly.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of Manhattan. Among their many virtues,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
liability, but I have paid nonetheless. I believe that people who have money should pay some amount in taxes. We all have an obligation to our generation and the next to give some of our money back so that we can keep this country going... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of black students—including HBS’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
million people on its payrolls, the restaurant industry is the nation's largest private-sector employer, attracting 46 percent of every dollar spent on food. Despite these statistics, the industry (with the exception of a few star chefs... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
became robust again during the '80s — reported losses approaching half a billion dollars between 1990 and 1994. But that tide is changing, says BC's amiable chairman George Harad, who became CEO in 1994 and chairman in 1995. Harad has... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tariffs for dumping cheap sets in the U.S. market. The U.S. government also curtailed Chinese textile imports on grounds that their rapid increase constituted a “surge.” Critics blame the import flood on the undervalued Chinese yuan, pegged at 8.27 to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
General Georges Frederic Doriot, but I do know that in 2002, when I looked into the sparse literature on the history of venture capital, his name kept popping up. I found a bunch of newspaper and magazine profiles, a chapter on him in a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1 p.m. tour, including the new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
tell you, the future of health care. Today it can still be extraordinarily difficult for a patient to, say, get an MRI at a nearby community hospital—where it could also be hundreds or thousands of dollars cheaper—and then have it sent to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to the Omidyar Network, their first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
also to the general public and people in the political world who were making key decisions.” The book was scheduled to come out in 1978, but delays pushed it back to 1979, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. “In 1978, I don’t... View Details