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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
rich, poor. I put a book on hold and when it arrives, it’s kind of magical.” The big L: “For me, leadership means making decisions even when they’re hard and nobody else wants to, and doing it with integrity. I can compromise on issues, but not on the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
if the fog of achievement and expectations has muted your passion's voice. If so, find opportunities within your overscheduled life to experiment. Keep at it until something inspires you. Second, integrate who you are into every aspect of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
company to more than economic success. "Starbucks describes itself as a values-driven company," he explains. "What's most important is that leadership has the integrity to try to live religiously by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established, organizations continue to grapple with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
mainly in automobile catalytic converters), iron ore, coal, copper, nickel, zinc, and diamonds. Revenues in 2008 were $26 billion. At Anglo, despite a dividend cut and substantial layoffs prompted by the economic downturn and a collapse... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard Stadium. Rob Sundy describes himself... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
found myself thinking that unlike a career in applied math, where most of the work is pretty esoteric, if I could really make a breakthrough in economics, I might affect an awful lot of people. So, much to the chagrin of both my family and my advisors at Cal Tech, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
similar issues." Two years ago HBS and Wits Business School in Johannesburg established the program in order to aid the rapid economic and social changes taking place in southern Africa. Participants are middle managers from the private... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
gratitude, visualize hope, be mindful, and keep moving. He also offers techniques to integrate these habits into any challenging, busy life. Health Journal: 10 Minutes a Week to Greater Health through Tracking of Moods, Meds, Symptoms,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
It’s critical to stay connected to the world, to be economically viable, and to be able to do certain types of gig work. We’ve been talking for a long time about an ideal world where learning is not bound by time and space. We never... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
year as a research-based platform to address topics of worldwide import to business, BiGS integrates and amplifies work currently underway at HBS and sparks new avenues of inquiry. In the case of climate change, that means exploring ways... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
University's School of Theology. He earned his M.Div. degree last year and this month begins a new career as assistant rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. Messenger plans to design a multifaith corporate chaplaincy program that will View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
Corporation, Aspen Strategy Group, and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; and co-chair of the Cyber Readiness Institute. She shared her perspective as both an investor and a former Commerce Secretary (under President Obama), telling... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
look ridiculously easy, but it's not. It involves hard work that takes a considerable amount of focus and dedication." HENRY McCANCE Yale University, 1964 B.A., Economics "At HBS, I remember the challenge of analyzing difficult problems,... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
economic model and the HR model and getting it all working. But he said leaders need to also be poets. Now, what is a poet? A poet is somebody who creates a vision, a beautiful view of what the world could be, and tries to get everyone... View Details