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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
of 732. Once they clear the formidable hurdle of admission, some 89 students in the programs receive a level of backing and resources for field research that sets HBS apart, thanks in large measure to alumni generosity. "There's an enormous support system at HBS,"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Meanwhile, their first run of product was at the copacker, the Shopify site was awaiting its final bells and whistles, and launch parties needed to be finalized. Dry January was just around the corner, and all the evidence suggests that more and more Americans would... View Details
- 05 Apr 2009
- News
The world's no 1 bestseller
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
experience here even more effective and more powerful,” Dean Kim B. Clark observed at the dedication. “We are enormously grateful to the Spanglers.” For his part, Spangler thanked the thousands of people who had worked on the building in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
correspondence, and documents that Chandler has generated and collected over more than six decades. At a campus celebration in November, Chandler, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, donated this treasure trove to Baker Library so that others may... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Let’s Celebrate! HBS is 100 Years Young
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, saluting the School’s illustrious past and looking forward to a momentous future. She revealed that she had recently become a strong advocate of the case method after Dean Jay Light invited her to HBS, where... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
made a significant contribution to the growth and development of public education in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. "Dick does things quietly," observes Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57), a longtime friend. Among those "quiet"... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Project outreach
"The feedback has been very positive. The volunteers had a great time, and the agencies were pleased with our work," observed Decker, adding that she hopes local alumni will participate in the future. View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
admission will be by invitation only issued by an independent board. Observed one enthusiastic supporter of Curry’s utopian project: “I don’t know anyone else who’s done anything like this.” View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Child’s Play
Press-Gazette (November 16, 2010). Observing her own under-two son flip pictures and flashcards on an iPhone, Tak realized how technology can be used by even the very young. And she noted, while there are lots of apps for mobile devices,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
“Harvard Business School graduates are literally ruling the world,” gushed an article in Fortune (January 8, 2001). The magazine observed that in the last year alone, a whopping number of HBS alumni had taken over the corner office at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
1999. (See sidebar.) “Since its founding, HBS has been committed to case-method teaching,” observes HBS professor David A. Garvin, who will be the faculty director of the new center. “Teaching is a vital part of our culture here. The... View Details
- 02 May 2023
- News
Banking’s Regular Rescuer
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn With this week's takeover of First Republic, the New York Times took a look at how JPMorgan Chase, led by CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982), has leveraged its role as the go-to bank when other banks fail. First Republic is now the third... View Details
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
As CEO of Landcorps, New Zealand’s largest farming company, Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is a careful observer of food trends. "My job, given that we have got a million acres of land, and that it takes a long time to shift from one land use... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
of the corporate leaders President Obama says he most admires, has become an influential policy and economic adviser to the Obama administration. He has contributed to the campaigns of Obama and other politicians, and some observers have... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
When Sotheby's recently auctioned off fourteen love letters that reclusive author J.D. Salinger had written 27 years ago to Joyce Maynard, his then college-age companion, many observers derided Maynard's decision to sell the letters,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
religious heritage. Not least among these is the belief that “you can be a highly performing business executive and also be a very religious person,” observes Seck Mercier. “Those two things can go together without any issue.” She is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution... View Details