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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
opened my eyes to what one could do.” Straight shooter: “My first assignment at Xerox was to help take the company into China. When the chairman announced in the press what we were doing, I chastised him and said that was not something he should have done. Everyone was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Made in America: Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Commerce,” piqued my interest, so I ended up reading the entire magazine, not just the Class Notes. Imagine my shock when I saw the “The Scene” photo of twelve singing tycoons in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
to macro shocks in the global economy, and there were few places to turn to for financial support. “There’s not much venture capital now, and for sure there wasn’t much venture capital back then,” he adds. “It was very tough to go to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
reunions. READ MORE Morrell: Diane, thank you again for being here. We really appreciate it. This is a new way of looking at these undecided voters, who were sort of a black box. What were you seeing early on that was revelatory to you? Hessan: It was absolutely View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
was not shocked by that figure, but its underlying components gave us a new perspective. Survey respondents were more pessimistic about the future of American living standards than about companies’ prospects. Alumni appear to believe that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
world logged on and posted messages. While all expressed shock and sorrow, many graduates, including Clive R. Foskett (58th PMD), reported on the solidarity outside the United States. "Everyone in my company has just observed three... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
shock of the Kennedy assassination and the accession of President Johnson. And increasingly, there was the problem of Southeast Asia. McNamara says he at first accepted the Cold War–based “domino theory” that if South Vietnam fell to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
refugee women about reproductive health. “I was shocked the first time I heard some kids call me La Blanche—“The White Lady”—because I am a lighter-skinned African American,” she laughs. Working in West Africa put the future into sharper... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
together and helped each other cope with the loss, the pain, and the shock to our everyday lives. When New Yorkers join together, nothing can stop us." But for most New Yorkers, that resolve would not come immediately - the View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
(Fictive Press) It’s 1957 in the fictional Canadian province of Superior. In the span of just a few days in November, the lives of several high-level government officials and a colorful cast of “destitutes” are about to change forever as wrongdoings lead to View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are merely the latest View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
was a freshman in high school, and so many of us were 14, 15 years old, and that was starting high school. This was the beginning of the new millennium, and that was the beginning. I remember watching Shock and Awe and the "mission... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left many without any access to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
estimated that price tag at a shocking $504 billion for 2015. Having parked, Langford is now maneuvering a cardboard box full of spiral-bound white papers through a series of doors leading to a Carter Center conference room. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
practices is to comply with the law," says Rowe. "The second is to get out in front of the law, which is only going to get more complicated as attention is turned increasingly to environmental issues." NEES was first turned on to the benefits of conservation after the... View Details