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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
efforts also led to the creation of an office that offers students information and support services. He has also been active in the restructuring of campus concessions to better capture and allocate value throughout the student community.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
business functions, VanAuken finds that "consulting offers the greatest amount of variety and intellectual stimulation for people like me who get bored easily. It provides maximum independence, flexibility, and freedom in one's personal... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
guy like Musk walk in saying, ‘I’ll offer you something 98 percent as reliable for one-third the cost.’ It shakes things up. The reason SpaceX can do what it does is that it’s not using 50-year-old methods.” “Space companies are starting... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
some of the big inflection points and in particular, some of the events that did so much to define the story of American business: the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the crash of the stock market in 1929, the rise of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical device company marketed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
domestic product. The lure of faraway places recently led the Bulletin to consider two different sorts of vacation enterprises in which HBS alumni play prominent roles. The first, Turtle Island (at left), is an intimate, one-of-a-kind hideaway; the second, Club Med, is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands - at more than $525 million. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, stores offer a full range of copying, fax, and mailing services, as well as computing and printing self-service, videoconferencing, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
university storage facility, benefits from student energy. They buzz about the expansive lab space, which is stocked with 3D printers, circuit board builders, and a wall full of electronic parts and wires. Two other sections of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
another course spawned by the Initiative on Social Enterprise - Society and Enterprise (S&E), a module that offers lessons about corporate involvement in the social sector. S&E is required of all MBA students as a part of Foundations, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. Coup, who’s 41 and a numbers whiz, worked as the policy director for the anti-deficit Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C.; a strategic planner in the office of the American Stock Exchange’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
said Doriot. “I look for the resourceful man.” Olsen embodied that ideal. In Doriot, Olsen found a comforting father figure always ready to offer words of encouragement or some bit of wisdom. The fates of these two men would be forever... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
concerned about the environment." In the Third World, where the twin pressures of widespread poverty and explosive population growth often overwhelm environmental protection efforts, sustainable development meets perhaps its sternest test — and View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
returning four days later. He didn’t reach Katahdin—his diary offers no explanation for the change of plans—but he would forever view the trip as his “emancipation.” Moore thrived on the freedom. A few years later, while attending... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it more global, more rooted in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Stock market is better. The unemployment rate is down. The borders are more secure. ISIS looks more vulnerable. We have a phenomenal Supreme Court Justice. I mean, I can go on and on and on. And Congress, including the Republicans are in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the View Details