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- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
the Horns to cofound the Environmental Media Association. He also serves as a vice chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Hollywood can be a cutthroat world, and many successful people leave a wake of damage, but Alan Horn is not... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
in a World on Fire. Opening remarks from Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chairman of Walt Disney Studios and chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Board of Trustees, underscored the night’s charge: “There is an opportunity, if not a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
outreach and social justice advocacy, justice system reform, and education parity. Its past campaign, the Take Action Initiative, raised $400,000 for The Bail Project, the Black AIDS Institute, the Equal Justice Initiative, the NAACP Legal View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
of fixed-income instruments, a variety of currency investments, and other kinds of commodity-like investments. People will be looking for portfolios that will get them through several years of market uncertainty. Are you already seeing this View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
renewables (wind and solar), nuclear power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins (“fake meat”). Adaptation technologies, like flood defense and asset protection, also offer potential investment opportunities.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
that’s faster and safer—and they’re able to build new facilities where needed. But equally important is the higher quality of work and life for the teams: “They're happy and proud of where they work now, but then there’s also an improvement in terms of mission,” notes... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
of health-care finance and access, this simple innovation could help make things better today. Could you talk about your idea of “citizen diplomats”? In comparison with our massive defense spending, the U.S. Foreign Service budget is very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
break to earn his MBA (with distinction), and then continued up the ranks as submarine squadron commander and finally deputy oceanographer of the Navy. After retiring from the Navy, he took an assignment with the Defense Advanced Research... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
highest honors bestowed on a foreigner. In 1952, while acting director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, he was in charge of controlling the trade of the Soviet-bloc countries and promoting trade in the free world. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
policies, and procedures to detect if anyone successfully intrudes, and then to know how to respond. Security is not just firewalls.” Indeed, a reliance on technological defenses can breed a false sense of security, since constant... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
freedom to listen and weigh in with real honesty and experience than those planning lifelong Washington careers.” Braun, whose legislative priorities include job creation, defense spending, and debt reduction, serves on several Senate... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
“Why didn’t I think of that?” I’ve learned to trust that there’s an endless well of good ideas. And when you put opportunities in the hands of wild-eyed optimists—instead of established companies that are in defense mode—people create... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
efficiency and economy in the military. Primary objectives included, would you believe, the initiation of double-entry accounting! This project obviously led to his later assignment in 1965 as assistant secretary of defense (comptroller).... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
important to the defense side as to the attacking side. Novartis has 138 drugs in its pipeline, more than any of its competitors. How has the company become so successful at creating a culture of innovation? Initially, we spent a lot of... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
assist with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s transition team at the Pentagon. After shoring up new leadership, he moved to the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and helped to create the Global Development Alliance, an agency... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
as Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., Deseret Pharmaceutical Co., New England Nuclear Corp., and Velcro Industries. And by the summer of 1969, it was ready to hire its first associate, Henry McCance, fresh out of three years in defense systems... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
developed a clutch system and mounted our lawnmower engine onto my 3-speed bike. My top speed was 53 mph!” he says. With an engineering degree earned at Brigham Young University, Frey worked in the defense industry during the 1980s. When... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
and tubs and trays that would separate them—anyone could buy those at their local hydroponics store. “But very few people can grow at the density and with the specificity that we can,” says Lo. The risk issue was addressed with what she refers to as the facility’s... View Details