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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
About half the deals are next-generation Internet companies such as Facebook, Brightcove, Prosper Marketplace, and Glam Media. The other half would be the more traditional technology-based deals where there is defensible technology and... 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 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
June 2003. Gregory H. Fairbank (HBS ’04), Captain, U.S. Army Defense Intelligence Agency counterterrorism analyst in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Served from November 2001 to November 2002. Jake H. Heller (HBS ’05), Lieutenant,... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
and the bar is set very high in the medical field. Third, it has to have defensible intellectual property. The timelines are stretched so much that it's hard to raise investment capital if there isn't the potential of a substantial reward... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
HBO series Generation Kill; J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy; former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen (AMP 109, 1991); and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Barcott also sought the advice of two... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
late 1940s is unraveling, and Murphy thinks the American foreign policy and defense establishment is directly culpable for what has happened. MetaWars: The Freedom Frontier by Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) (Orchard Books) The final book of the... 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