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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
player in the development of the Valley. Working with Thomas J. Davis, Jr., in the firm Davis & Rock, as well as on his own (as Arthur Rock & Co.), Rock has backed many of the companies that make the Valley what it is today: Teledyne, Scientific Data Systems, Apple... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Mumbai. Light is also busy with faculty issues, including recruitment and development. He is particularly interested, he said, “in ensuring that the next generation of faculty is versed in the School’s rich... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
three MIT scientists founded E Ink in 1997. “I was the business guy,” says Wilcox, who over time has held senior leadership roles at the company in areas ranging from sales and marketing to finance to R&D. Twelve years later, the company... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
commitments. Hsieh, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration and the Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow, guides students through some of the most challenging dilemmas in the business world. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212 countries and derives 75 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
and General Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation Related Links Business at the Summit View videos of Business Summit keynote addresses and panel discussions here View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
and a modest investment of $40,000 in personal funds, Newman's Own grossed about $3.2 million in sales during its first year, generating a pretax profit of $373,000. Over the years the company's offerings have expanded to include other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
Photos by Jeff Moore Conventional wisdom says expertise gained through years of experience is the key to business success. Conventional wisdom has never met Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975). Freeman’s unfettered approach to life—“Well, I’ll... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration; Chair, General Management Program Harvard Business Review Press (February 2020) When it comes to improving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
enforcers have made a great many mistakes over the years. But in general they have managed to move toward outcomes that have been not without economic and social benefit. Thomas McCraw and Richard Tedlow are professors at Harvard View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
A Conversation with Nancy Koehn Koehn Photo Courtesy Nancy Koehn Editor’s Note: The Story of American Business itself has a back story. Explains Jacqueline Murphy of Harvard Business Press: “About five years... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
were you doing when you heard the news? Merton: I was just about ready to leave for an early morning flight to New York. The phone rang in my apartment at about quarter to six. I could easily have been out the door. I answered the phone, and the secretary View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
think housekeeping is anybody’s first pick. But I wanted to learn the business from the ground up.” Smith says that early experience taught him lessons in leadership, management, and execution. After conducting numerous room inspections... View Details