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- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
New York City. And as it turned out, the day that the Financial Times piece ran, was the day she had arrived in New York to renegotiate her Macy's contract. So it happened actually, to be perfect timing to actually make a difference for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
Belsky “It turns out that we are not our greatest selves at either the low or the high points of a journey. Because during the lows, we tend to make decisions out of fear, and at the peaks, we make decisions out of ego, by falsely... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
attitudes and objectives of students and faculty at HBS had been fairly consistent from one year to the next, but the early '70s marked a turning point. The School was not immune to the unprecedented social and political upheaval... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
lecturer Robert Eccles moderated the discussion. Nohria, noting that the book turns on just a few key concepts (see sidebar), asked how some of the book’s core ideas had come about. “It’s hard to figure out where ideas come from,” said... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
of companies, the authors show how a few pioneering organizations are turning attention management into a potent competitive advantage. Place to Space: Migrating to e-Business Models, by Peter Weill and Michael R. Vitale, is the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
portable digital media device, designed to challenge Apple’s wildly successful iPod, to market too late? Without hesitation, Ballmer candidly replied, “Sure, it’s too late” — an admission greeted with approving applause. But that turned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is named Avi Therapeutics, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
course. Like others in his class, Mulkerin met the news of the first-year offering — which had received widespread media coverage — with a groan. “I thought it would be eighty minutes of preaching,” says Mulkerin, who was pleasantly surprised when LCA View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
turn this into a real organization, and you fast forward to today and it’s about 10 million [users]. “At minimum, what Khan Academy gives a student is an outlook. It gives them a second opinion. Now they have another place to go, a place... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
company metrics of which she’s particularly proud. The ultimate goal is to build a circular food system, one in which you buy a good-for-you snack in a compostable bag, and that bag turns back into rich soil to grow more food. “We hope to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. The solution View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
reforms. Education and health care are the country’s two most formidable challenges, Chidambaram observed. Stating that India must become “a knowledge society,” he noted that while the country is known for the talent its elite universities View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
In the motion picture industry, most people know Alan Horn as the smart, savvy chairman and CEO of Castle Rock Entertainment, the film company that has turned out movie hits such as When Harry Met Sally and In the Line of Fire, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly narrow focus required to complete... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says Scharpf. The Rwandan venture... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
of which, Mueller-Maerki, on campus for his 40th reunion this past October, is sporting a low-cost Swatch—the Patek Philippe his wife gave him as a gift on his 50th birthday is in Switzerland for cleaning and restoration.) Since retiring from Egon Zehnder in 2000,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
impression, they marked a turning point in Bolick's education as a leader. Bolick was born in Germany and grew up in an Army family that moved every couple of years. In his five-year career as an Army officer, in two years as a consultant... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at... View Details