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- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
& Co., kicked off the first plenary session with a quick overview of factors contributing to the U.S. pharmaceutical industry's success in competing in the global market. Among other ad- vantages, Gilmartin cited the View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
upsetting the West's conventional wisdom about the reasons for Japan's success, Porter and his coauthors emphasize that Japanese practices such as total quality and continuous improvement were valuable additions to U.S. industry. But, as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
information you have. Ultimately, this process leads you to a zone for judgment; it's a process I have used throughout my career." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Director, The Council for Excellence in Government Director, Capital Partners for Education Director, Audit Advisory... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Lovell began a career in telecommunications. He also coauthored Lost Moon, a book that inspired the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Lovell now serves on several space-related boards and is an advocate for the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
annually from the U.S. Navy Working Capital Fund to each of the divisions, for capital improvement projects like buildings and equipment. But there was a major problem with the fund’s model: “In 2001, we were at 93 percent execution of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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 triggered by View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
Sadly, hockey-mad Canada has few cities that can sustain an NHL team economically, so it's losing teams to U.S. cities." Commenting on the first-time-ever participation of NHL stars on national teams at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
new ways. Wei Zhang: Wei Zhang, MBA 1999. So now I live in LA, but at the same time I also manage a team in China, so my work day is ... during the day I work U.S. time and then about 5 o'clock, China starts to kick in, and then I work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
journalists are embedded in Iraq, compared with 500 in Vietnam in the 1970s. Is the decline of the Fourth Estate no more lamentable than that of the Sony Walkman? Things are feeling downright funereal. Newsweek purged 111 staffers from its masthead, while rival View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
nearly 2,000 Ph.D.'s), most of whom are employed at its Washington, D.C., headquarters. Although the United States controls only 17 percent of the Bank's votes, by tradition the Bank's nine presidents have all been Americans. (Australian-born James Wolfensohn, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
because these companies clearly are incapable of competing with Japanese-owned companies that are simply producing better cars at lower cost. Won’t we continue to have a U.S. auto industry? It’s just that the manufacturers will produce... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
longest-running and most successful media strategy in U.S. advertising history," according to Advertising Age. McCraw reminds readers that despite the present-day size of behemoths such as McDonald's and Ford Motor Company, each began as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
authority on the issue. He developed and taught a course on innovation at HBS and served as a visiting professor at both the MIT Media Lab and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. — Sean Silverthorne View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
American child at the time of birth. “At historical rates of equity returns of 8 percent annually, a $6,750 at-birth retirement account—which would cost the government $26 billion a year based on the average number of children born in the View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
up running at the age of 65 and a decade later set the U.S. record for the 5K event in his age group. “You've got to remember,” noted the 93-year-old, who no longer runs due to a detached retina, “the competition in my age category was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
What do Joanne Hilferty of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, Abby Cohen of Goldman Sachs, Robin Chase of Zipcar, and Nanci Mackenzie of U.S. Gas Transportation have in common? Each is a protagonist in a recent HBS case study. These are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details