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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Innovator’s Dilemma and make “disruption” a universal buzzword. Christensen’s latest book, Competing Against Luck, drops this month and is an outgrowth of the second puzzle he’s faced: Why is innovation such a gamble? It doesn’t have to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Eugene Meyer, who acquired the newspaper in 1933, Graham graduated from Vassar and the University of Chicago and cut her teeth as a journalist in San Francisco before accepting a position as a reporter at the Post in 1938. In 1940, she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
associate dean for Planning and University Affairs, teaches financial management. Reprinted from The Washington Post, October 21, 2008. All rights reserved. Edited for space. View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
University of Auckland in New Zealand, graduating with honors in just three years and going on to complete her PhD in neurogenetics. After earning her MBA from Harvard, Bradoo led commercialization and business development at numerous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
chair and director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. The preceding is adapted from a longer blog entry published by the Huffington Post. View Details
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
year's Reunion classes broke fundraising records: the Class of 1956 reached the highest HBS total ever for a 40th Reunion, and the Class of 1971 contributed the largest 25th Reunion gift of any class in Harvard University history. "Those... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
University of California, San Diego. "It was clear," Bry says, "that growth in the old Navy town of San Diego was going to have to come from new technology companies. CONNECT was designed to link entrepreneurs with the resources they... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
Christopher Cox In reviewing Christopher Cox's CV, one might assume that his career has been well thought out. Cox took only three years to earn a BA in English and political science at the University of Southern California; received a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
Larson Why do we almost universally regard our college years as among the best of our lives? Pause for a moment to give that some thought. Here’s a hint: The correct answer is not sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. When Bill McKibben, writer,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she carried with her to college at the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
he nor his family could have afforded for him to go to the University of Connecticut and HBS without the GI Bill,” explains Bishop. “With his gift, he wanted to help keep HBS accessible for future Charlie Waites to attend and also wanted... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
HBS faculty “By supporting the faculty, you are investing in transformational learn ing experiences and pathbreaking research.” Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education Deepening collaboration across... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
The Internet is becoming as familiar a presence in households and offices as the telephone, but, like many big ideas, it was once no more than a twinkle in someone's magazine story. Writing in the days before computers had even become commonplace in American life,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other colleges and universities to give... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
which built the large machines that automate the production of cardboard boxes. “I’ve always been wired operationally,” says Thomas, who majored in industrial engineering at Stanford University before coming to HBS. That background,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
records. “If a cow is calving, you are going to stay with her rather than go put numbers in the computer,” he notes. A native of Blue Ridge, Texas, Davis took a job at a major accounting firm after graduating from East Texas State View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Spanish-language versions and on mobile devices. In addition to working with Tufano (soon-to-be dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford) on policy change that allows tax filers to direct some of their refunds to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
universe is so much more mind-boggling and beyond our control than those markers of success. It was a transcendent moment that changed my life. Since then, I have tried to stay in touch with the wild part of the universe. I’ve led... View Details