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- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
$9 million operation. The company, renamed Harvard Bioscience, Inc. — it has a licensing agreement with Harvard University — went public in 2000 and by 2010 had become a $108 million firm. Asked how he came to decide to work in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
us are suffering in silence. We don’t want anyone to know we’re feeling a little less than certain—or even vulnerable,” she says. Skeete Tatum speaks in personal terms about Landit, in part because her own experience inspired the idea for the company. After graduating... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 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 View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
Internet. "My next big project," explains Høegh, "will be a multimedia collaborative outdoor spectacle that will tour the globe, with performances involving local people as well as a worldwide online audience. It will be an attempt to communicate in a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
the University of Rochester Medical School. Her "baby" is now eleven years old. "I want to spend more time with him as he enters his teenage years," she says. At ease in a new office personalized with artwork from her beloved Tanzania,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the majority of our profits have gone back to our investors, who are dominated by America's great universities and foundations. So when we have a good result, those organizations have more capital to pay professors, build laboratories,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
25-year-old male with a university degree who has worked for two or three years with a bank or insurance company where the job required him to cold-call prospects and push products. iTrust takes a different approach. New hires unlearn how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
public health, State agencies, any university researchers, graduate students or full professors, doesn't make any difference. We've made it very open for people to come in and participate in that organization. The first big project that... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Nov 2018
- News
Acts of Kindness
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. We have one at the High Mount School, which is an elementary school. And I'm hoping that this is something that can expand. “That, to me, might make a real difference in the world. If we would... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
is a thriller: Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy Versus Counterspy. At the center of the book is Asaf Ali Khan, a Pakistani university professor pushed by his uncle to spy on India’s secret nuclear weapons development. THE WINEMAKER:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
university campuses, or amusement parks. “Forget the guideways, forget the stations, just do it all with software,” Alden explained. “Basically, software is replacing all this infrastructure.’ As investors show interest, the 84-year-old... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to the market’s rise and collapse.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
football was strong enough to attract a group such as that at Harvard Business School. Bob Brown (MBA 1965): I'd been captain of the University of Michigan football team, but in the spring of my final year I went out and played on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
feelings and felt really out of place. I can’t say I faced overt racism or sexism—it was more a feeling of being invisible. CLIF DARDEN arrived at HBS having driven across the country from his home in Los Angeles, California. As a high-achieving business major at the... View Details