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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
Fitzhugh's honor. Fitzhugh, who passed away in 1992, graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1931, despite being forced to live off-campus because of his race. He was one of the first African Americans to attend HBS, where he... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
suddenly reassigned for six months to an earthquake-relief mission. At sixteen, she was named one of the two hundred most outstanding students in China. Later, at prestigious Beijing University, where she studied child psychology, she was elected View Details
- 05 May 2017
- News
Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
four stores. He rose to president of Staples North American Stores and online, overseeing 1,800 stores and the web business. Before he joined Barnes & Noble in November, he visited dozens of stores around... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
a PR stumble during its too-sheer yoga pant debacle. “I think there is a lot of market share to be had around what she’s doing,” says former Starbucks colleague Wendy Collie, the president and CEO of the West Coast–based grocer New... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
members arrived at Kenya’s State House in Nairobi to meet with the country’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, as part of the School’s faculty immersion in Africa. “Business and entrepreneurship are ingrained in the Kenyan psyche, whether it is the billionaire or the hawker,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
something relevant and stimulated ideas within a younger person, which has added to that individual’s store of knowledge,” says Belo-Osagie. What had started as a conversation with then Harvard University President Drew Faust two years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
on many readers, including President Jimmy Carter, who looked to Stobaugh for advice while developing the country's energy policy. While studying international business, Stobaugh led a team of HBS researchers in 1971 who found that... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
their pistols and muskets and attack only with swords and bayonets. Hamilton's troops silently crept up on the British, then surged into the trenches and began screaming like madmen. After ten or fifteen minutes of vicious hand-to-hand fighting, the View Details
- 27 May 2020
- News
Prepare to Exit
Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) For the last seven years, Jimmy Tran (MBA 2008) appeared to be well on his way along the professional path he’d set out for himself: He had risen to the level of vice president of a Fortune 150... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
After 35 years with IBM, Tatsuyuki Saeki could have chosen to put his feet up and relax — perhaps after a few rounds of golf. But that just isn’t Ted Saeki’s style. Instead, the feisty 60-year-old veteran executive has started a second career as View Details
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
Cunningham in 1913-14 and a year later The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States had me wondering who the first African-Americans were to earn Harvard MBAs. I thought I’d have to slog... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize from the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
of the factors that bound together this extraordinary class, most of whom attended HBS with help from the GI Bill. Author David Callahan has chronicled their achievements in his new book, Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School’s Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
year after year. Sure, business can drive positive change, but it can also stunt it and slow it. One of the first things that supposedly business-friendly President Ronald Reagan did upon taking office in 1981 was to remove the solar... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
While many in this election year are focused on issues that divide the United States and the damage this discord may be doing to democracy, historian David Moss offers a perspective rooted in American democracy’s resilient past. “There... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
produced twelve books and a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Award-winning Harvard Business Review articles); served as a chief architect of the cornerstone Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) course; and guided the launch of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry