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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book pulls together leading-edge insights from some of the world's best researchers about how organizational change in general—and sustainable change in particular—can be most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
10 ounces; holds up to 1,500 books; can go for days without a recharge; and offers the wireless capability anywhere in the United States to download a new book from Amazon’s online store for less than half... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the center-right View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
make AI into a potentially exciting new technology.” “I think as a small company, I’m coming to the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once,” says Dubinsky. In recent years, Numenta’s business model has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these moments from her new book,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
community to rally support and aid for the victims of this tragic event. If you have a story or news to share, please email us at alumni_communications@hbs.edu. WHERE TO GIVE We offer the following suggestions of organizations for those... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
supply. In 2009 we started shaping the kind of inventory we needed and partnered with brands in the same way department stores do to make sure that we’re not left empty-handed when we have surges in demand. MT: How are you responding to... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- News
Taking the Lead at Wesfarmers
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
(MBA ’05) first line of women’s clothing, AMMARA, won’t hit department stores until this fall, she’s already landed in Women’s Wear Daily for bringing fashionable apparel to mature customers at a lower price point. “I felt there was a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
jewelry and furs to sweatshirts and school supplies,” quips the tall, affable, Charlestown, Massachusetts, native, who in 1991 left his job as general manager at Neiman Marcus in Texas to accept the challenge of “putting the Coop on track for the next one hundred... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
industries have in common? When an industry faces a shock, it can attempt to compete directly with the new technology or retreat into a niche. However, some technologies are well suited for a third strategy, one that’s View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
several times over the years, depending on available personnel. The hours were filled the first year with a series of faculty speakers, roundtable discussions, a “Connoisseur’s Corner” musical series, occasional recorded comedy, an HBS Sports Roundup, a late-night... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in alumni data recorded back in those days? The staff filled in the alum’s View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
and scholarly reputations of faculty, writes HBS professor Rakesh Khurana in his new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands. BusinessWeek had the audacity to base its rankings on the view of the schools’ two main “customers,” students and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
are made on the Internet, it's difficult to bet the whole organization on one approach," he explains. "We've developed a world-class Web site that's supported by a state-of-the-art fulfillment center. But we also want to bring new... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
ago, to research the “new, but untested, financial system,” unregulated as all get-out, filled with “trust me” and “I don’t really understand the math.” Light and his experts seem to understand it now. What new information did they get... View Details