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- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
to create successful frameworks. "At VIA, we're doing the same thing." A case in point was artist Doug Aitken's high-reaching Station to Station, a "cultural happening" that took the form of a nine-car, cross-country train ride that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
view is better when you’re closer to the precipice.’ ” MMG (Multinational Management Group) was launched in London, Paris, and Chicago in early 1972, but with Great Britain’s economy then bogged down with state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and crushing tax... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
about a free ride in a submarine?” And the place went nuts, and that was my cold call horror story. Page Knudsen Cowles, 1983. Second year, I was very conscientious—I did my work. And my mother came to visit, and it was a class where we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steadily improved. Railroads were the big breakthrough, but by 1939, 10 percent of all intercity freight was shipped by motor vehicles. Getty Images For nineteenth-century passengers, riding the rails was a heady experience marked by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
growing number of students from high-poverty neighborhoods. “Our core mission is to help close the STEM achievement gap among students of diverse backgrounds in Boston,” Pearson explained in a traveling conversation this summer that began on Thompson Island and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for sustainable companies as well.... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
and a half years, two years in New York and then a couple years in Los Angeles. And it was a wonderful first place to work. Very tough place to work in terms of hours and things like that. And we had decided to live in suburban New Jersey, a place called Millburn Short... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Early Goals Ralph Dyer (MBA 1965) WHEN I WAS ABOUT 8 OR 10 YEARS OLD, my mother and I were in a taxi riding west on Storrow Drive. The cab driver was a talkative fellow who enjoyed pointing out important places, such as MIT and then... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
rebrand as Gordon Gekko or Lumbergh from Office Space. No, mon frère, I wanted to emerge as a more Rolodexed, numbers-savvy, overall better business journalist. Plus, I’d be riding out a nasty media-sector slump. Three years after my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
branding is one priority. What else do you focus on? The company is built on product innovation. Rick Alden had the idea that launched Skullcandy while he was riding a chairlift. His phone rang, and because he had to take off his helmet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
fall short, too. India’s struggle with poverty comes into clear view on the taxi ride downtown: Crowded slums with makeshift housing hug the roadway, and entire families settle down for the night on the city’s sidewalks. Also visible are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
sorts of things. One of the deacons in her church rides a motorcycle. He brought his whole motorcycle group to the chapel parking lot that night to make sure nothing got damaged. And as the construction was going on, construction guys... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Mardi Gras parades. Prieto was invited to join Rex last year, allowing him to don a costume and ride on one of the elaborate floats. “I’m a believer that classical music is not entertainment. I’ve always tried to make it feel essential to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
continue mitigating those risks and advancing the technology?” The government is in the best place. They have all the testing. And while it will take much longer done by government, we’re still riding down that cost curve with chemical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it’s summer, it’s supposed to be hot, and besides, “Whaddya gonna... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
space is like the Wild West with a bunch of companies led by CEOs riding bareback at full speed. Hit a bump and you never know what you're going to land on. Daniel M. Schley (MBA '81) June 1999 I have always retained a vivid recollection... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
inexplicable skyrocketing of prices of tulip bulbs that ultimately crashed back to earth after a wild ride of erratic up-and-down price swings,” he says. What is different about the meme-stock era is technology, which has given investors... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
beautiful ride on the water. I think there's a reason that entrepreneurs, like Sergey Brin, and Larry Page, or Sir Richard-- are drawn to the sport of kiteboarding. And it just feels like home. Skydeck is produced by the External... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks... View Details