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- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computers. (Yes, Virginia, HBS was once Mac territory!) Ace stored more kinds of alumni information (e.g., kin relationships between alums, one level of prior employment, and, eventually, e-mail addresses) than the previous system did and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
country but of American and foreign businesses as well. My only recommendation to remedy the abuses mentioned is to lift the level of morality of all perpetrators, government and private sector alike. But as citizens, we have no power to... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
of other free products. About 30 percent of students who spend more than 10 minutes in an Alison course complete the course. In some offerings, that number is as high as 60 percent, a nearly unheard of level of engagement for the sector.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
started World War I, and it all collapsed. As percentages of GDP, we didn’t return to those earlier levels of global capital flows until the 1990s. Global free trade is not the natural order of things. Globalization is a project, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
achieve.” Mikitani expected that the initial global English-only conversion would be difficult. “This is going to be a long-term effort for us,” he states in the case. “Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English.” All... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
the access we have to companies to conduct research is extraordinary. If you’re entrepreneurial and can find your path, I can’t think of a better place to be.” The high levels of access and trust engendered by the HBS name were of crucial... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
the most turbulent periods in the history of corporate America. Bill Donaldson’s glittering résumé reflects the career of a man who has spent more than 45 years at the highest levels of business, government, and academia. Consider some of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
was spotted in 1986 by Alain Gomez (20th PMD), the charismatic chairman of the French electronics giant Thomson, who tapped him as his special assistant. In 1988, Djelic went to the United States to help with a new Thomson acquisition,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
share of the generated savings. The innovative plan received approval from all three regulatory agencies in the states New England Electric serves: Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Putting the new plan in place, in 1990 New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
question, What would a Harley look like if it was made for this environment? We now export it from India to Europe and the rest of Asia.” “American company culture...has the ability to unlock a higher level of performance in a climate... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
impressively, finished—his first 50K, a mountainous 31.1-mile course. Still, he says, he didn’t wholeheartedly pursue longer-distance running until, at 64, a broken bone in his leg sidelined him. The shock of injury and his gratitude for recovery jolted Spector to a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
from outside the United States last year, proving the company’s standing as a truly global entity. And Immelt has made it a priority to ensure that the ranks of upper management reflect this new reality. “The way we train our people is... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
particular medical conditions. A recent report shows that Medicare costs for identical conditions vary greatly from state to state, and even within states, with no apparent difference in the quality of care. How do you explain those... View Details
- 21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
businesses in the region, including meat processor OSI Group are finally rethinking their approach to sustainability by starting at the farming level and are no longer “agnostic” when it comes to climate change, said Nicole... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
action legislation helped to level the playing field in the same way as the GI Bill? The top CEOs in business are usually between 45 and 65 years old, so it takes a couple of generations to see the impact of legislative acts aimed at... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
teaching her four-year-old how to read, Ryan’s mother visited his public kindergarten and realized he wouldn’t receive the level of learning he deserved, so she enrolled him in a local parochial school. “I couldn’t have had better... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
neighborhoods across Baltimore, with competitive admissions) is annually ranked among the best public schools in the United States. This year, 96 percent of the school's graduates are college bound, many to elite institutions in the United View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
parenting popular in the United States and Europe. She also offers a few clever tips, such as how Russian babies are potty trained well before the age of two, and how Russian mothers easily get their young children to eat healthy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
strong—there’s always the next project, the next deadline. Research by Assistant Professor Anat Keinan may help prevent those feelings of regret. In a study of present-day college students and of alumni returning for their 40th reunion, Keinan asked the two groups to... View Details