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- 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
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
security) so that it can become a globally accepted medium of exchange? —Joseph DiSorbo (OPM 41, 2011) So far the ecosystem has been working on creating the basic infrastructure for bitcoin to operate: exchanges allowing people to buy and sell; wallets enabling people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
In April, Tim Day (MBA 1964), chairman and CEO of Bar-S Foods, a processed-meats producer in Phoenix, Arizona, pledged $12 million in support of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Day’s most recent gift, one of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded
Anthony Harris (MBA 1979) is engineering a more secure world as president and CEO of Campbell Security Equipment Company (CSECO), the world’s leader in portable contraband-detection equipment. Devices made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
research consortium, tapping a national team of top geneticists, imaging experts, molecular biologists, and clinicians headed by Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
preparations or do certain things? None whatsoever. WHO is a part of the United Nations and is thus a member-state organization. WHO has no authority to compel its members to do anything they are not... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
40 acres, with more than 80,000 panels—costs upwards of $10 million. And such projects have a huge need for capital. “Solar isn’t just cleaner, smarter energy, or good American infrastructure, it’s also a component of our national View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Victor Navasky of The Nation magazine has spent his life taking on the Establishment. So what did he hope to accomplish at Harvard Business School? Call it what you will — the conventional wisdom, the status quo, the official line — and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Elevate The book explains the fault lines that have often plagued U.S. efforts to protect its national interests in the region and how these ongoing faults have led to a precipitous decline in American influence. The author makes some... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
continued to live apart, a situation both understood wasn't sustainable. Should they build their life in the United States or Egypt? Meditation is one of Enan's morning habits; another is free writing in her journal. At the time, she... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
falsified invoices, and sham transactions by overseas nationals who place that money into outside secure accounts, mostly in U.S. institutions. Whether the individual behind these ill-gotten gains is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
to allow displaced Cambodians to return to their country after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Then it was on to Somalia, where he served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and cofounded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off. Catapulted into a View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
nationality or which culture,” says Natarajan. “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” he concedes. “When David Garvin first presented the case and talked about how we run a company through love, the students said, ‘Oh, my god, are... View Details
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