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- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
appreciation for the skills and friendships he and his son acquired at the School. While pursuing his MBA, Peter met fellow UK native and sectionmate Philip Hulme, and after graduation, the pair cofounded Computacenter, one of Europe’s largest independent providers of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"During the Gold Rush," EMC Corporation's Michael C. Ruettgers (MBA '67) reminded a Burden Hall audience last September, "a lot of infrastructure people got rich, along with a handful of gold panners." That's why, amid the glitz and glory... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
their three component parts. This change will give rise to three very different kinds of businesses: large infrastructure businesses, large customer-relationship businesses, and small, nimble product innovators. "Executives will be forced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
When Dean Kim B. Clark took the HBS helm in October 1995, one of his immediate goals was to create a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure at the School. A centerpiece of that effort was the Course Platform, launched in the fall of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
money.’” In the years since, SITAWI has evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of the Brazilian nonprofit and for-profit positive impact community. It is now, in part, a lending platform. Instead of directly making loans, the organization provides the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
can do more to take advantage of. People don’t have that inherent kind of belief about trucks. I spent 12 years on the engineering side of the railroad industry, supervising infrastructure maintenance. I then had what I always describe as... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
particularly when that work involves an international dimension. We want the ERC to provide a complete infrastructure for faculty so that they can develop cases in the most favorable conditions possible." HBS professor Dwight B. Crane,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
prices and market capitalizations, loss of market share, failure to innovate, and reactionary cost-cutting). Organized in three parts, Dot Vertigo addresses the issue of business disorientation; the execution of the I-Net infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
smooth experience, Brazil's brand will take a hit. To claim success, Brazil must put on a great party, demonstrate efficient economic management of the Cup, keep financial corruption to a minimum, and re-purpose Cup investment and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
handling, storage, and protection of data and infrastructure configurations. It’s also important to establish crisis management procedures, responses, and responsibilities in the event of an attack. Despite the mounting danger posed by... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
will be deciding which of those markets to pursue." With more than half of the company's business outside the United States, DiCamillo sees tremendous potential abroad, especially for instant imaging, where infrastructure is not required.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Sustaining a commitment to the environment
and engineering companies serving the environmental infrastructure industry. As president, he is able to "merge my vocational interests with my avocational passions, particularly with regard to the environment and conservation," says... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
"During the first five years our performance was strong but somewhat volatile," says Kingdon. "We were just a tiny firm and didn't have the analytical backup and the infrastructure we have now. "By 1988, he decided to abandon the risky... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
believed that if CityLink did a good job creating public amenities, then the existing housing in the area - much of it dilapidated or overly dense for the local infrastructure - would become more desirable. He has seen that phenomenon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
diversified the company’s interests by adding investments in energy and infrastructure to supplement Sintesa’s holdings in consumer and industrial products as well as property and development. Ten years on, Kamdani notes that implementing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
developing nations will provide a greater service in the long run, Khanna argues, by focusing instead on building the infrastructure required to compete in a global economy. Adapted from Working Knowledge: A Report on Research at Harvard... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart
school in Ghana. There, they handed those Kindles, loaded with books, to a group of sixth graders and their teachers. “We had to provide infrastructure and scaffolding and instruction, and we had to physically move things around and load... View Details