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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of the United Kingdom. We asked... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
full glory of their wealthier pasts. The point is that they are becoming places where people want to live, shop, run businesses, and go to school." At HBS, a number of faculty are engaged in research and teaching projects that treat these... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Howard Stevenson and Bill Sahlman The conference kicked off with Professors Stevenson and Sahlman presenting a master class on the pandemic’s lessons for entrepreneurs and investors. The virtual format allowed the audience a unique opportunity to interact with these... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
as part of the School’s New Orleans Service Immersion. “We knew we wanted to go back right after we returned from that first trip,” says D’Avella. “This year we did a pre- and post-immersion seminar with faculty to tie in the experience... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
event came together when the Rock Center’s director, Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), suggested the club seize the chance to connect with and learn from the HBS faculty and senior staff while they were in London. “Obviously, to have the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
summit, not the solution. Clyde A. Lofdahl (MBA ’64) Littleton, CO Do the Right Thing Something is missing. In time of crisis, reflection is essential but so is introspection as a part of it. Your December articles about the financial debacle make no mention that maybe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
enrolled at Penn State where he majored in economics and took a couple of courses from Lawrence Fouraker, who was an economics professor there. “Fouraker wrote me a letter of recommendation to HBS while unbeknownst to me, he was about to join the HBS View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
time it takes to handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." Wingspanbank.com HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments for a dozen years before... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
met Jimmy on one of the first days. He was anxious to start a rugby club, so I came out for it. Johnstone: Very early on, I got a call from Chaffee Hall, the dean of students, a nice guy, very laid-back. He said, "The faculty has heard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
services.” At HBS, cities and the environment are also a focus of a number of faculty members, especially those affiliated with the newly launched Business and Environment Initiative (BEI). Established to increase understanding about the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). The pair first learned of the VLJ opportunity as second-year students and partnered on a six-month field study with the supervision of former HBS faculty member John Wells to study the efficiencies that Wal-Mart... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
essentially looking for the kind of people who would have wanted to sign on with Columbus for his first voyage west. Sahlman: When I first proposed to teach a course in Entrepreneurial Finance, I was told it was the stupidest idea in the world. One tenured View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
HBS faculty members and doctoral students with a combined expertise in energy issues, political science, and technology. “Our goal was to produce a plain English book that would provide a framework for thinking about the energy future,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
respectfully debate the most challenging issues here, and identify potential solutions here. With HBS faculty and students driving the conversations, we are optimistic that HBS and Harvard can be at the forefront of new conversations,... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
HBS faculty members with various perspectives on the issue provide some insights on these questions. A Sense of Purpose "I see the movement to incorporate more of a spiritual feeling in business as a reflection of people's age-old need to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
for the building to have an academic anchor with an auditorium and study rooms.” Neither of those decisions came easily, says Professor Emeritus Steven Wheelwright, the lead faculty representative on the planning committee who is now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Stevenson and practitioner-academic Bill Poorvu had taught in recent years; it had been true for the Starting New Ventures course that former faculty member Pat Liles had run years earlier; it had even been true for some of the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Illustrations by the Voorhes Edited by Julia Hanna Complete and utter defeat was something Christina Wallace (MBA 2010) had never really experienced. Academically advanced and musically gifted, she attended Michigan’s Interlochen Arts Academy before earning a double... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios