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- 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock
with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
bar and later ran a liquor store. By the time Horn was in the ninth grade, they had moved eight times. While their finances weren’t stable, the family was built on a solid foundation of love. After graduating from Union College, Horn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
it that they have wrong in their assessment? Why shouldn't we be afraid of AI? Dubinsky: Well, I don't think they're all wrong. We should certainly use caution and be thoughtful about new technologies. But I'd say a couple things. First... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
artist’s personal creative journey. Much of it contains little reference to or inspiration from themes of race, social struggle, or migration; rather, some of the artists chose to comment on events of their time or a sense of identity.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
killed. Industry analysts and advertising experts told us that Tylenol was finished." As several HBS case studies point out, Tylenol was the country's best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever at the time... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
for us meant you could agree to the whole although maybe individual parts were difficult for you. The incentive for that was that if we achieved this, implementation became highly probable. It meant that if we failed, or if we had a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
three of us that if we didn't get the job, we had to leave the company. Which was really shocking to me. You know, I, I kind of said, "Look, you're kidding, right?" DM: [laughs] JI: He said, "No, that's the way I want it." And I said,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
wonderful thing, and it’s become extremely effective at fundraising for lots of good causes,” says Reed, who cofounded the charity with his father, Sir Alec Reed (OPM 17, 1991). It was his father’s idea to take the technology used for the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
the ways and means of fostering art, which is often seen as a sort of afterthought of Maslow’s hierarchy, so to speak: Get your basic needs done and then move on to art. And yes, it often happens that way . But I often think of [poet] Bertolt Brecht: ‘In the dark View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
required to produce four reports for Congress, the last of which is due on March 11, 2009. Read the reports at www.cop.senate.gov/. In addition to shoring up ailing banks, should TARP funds be used to help homeowners avoid default on... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
board level ranks? Willie: I think what has to be different today is acknowledgement. You have incidents that get captured on camera. Everybody makes announcements. Everybody says they're going to do better and eventually nothing happens, but what may be different this... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
about what to bring to Burning Man, a headlamp. But you don't need as much as you think you need to survive for a week, actually. It's really surprising when you have to carry it all with you, how little you actually need to have to have a good View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
hundreds of billions annually into western coffers.” Recently, due to its opacity and ease of incorporation (of dummy as well as legitimate companies), Britain’s independent Tax Justice Network placed the state of Delaware at the top of its Financial Secrecy Index,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the imperative to improve school quality and its key importance to the health of a regional economy. She also cited her work in the US Treasury during the financial crisis: “I witnessed that it’s possible to address enormous problems if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
Business School quite closely, and I’m struck by the things that we take for granted that were once considered great innovations. The case method, for example, wasn’t with us from the day Harvard Business School was founded. It took 20... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
meanwhile, were seven times less likely to experience a ransomware attack than the industry average. The company’s advantage, claim cofounders Rotem Iram (MBA 2013) and Roman Itskovich (MBA 2012), is a combination of cybersecurity savvy... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
jobs an average of 11 times in the course of their careers, and beyond the potential to misplace all that paperwork, any number of things can happen before a person reaches retirement age, says Romina Savova (MBA 2012). “The institution... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Nov 2019
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Lifting Fallen Families
forward to becoming a dad to a baby girl that March. “That was a tough one for all of us, just thinking about what was going to happen to that little girl and who was going to take care of her,” says David Kim (MBA 1994), a graduate of the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon