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- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
parents were both the first in their families to go to college. They met in high school, where his mother was the class valedictorian and his father was the salutatorian. “My narrative is the American narrative,” observes Howard, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
enterprise. The lessons were dynamic and the perspectives were wide-ranging, including those from Professor Gail McGovern, who is now CEO of the American Red Cross. After a summer internship in the credit-card division at Citigroup,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Just Has to Make Money by Robert C. Hacker (MBA 1972) (North American Publishing Company) Nobody has more stories than agency account people. Having been inside hundreds of clients’ organizations and six agencies and seen it all, Hacker... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
today's government for the better. Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company By Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) with Amy Wallace Simon & Schuster In September 2001, Jeff Immelt replaced the most famous CEO in history, Jack Welch,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
attractive. Match.com, which got its start in 1995 when only 14 percent of American adults used the Internet, began to move online dating into the mainstream. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a boom in dating sites, such as eHarmony,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
leaders has been at the core of HBS since its founding in 1908. It’s in the DNA of the School, says Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development and author of a highly acclaimed history of American business... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
address on leadership and responsibility, Frazier spoke about co-founding OneTen, a coalition of leading organizations committed to “upskilling, hiring, and promoting one million Black Americans into family-sustaining jobs” over the next... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
much air to breathe and nothing between a little girl and the innocence of life. The wind is inextricably part of my family tree. Like a crazy, unpredictable cousin, it’s always welcome, but, as my life reveals, it’s sometimes dreaded. Faculty Books View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
corporations. After coming into vogue in the early 1980s when American businesses were threatened by Japanese competition, intrapreneurship was eclipsed by the reengineering and downsizing phenomena of the early '90s. Now, however, it is... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
which include spaces that accommodate the larger pieces in van Caldenborgh’s permanent collection, such as “Open Ended,” a steel sculpture by American artist Richard Serra that is 13 feet high and nearly 60 feet long, and weighs 216... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
as all of the equipment necessary to do this, but aren’t able to buy additional land,” says Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model, meaning that because it’s bigtime American agriculture we can do a series of these $100... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
the boards of Sarah Lawrence College (his late wife, Mary Lawrence Clifford, was Sarah Lawrence’s great-great-granddaughter) and the American Museum of Natural History, where, as a member of the Executive Committee and cochairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
someone else has run away with the whole market." Venkatesan points to Apple, which waited for better distribution systems in India before it established its presence. "But Samsung didn't wait, and has the whole market now." The book, he says, is a "wake-up call to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
strengths and interests blossomed more in a creative, flexible environment than in a large, corporate structure. She left Wall Street for a job as a case writer at INCAE, the Central American business school based in Costa Rica. In... View Details