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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent system in the first place?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA ’82) went away to school in Simla, in the Himalayas, and has conducted her career at similarly lofty heights ever since. A Delhi University alumna and the first Indian woman to graduate... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
impact of business and government on society. After graduating from Stanford University in 1971 in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War, she took a freighter to Peru to work for a government agency there that was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes are now articulating their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
According to a report from the University of California Berkeley, “Current carbon sequestration in US cropland soils is only 8.4 million metric tons CO2 Eq. per year, compared to an annual potential of 100 million.” Practices like organic... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
University before heading to HBS. His business thinking was influenced by faculty giants such as Georges Doriot, who taught industrial management and is widely considered the father of venture capital, and commercial banking authority... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
also be enduring as they age? —Eric Martin (MBA 1990) HUBERT: There’s no denying 15-year-olds have a very different daily reality than 34-year-olds. But powerful forces have shaped the contours of the generation, tectonic plates acting on them in shared, View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
successful, but we didn’t know to what degree. We knew that the utility would be universal and that the price point was right. That combination can mean a large market. At the same time, we worried that the product would need revisions in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
exhibited. Influencing Up by Allan R. Cohen (MBA 1961, DBA 1967) and David L. Bradford (Wiley) Following their classic book, Influence without Authority, which provided a universal model for how to influence someone you don't control, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
question we now invite you, our readers, to ponder as well: “What is it about these cases that makes them so enduring?” Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Collaboration between faculty members at Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
people will all mentor others, which amplifies my actions by my choice to invest in you. Chris Howard (MBA 2003) President, Robert Morris University My narrative is the American narrative—from the great-great-grandson of slaves to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
thank them as often as I can." Jenrette, who was a journalism major at the University of North Carolina, is a talented storyteller, and the pages of his book include anecdotes from his Wall Street career, descriptions of gala parties held... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
four qualities—hope, optimism, determination, and self-motivation—that have carried him far from his roots. After leaving home, earning two degrees at universities in India, and working as an international banker for nearly three decades,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
your gun. You have to run your rabbits down and choke ’em to death.’” After proving himself, Hustead became “choker,” then “old chokey.” He eventually took a one-year sabbatical from the oil fields to return to college and graduated from the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
factories that produce fertilizer, to investors like Masha working directly with farmers, to retail-focused suppliers rebuilding local appetite for food grown in their country. Universal among these agribusiness entrepreneurs is a core... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
(HBSAHK) recently held its Sixth Annual Signature Conference, attracting more than 350 participants to network, explore and discuss business trends and forecasts both regionally and globally. “With this annual conference, we aim to connect alumni from HBS and Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Lauren Love (MBA '95) and Rena Clark (MBA '90). Harvard University professor Cornel West, author Les Brown, and David Steward, CEO of St. Louis based Worldwide Technologies, were featured speakers. A new element of this year's conference... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. Faculty Books Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World by... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page