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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
(“Rocky”) Aoki fell in love with New York City. The son of a restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father’s first establishment. Watching View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
classroom was, in the words of former American Association for Higher Education president Russell Edgerton, like watching “Rostropovich and Bernstein conduct a symphony.” Six feet tall and loose-limbed, he was constantly on the move,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS
university community," Dr. Chao, an industrialist, said of his late wife, a scholar in Asian history and literature. "I would like to dedicate this contribution to memorialize and honor my beloved wife and soul mate." The Honorable Elaine... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
much unstoppable when he sets his sights on something. In the past, that has included carving green space out of Atlanta’s urban wastelands; writing legislation to preserve Georgia’s Native American archaeological sites threatened by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
didn’t help her self-esteem when she fumbled her first cold call. Not one to hold a “pity party,” Lambert joined an effort in 1967 to recruit black students from other schools (the number swelled 450 percent in the Class of 1970) and was a founding member of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
A Fine Collection
into “the narrowest people alive” — the Williamses sought to widen their social circle, according to an article in the New York Times (March 17, 2002). They gravitated toward the art world and began collecting prints, eventually amassing some six thousand works, mostly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Replica Bell for Baker Library; Historic Original Returns to Russia
In August, the bell atop Baker Library was replaced by a replica as the original, along with seventeen other bells at Harvard University, is being returned to Russia. Amid fears that the Soviets might melt them down, the bells were sold in 1930 to an View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
banking whiz, Wasserstein was purchasing or founding other below-the-radar media properties, including the American Lawyer and the Deal. Asked about New York’s storied history and its role in helping bring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
entrepreneurial finance professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School. In view of this year's conference theme, HBSAAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) notes that Chicago was chosen "in part because of its history as a primary... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
wrote in Newsweek (June 14, 2004), will hinge more than anything else on one question: “How much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected — and on terms that Americans had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
trek to summit Kala Patthar, a mountain towering above Mount Everest Base Camp (17,598 feet) in the Himalayas. Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991) (Sarah Crichton Books) Spar explores how View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
inbox is filled with success stories that describe his efforts as “holy work” and “nothing short of a miracle.” One person wonders, “Do you have any idea how many lives you’ve changed?” Another researcher comments, “From medical history... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes account of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
formed. American Business, 1920–2000: How It Worked by Thomas K McCraw (The American History Series/Harlan Davidson) The past decade has brought such enormous change to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
advancement of African Americans in the business world. "Being the first Fitzhugh professor is a particular honor," Thomas noted during a recent interview. "He spent much of his life trying to facilitate the creation of a more diverse and... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Smith’s plan included developing an Explore Your Family History Center, which... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli