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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into a deflation View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I was watching CNN in the airport and saw graphic reports on the View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
yet I was one of the few women who made it through the glass ceiling to the top of international football. Until one day, the rug was pulled off from underneath me, and I found myself out of a job. There was a horrible social media defamation campaign against me. I... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
experience. Such experience has served him well as he has introduced numerous pieces of legislation that have, among other things, repealed inheritance taxes (the so-called death tax), banned taxes on Internet commerce, and limited... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
so close to death was a wake-up call," she says. "It made me reevaluate how I wanted to spend the rest of my life." Upon reflection, she decided to leave the corporate world and take time off to write, with the plan of eventually starting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
Edmondson and Joe Fuller picked it up after Garvin’s death in 2017 and retitled it Becoming a General Manager—and then retitled it again, Making Difficult Decisions, in 2023. Zuzul joined this year, and it’s been a happy reunion with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
Washington for four years. That was the first time I was on my own, and I realized I really do love this work, the public service aspect, and the business challenge itself. I also realized I'm pretty good at it. THE BIGGEST killer of family businesses, other than the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
mingling with celebrities was all in a day’s work. “My ambition to do something uniquely creative was born at an early age,” says Wilson, who often hung out on the sets of hits such as Till Death Us Do Part (later remade as the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
geographic spread,” she says, “the virus has extended to affect a wider range of animals than we’ve ever seen before. It’s infecting cats, for example, and has even caused the death of tigers. It has a high fatality rate in humans; we... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
death -- from antiaircraft artillery that filled the sky with exploding shells or surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that, in Baldwin's words, "looked like burning telephone poles" as they streaked through the air. Maneuvering the plane to... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
composition of the student body, as closely as teaching objectives permit, by the 2022-2023 academic year. Read a Q&A with the student leaders and MBA Faculty Chair Jan Rivkin and RC Chair Matt Weinzierl. AUGUST 6 In response to the tragic View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business School, the cause of View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
it is for every person on the team to feel they can speak up and challenge the established points of view from leadership. We may not be putting people in life or death situations in spaceships, but I do think the success of the VR... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
HBS Class Notes so appealing? Part of the answer is that they're just plain fun to read (see sidebar). The earliest HBS Class Notes, penned by the magazine's staff, were a fairly predictable listing of address changes, marriage announcements, and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
resulted in 96,402 potentially preventable deaths from 2006 to 2008. Health care will change, because it must. Designing that transition with minimum threat and maximum benefit for patients is a delicate management challenge that will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
ice and an accessible Arctic, it is still a cold, dark, forbidding place that requires special provisions and extensive preparation. Last spring, we mourned the deaths of two sailors on a British submarine; the summer before that, two... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
life and mature spiritually. I'm much gentler and happier now." Stuart teaches marketing at the University of South Florida. photo courtesy James Stuart Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68) "About twenty years ago the death of my parents and a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
keep as many people as possible alive and healthy, and reduce the number of deaths and hospitalizations. Second lesson from Shackleton: you never vary from that mission, because so much else depends on achieving it. For example, wrestling... View Details