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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
to the United States. Thanks to the Harfs’ efforts, DKMS has facilitated some 26,000 transplants and now has over 2.8 million registered bone marrow donors. Seth Klarman, MBA 1982 President, The Baupost Group, LLC At his desk on the View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Thinking Green
Sciences and the Design, Medical, and Law Schools for a Harvard Thinks Green forum in Sanders Theatre. “This transition we face as an economy, as a world is going to hit every major industry,” said Henderson. Kaplan, a member of a Harvard committee on greenhouse gases,... View Details
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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
that organizes coffee farmers, links them directly to coffee importers, and guarantees a premium over the prevailing price being paid on the international market. Starbucks has been quick to respond in times of crisis, too. When terrorists attacked the World View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
the social ROI of their services. “We’re helping one of our new clients to quantify the benefit it produces for its stakeholders, which will help in both management and marketing,” Chussil says, noting that the current projects are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
co-working/accelerator space Grand Central Tech in Manhattan. Three teams made the final cut to advance to the Global Rounds. George Hessler (MBA 1985) was named the regional winner with Magma Trading, “a trading platform that allows... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’ phones are within 30 feet of one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
lessening of hostilities is achievable. One proposal that was raising hopes in mid-March was the Saudi initiative that offered Israel normalization of relations with Arab countries in exchange for Israel's withdrawal to its pre-1967... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Ford, for the auto itself and his influence on the work force," while another noted Ford's "perfection of the use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, concepts employed by essentially all of business today." Alfred P. Sloan of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
noteworthy. In a plenary session titled "The Economic Crisis in Asia," Sugisaki urged Asian authorities to lower barriers to trade and investment and to close insolvent financial institutions and restructure those that are weak. "The key... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
initiative's rapid progress has been aided greatly by the strength of the technology groundwork that has been established at the School over the past few decades. "This is not something brand new," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott, noting that SFP can document up to 30 tons per hectare of carbon dioxide capture at its farms. In addition to capturing carbon dioxide, organic farming cuts down on demand for artificial, petroleum-based fertilizers. “This is the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
and prepared to return home with a new perspective. The bonds forged during this experience remain, as the group stays in contact. Gower notes that the one-on-one coaching that he and the other participants received with an experienced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
in Michigan, Williams witnessed the satisfaction that his father and grandfather, both primary care physicians, got from helping others heal. This was his chance to feel that, too. "It was really an exposure to the kind of impact you could have in this business," View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
he went on a trip he’d find a love note in his pajamas,” says Olsen. Despite Doriot’s singular talents, he was far from perfect. ARD should have never been incorporated as a publicly traded company. Doriot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this particular exercise has produced a blizzard of multicolored Post-It... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
chance to work as a special assistant to the chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission in D. C. The chief accountant's name was John. And I said, “John, what do you want me to do?” And he said, “Well, we'll sort of make... View Details