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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
result of that meeting, and subsequent introductions, Levitt found a home in the Marketing area at HBS. “That sequence of events had a powerful effect on him,” remembers Peter Levitt. “He learned the power of writing.” In 1985, HBS... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
old person's car. They sell to a whole range in their market. And what all these companies do effectively is they have intergenerational design teams that help develop products for older adults. And another area where we see stealth design is in View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
buying to operations management, for nearly nine years. She finally felt like the biggest challenges were behind the company. The year 2020 was going to be stable, she recalls thinking. But by late 2019, it was clear that would not be the case, as the View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Starbucks the world's fastest- growing global brand. "We're fortunate because coffee and the coffeehouse concept have cross-cultural relevance," Smith observes, predicting that the company will have a presence in fifty countries by 2005.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
1983, Middlebrooks had envisioned that after having children she would "take six months off and then get a nurse or live-in maid." The reality, she reports, was even better. "My sister-in-law was staying at home with her own children and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon purchasing a View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
is what will keep it alive. While it seems an unlikely pairing when looking at content, Clinkscales admits that the similarities between Vibe/Spin Ventures and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia cannot be ignored. Just as the queen of home... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
for example, became Jefferson’s adopted home following his surgery and recuperation. As a White House Fellow working in the Department of Commerce, he organized the historic first trip of the White House Fellows to Hawaii. Within two... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
your own, authentic way. Whatever your field or family structure, you will learn to cope with transitions at home and at work, deal with guilt and worry, negotiate for advancement and flexibility, and much more. Written by Daisy Dowling,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
the country and found there is currently greater support for government taking swift action to address the problem.” The panel then explored investment strategies and how business leaders consider climate change in long-term strategic... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
Lucille Meyer (SEP '99) and her boss, South African President Thabo M. Mbeki, know they have a tough act to follow. While Mbeki's predecessor, the legendary Nelson Mandela, basked in the adulation of a country savoring newly won freedoms... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but meals and sleep still occur... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White speaks to WuDunn about what led to the fragile economic conditions of blue-collar America, what solutions are being developed to address those issues, and how the current COVID-19 crisis has revealed how much the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Seligman gives the reasons why she loves living in Israel, among which are that it is difficult to be bored there and that the country is so informal. Israel is also where she raised her children and found work that widened her horizons.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
effort to elevate the at-times contentious public debate over the conduct and operation of multinational corporations, this edited volume examines key questions about their role, both in their home countries... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
should have a natural home at HBS. How is BiGS already shaping education at the School? It’s very early, but already we’re seeing some really interesting pieces of the program come together, one of which is bringing in visiting faculty.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
read "Go home Googlers." It was a daily reminder, she says, that something was broken. That this great technological revolution just wasn't working for everyone. Today, Ingersoll works as COO of Code for America, a San Francisco-based... View Details