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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be of service... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the glow of his smartphone, ONE FC... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that coping with cancer was one of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
he explains, "We had our best year ever. We borrowed in US dollars and invested in Brazilian reais. It was incredible." By 1997, the once small Pactual had grown into a large institution. When his business partner wanted to expand into... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
entrepreneurs, successful CEOs of other food service companies. If you look around the restaurant industry, you will find it populated with Dunkin’ executives who left us better than they found us, and went... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Mind Your Manners
charges $16,000 for a three-month "hostess course" on manners, entertaining, and decorum. Including, but by no means limited to, how to use a knife and fork, the teachings of her institute, Ho explained, constitute "the first step in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its own end-user products. Ballard says the technology rollout and capitalization process will take place over... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
housing, educational, employment, and social service programs. "Fountain House facilitates recovery and rehabilitation by building self-esteem," explains de Chazal, whose interest in the international organization was inspired by his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opened in Singapore in June 2015, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) celebrated a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s point person, this first-ever gathering in Asia for graduates of View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030.... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
here. Alumni really want us to keep in touch.” As for the future, Dolan is taking one step at a time and appreciating the opportunity he has been given. He says, “I can now give something back to the School, while meeting fascinating... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
systematic underpayments and overcharges. This wealth was wrongfully accumulated using many forms of the abuse of dominance. Accounting for Colonialism provides estimates that will be helpful to understanding the growing debate on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
an important set of eyes and ears to our external constituency." Their ideas and perspectives "help us think about the direction the School should take in a very complex and ever-changing social and economic environment." Through these... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Educational Services; Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
unsuspecting students. In the September 2004 Bulletin, Bill Dunaway (MBA ’64) recalled his first experience with Levitt: “We were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene. Then Ted Levitt ate me alive. I View Details