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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo Uyterhoeven Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
decline: an eroding educational system relative to other top nations, a talent drain, the drop-off of spending for basic R&D, and a lackluster telecommunications infrastructure. Meanwhile, Finland — with the same population as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
article in a business journal that gives as strong, comprehensive, and accurate a depiction of corrupt business practices as “Show Me the Money.” My own career was mostly in the Foreign Service when I had... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
great." Learned at HBS As most people move through the educational system, they become aware of what they can't do — their options gradually narrow down. My experience was just the opposite. HBS expanded my horizons by making me aware of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Ramchandran Jaikumar, the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration and a renowned authority on manufacturing management and technology, died on February 10 of a heart attack while mountain climbing in Quito, Ecuador. He was 53... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the remotest corners of the... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a life of regret, he acted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
the organization as it has forged educational partnerships with numerous businesses and become the country's leading nonprofit resource for breast cancer information and education. NABCO is now a powerful... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
To cap his already impressive business career, David Price is unabashed about his final goal. "I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company," he declares, exuding the energy and optimism reminiscent of a newly minted MBA. Price makes... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
strictures, the lack of schools, and her poverty, her education almost certainly will end there. Her family will be reluctant to let her go away to school because they will not be able to prot ect her.” The eldest of five children, Van... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
problem is likely to get worse because of a widening income gap and a shrinking stock of low-income units. As a result, business may eventually have to take a more proactive stance, as it has with education... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
December. Business was one of several issues touched on by the 61-year-old veteran Communist Party technocrat, an engineer and geologist by training. The second-highest official in China’s hierarchy, Wen is charged with economic oversight... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
— a common experience that might bind the entrepreneurs I wrote about and give the reader some focus. Serendipitously, I came across an article from Fortune, written in 1999 at the height of the Internet bubble. “For new MBAs at Harvard View Details
- 26 Sep 2016
- News
Schools for the Future
Sunil B. Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) is founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, he talks about building schools to improve the lives of thousands of children and families. “Everybody builds their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
come to an end. It has been replaced by a system of fragmented markets and relatively unstandardized products that has led to intensified competition, a more unstable economy, and greater business uncertainty. This rising uncertainty, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with preparing her for her current post. Her... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
think of Baltimore, you think of crime, you think of drugs, you think of homicides—of people who don’t have jobs. When you think of young people here and what they are capable of, you don’t think they could go to Harvard Business School.... View Details