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- 24 Oct 2012
- News
How 'luck' can be used to enhance success
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
H. Stevenson, for instance, discussed the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and beyond. Professor Malcolm S. Salter addressed "Facing the Modern Industrial Revolution," focusing on the tools established companies can use... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
callers the opportunity to purchase the relevant CDs. The *CD service "enables real-time impulse buying," Chen told the Philadelphia Inquirer (February 11, 1999). "It is a lost sale if you can't act on it." Currently being tested in Philadelphia, *CD uses computerized... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Countries’ disease-surveillance capacity can be strengthened with support from partners and technical agencies, to go along with their own investment. Compensation for farmers could encourage early reporting of outbreaks. Without timely View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
had to nudge myself. I didn't have the parents nudging, but I had to just go deep within myself and say, "This is where I should be." Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
of previous history. In the next ten years, it will surpass even that growth. "The second element," he continued, "is the voracious industrial and consumer appetite for this technology applied to everyday... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Well-Tuned Life
CARLO AND OLIVIA FRANZBLAU: family harmony. At age 13, Carlo Franzblau (MBA ’88) was given the lead in his summer camp’s musical production of Bye Bye Birdie on the condition that he not do any solos. Ever since, when moved to song, he’s never been quite sure if he was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
mingled technological achievement and pure courage. It’s hard not to respect each and every one of them. Did you know what you wanted to be when you were growing up? I wanted to be the center on the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. And if... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the plant operates on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
Jeff Norton (MBA ’03) credits the old Choose Your Own Adventure book series, where young readers could pick different plot directions, with making a difference in his life. “I was a reluctant reader as a boy,” Norton told Toronto’s Globe and Mail (September 23, 2006).... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- News
The Case for Blockbusters
- 06 Jan 2011
- News
An Independent Niche
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
to catch up to the technology of today.” She cited the Seaport District as an example, where small condominiums sell for more than $1 million, but builders are not required to make their projects energy efficient, nor are incentives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations,... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
community has failed,” she said. “If we want to solve climate change, we can. It's completely plausible to change. We have the technology to fix this problem. Electric and autonomous vehicles and ride sharing are coming fast. Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
War History
In September, with President Obama trying to rally support for military action against Syria, the media repeatedly sought out Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980), the author of eight books about American presidents. Beschloss noted that the Founding Fathers "very specifically... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
Lee Fellowship recipient Shamika Lee (MBA ’08) spoke at the MBA Fellowship Dinner in mid-April, an annual event where fellowship students and donors get to know each other. “On behalf of all the students here tonight, let me say that we do not take your investment... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
predecessor to the Securities and Exchange Commission In 1938 he was informally offered the post of ambassador to the Soviet Union. The Russians had already been sounded out and had accepted Weinberg, but when he realized that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons