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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
With a research contract from the United States Intelligence Community, Ginkgo has developed a tool called ENDAR (meaning engineered nucleotide detection and ranking) to detect when an organism has been genetically modified by humans. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
is no simple matter. Those who raise a glass of Jones's Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay are enjoying the delicate outcome of painstaking scientific research, months of careful growing, exceptional attention to detail, and - last but not least - a 25-year View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
with a portfolio of more than $90 billion in loan guarantees, the SBA is responsible for ensuring that 23 percent of all government contracts are awarded to small businesses. "That's $100 billion dollars a year," she stresses. Reflecting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Africa would commit to building development programs in Rwanda, and the officials would work to support the establishment of those programs. “Today is a historic day,” Williams told the assembled press. For NBA Africa, scaling requires... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
nation it gives us better things to eat,” he says, “and the socioeconomic indicators go up after that.” That vision drives Keen as he continues to expand Sacred Seed’s reach through small gardens and larger partners like the Land Institute, a nonprofit View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
their time when contracting out their skills than when permanently employed. "This group clearly chose contracting as a way of working. This is not work of last resort," Bradach notes. The arrangement, he... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
secured and the league is fully capitalized, and with additional revenues derived from television contracts and ticket sales, the NSA, Rottenberg believes, will be on sound financial footing from the outset, unlike most fledgling leagues.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
could have the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. The owner asked Waldron to make a long-term commitment to those same ideals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
its relevance to HBS alumni. What is Baker best known for in library circles? Baker is regarded foremost for having the richest collections in business and business history in the country, if not the world. It is also known for its View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
contract-- and I just started this without thinking in the very first contract I did, but I've kept it ever since. Every player who got sent overseas with one of my contracts has the club View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Centre. “It was time to cash in on my public profile and cement the connection in people’s minds between training and job placement and Sarina Russo,” she explains. To fill the center’s nine vacant floors, Russo won government contracts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
four committees is particularly relevant to you, let me start with an update on the recommendations made by each committee, representing a year’s work by these very committed volunteers. The Alumni Communications Committee, under the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
Skilling’s conduct will reopen discussions of what was the real offense committed by Skilling. The answer to this question is important because many of Skilling’s allegedly fraudulent activities fall into the “shadowed space” or... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
sustainable deals can be applied to international and financial transactions. Also crossing unit lines is Professor Richard E. Walton who contributes expertise in strategic negotiation to the examination of economic and social contracts... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents -... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
geographic spread,” she says, “the virus has extended to affect a wider range of animals than we’ve ever seen before. It’s infecting cats, for example, and has even caused the death of tigers. It has a high fatality rate in humans; we believe that more than half the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on Iraq. For the Japanese in the room, it’s a sobering reminder of how war, and its aftermath, can affect a country and its people for decades. For the American, it indicates a clear need for political change. When her two-year commitment... View Details