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- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because Schultz, like a latter-day Johnny... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
team. Hyman writes that it will serve the best interests of its 1,200 employees, without whom Rent the Runway would not exist, but she also expects it to benefit the company itself—in the form higher retention rates, lower training costs,... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Interest Group (SIGs), and Liaisons on the same day around the world. All HBS alumni are invited to this evening of informal networking and engagement. One participating club, the HBS Club of Washington DC, held a mixer at the DC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
2016 The Atlantic awarded Magazine of the Year Chairman, Atlantic Media David Bradley sits at an Arlington, Virginia, diner, his papers spread out in front of him. Dapper and courteous, he evokes a different era as he takes notes on index... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
entrepreneurial ventures and family businesses. Asked to head SCMP in 1981, he shifted the program's focus toward the interests and needs of owner/managers. He devised a unique schedule spread over three... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up his majority stake so that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
“dirt” spread to a depth of three and a half inches. Planted at eight-inch intervals are 9,000 tiny perennials, including eight varieties of drought-tolerant sedum, a low-growing, flowering plant with water-storing leaves. Rather than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Everyone gets to be an undertaker,” he says, pointing through a windowed hive at a bee dragging away a dead peer. Price has been spreading his love of honeybees for 10 years through his Sweet Virginia Foundation, which is dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
personal and career development. Join a well-managed, growing organization. Keep family and friends first. Find your own way of giving back. Pro bono work I have three interests — education, the environment, and health care — but so far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
Hendrickson says: with personal connections. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has developed strong connections in the Valley, so the team started with his network and then spread out, meeting with startup founders and venture capitalists.... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
remarks. “It is a powerful tool to catalyze a global shift in how societies view the concept of competitiveness.” Porter says that he's encouraged by the strong interest in the course and agrees that it could be View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
Cambodian invasion was launched, unrest on university campuses spread rapidly through the country. At HBS, in the wake of the May 4 student shootings at Kent State, a group of over a thousand people gathered spontaneously on the lawn in... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
that many people (including people a lot smarter than I am) have about the basic feasibility of sustaining and spreading current American habits of material consumption. I have spent some considerable effort trying to get a handle on the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
free trade zones began the transformation of China’s state-run economy. In the 1990s, you saw a significant easing of restrictions on startups—first in the restaurant industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
more than one author; and that you need to mind the brand.” The case also highlights the spread of the blockbuster phenomenon. Ten years ago, a book was considered a success if it sold 200,000 copies. Today, the bar has been raised to 1.5... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
shaping the business environment and, in turn, influencing performance at the industry and firm level. Since joining the faculty in 1989, Emmons has conducted extensive research on the interaction between government policy and business View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
program that draws on the latest research and thinking of HBS faculty. A new program, called Innovations in Management, covers five topics in individual sessions spread over a five-month period in New York City. Alumni can attend all five... View Details