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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
The Amazing Race. Dubbed Team Chippendales by their rivals, the openly gay couple won the television audience’s favor and took the top prize in a 44,000-mile race across four continents. “In the last leg, the two overcame Arndt’s reckless... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
States from Taiwan as an eight-year-old speaking no English, the New York Times (February 26, 2001) reported. “I was very lucky to grow up in a family that believed in hard work and education,” said Chao, who favors outreach and access... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
interested in classical music. And HBS graduates have played a key role in all of this.” Indeed, according to Slavet, field-study and class-project recommendations by HBS students “laid the groundwork for what we’ve become — an online social entrepreneurship venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
Unfortunately, there were huge discrepancies in the way circuit courts resolved these cases, so lawyers used to game the system to end up in front of a judge who they thought would be favorable to their case. Beyond that, Supreme Court... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
the gender biases of those who control them, then historically male places will tend to be harder on women and to promote only those women who essentially behave "like men." Conversely, once an organization becomes dominated by women, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Presidential Adviser
When President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) went on the road in early January to promote his stalled economic policies, he was accompanied by his top economic adviser, Allan Hubbard (MBA ’72). It’s Hubbard’s job on such trips to sit down with... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and T-shirts. Going against the corporate norm is nothing new for Scher, who shunned the usual perks and salary an HBS graduate typically commands in favor of the glamourless, risky, and low-paying job of starting up a company that wasn't... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called agency theory, developed and View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
have been campaigns in favor of automobile insurance reform and against smoking. As told in the book, both efforts were conducted with typical frenetic panache. Tobias, whose principal residence is Miami, spent more than $250,000 of his... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural methods and educate others about indigenous culture—the seed, if you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
uniforms, sunscreen, insecticides, and nutritious compact food, including the infamous K rations. In one confidential project, Doriot oversaw the invention of Doron, lightweight plastic armor that was named in his honor. For his achievements, Doriot was View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
uninsured residents, and a heavily Democratic state legislature favoring reform and universal coverage, Massachusetts was well-disposed to make dramatic changes. When Romney couched reform and universal coverage in terms of individual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
not luck. It’s the ability to recognize opportunity. Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ I was ready.” Indeed, he was. Summoning his HBS skills and McKinsey experience, Rogers quickly went about rounding up the $1... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
what would make people join our clubs and buy our products. Plus, it became fashionable to promote women, and there I was with my HBS MBA. Cathy Benko (MBA 1989), vice chairman and chief talent officer, Deloitte Consulting, Foster City,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
central belief is that humanity is meant to live in unity and harmony. As a leader of his local Spiritual Assembly, he conducts interfaith and intercultural (especially with Chinese) discussion groups and has continued to promote social... View Details