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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Bulletin reportage today centers on accomplishment rather than gender. - Susan Young Technology at HBS Chronicling 75 years of Bulletin coverage of technology highlights the drama View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
most of his young life working to close the divide that separates Israelis and Palestinians. After a career in finance, he left the United States in 2009 to accept a new position overseas. View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
supply by a record 5.3 million units. Harvey with two young beneficiaries of affordable housing. (photo: courtesy Bart Harvey) "Affordable housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship generated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
papers. He noted while “some of the first-year students felt that their painful literary efforts deserved male consideration,” HBS had discovered that “competent young ladies could be employed and trained to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
actually weren’t all that good for many people,” she notes. “There is a more level playing field and meritocracy today. You don’t have to wear a three-piece suit to get the job or while you’re on the job. Diversity View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
1997, Petersmeyer helped found and, for several years, manage America’s Promise, the national youth-development organization. Currently, in addition to overseeing The Fitzie Foundation, whose education grants have helped scores of young... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
education. In turn, as a college graduate who became a federal government employee and a consultant in Washington, Checchi's father set an example that helped pave the way for young Al to win a private... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
really the study of human behavior. Why do people buy and consume? Why do they have preferences? Of all the business disciplines, marketing is the most personal. What I try to do in every case I teach is make the class about human... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
exists a unique opportunity to bring lasting stability to southeastern Europe. Generous international aid and investment in the region, he contends, will benefit the West geopolitically and reward it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
Center up near Harlem. For the next fourteen years, working mostly with children from the ages of 9 to 11, I started a newspaper, a book club, and a creative writing club. Now, when I visit the center, I’ll sometimes pass a View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
much as possible, and for him I think the Vendée Globe is a question of doing it right and making it to the finish.” Doing it right and finishing the job, no matter what the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Dumbarton Oaks energy conference inspired by Energy Future. COURTESY ROBERT STOBAUGH An eighteen-year veteran of the energy and petrochemical industries who had left business to enter Harvard as a doctoral student in international... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
second home there and is a graduate of Brigham Young University), Romney is clearly relishing this latest challenge. "There's fun mixed in with all the hard work," he laughs. "I get to do talk radio, go... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a mainstay of the U.S. economy and, for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was destined to become an important national resource. Indeed, he has... View Details