Life of Alan

(tags: Photography)

(tags: Magazines)

A quarter-century after he changed everything by summiting Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, Reinhold Messner is looking fit, feeling adventurous, and acting about as mellow as a snapping turtle. Ah, well: Great men aren’t always sweethearts—

(tags: People)

(tags: Diplomacy)

Black smoke billowing from tailpipes into the humid, tropical air was once a Bangkok trademark. But a decade and a half after Thailand began a battle for better air quality, this erstwhile icon of smog has emerged as a role model for Asia’s pollution-chok

(tags: Thailand)

Vladimir Putin has presided over a staggering economic boom in the six years since he took control of the Kremlin. Meanwhile, a dozen of his critics have been assassinated and the country’s vast natural resources are in the pockets of a chosen few. Mi

(tags: Russia)

November 23, 1984: Doug Flutie’s “Hail Mary” finds Gerard Phelan to give BC a huge 47-45 win over Miami.

(tags: Football)

(tags: Williams)

(tags: Williams)

Until one day several years ago, I, like most people, harbored no ill feelings toward the state of Delaware. I suppose in some vague sense I thought of it as harmless and even endearing, the way you tend to regard other small things, such as Girl Scouts o

(tags: Delaware)

(tags: China Internet_Policy)

When you’re traveling around the world, it’s good to know that there are public transit systems available to help you get where you want to go. Underground subway systems offer the convenience of getting where you want when you want without the hassle of

(tags: Mass_Transit)

Harvard Business School Professors Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee prepared this case. Senior Multimedia Producer Melissa Dailey and Experience Designer Peggy Nelson assisted. This case was developed from published sources. HBS cases are developed

(tags: Internet_Usage)

(tags: Higher_Education)

The media imperialism thesis is the most widespread systemic account of cultural globalization. This is in spite of the fact that various ethnographic studies of culture consumption continue to produce evidence that shows that the predictions derived from

(tags: Globalization)

(tags: People)