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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
Gardener terms: In Rhode Island, she cultivated a “Blooming Romantic” style, an English-inspired look with lots of flower beds and garden paths; in Florida, she was “On the Wild Side,” highlighting the natural wildness of the coast with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Ocean Hall opens at National Museum of Natural History As a Mormon missionary in Wisconsin, Roger Sant enjoyed working with Native Americans. Innately curious, he liked spending time with the people, getting to know them, and helping them... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
by 1.1 percent in towns where the local newspaper had closed up shop. (The magnitude of increase was greatest in communities that lost their one and only paper.) The nature of the violations also became more severe in the wake of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
understand them instead of trying to guess their feelings. Frei: Or, in our language, “center” on them. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes might be a natural instinct for someone trying to understand a person who is different than... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
heard that day stopped Dixon in her tracks. Just 17 at the time, Ella Wylde had the presence and point of view of an old soul, with a natural instinct for songwriting, structure, and arrangement, Dixon says. “Think Alanis Morissette meets... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
numerous book, television, and movie deals, along with several marriage proposals, all of which she has turned down. Six months after the accident, Crotty returned to the United States to become an assistant principal at St. Mark's School of Harlem, where she put to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 May 2013
- News
James Dinan & Elizabeth Miller, both MBA 1985
former investment banker, a current full-time mother, and a member of numerous nonprofit boards, Miller sees their gift as a natural extension of the most important lessons they learned at HBS. “We both have strong feelings about where to... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
knack for recruiting and retaining the right people. And just as he does in all aspects of his life, he brings his natural bias for information-gathering to the task of hiring. “I don’t believe in 51/49 decisions,” he says. “You want to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
some of the personal details of how and where they grew up—and how that shaped the person they are today. Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: John Hess (MBA 1977) is CEO of Hess Corporation, a global independent energy company engaged in the exploration and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
stops the action after just a few seconds. While it’s true that outright violence isn’t in evidence, there is no mistaking that this is a combat sport. The unpredictable, live nature of it is a big draw, to say nothing of watching... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
ran a textile business before taking over Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries, which he continues to run jointly with her mother, Ellen Gordon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, business school was the natural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
people around the world who start their day—we put a smile on their faces and a skip in their step and sort of fuel their biorhythms throughout the day in terms of snacking, which is a natural need for consumers around the world. I can’t... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
clean, and industrious” will reach the top when, in reality, only a fortunate few ever do. Perhaps this knowledge contributes to an unarticulated restlessness that afflicts these decent men (often Wharton, not HBS, grads). Perhaps it is the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
four, so you then have to go engage, ideally, with the top one or two in each of those markets in order to distribute your product.” The disparate nature of the market is why the league is run as a series of games in different locations,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell