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- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
In 2010, she founded Growing Through Arts , a company that helps children learn about and explore the arts through books, e-books, toys, games and mobile phone applications. Saying “I am thrilled to bring the love of dance to children... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
on the project’s new Web site: www.hbs.edu/centennial/im/. It’s participatory history in the making and available to anyone who has an HBS story to tell. The Web site also features a multimedia history of HBS, a gallery of historical photos, and an interactive time... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
of industry such as Andrew Carnegie. "They were interesting stories of integrity that stayed with me," he says. After graduating, Appling spent several years at McKinsey & Company, then took a job at Seimens. In 2006, he began at Bright Star as COO, but the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
Princess ships, the cruise line became synonymous with the onboard high jinks of Captain Stubing, Gopher, and Julie McCoy. "I've had many a person ask me if I'm the Julie of Princess Cruises," laughs Swartz, who joined Princess in 2001... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
has made all the difference. “The hardest part of the job has been coping with the death of patients. On an abstract level, I understand that death is part of this line of work, but at the individual level, it remains profoundly difficult... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company use a search firm to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
revitalize the region’s ecotourism industry. “What was missing in that environment were business skills,” recalls Diamond, whose HBS admissions interview (conducted by phone from the Belize town of Punta Gorda) was interrupted by a balky... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
long-running stories, it is often the episodes that take place off the beaten track that most capture the imagination. Some classmates may check in only once or twice in their careers, while other reports might appear only because a class secretary made a chance,... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
done, but any control I exerted was indirect, through working with, and helping, the producers and directors.” Singer points to a favorite line in Spotlight. “A good case presents a set of facts and pushes the reader to ask certain... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Scott Roth (MBA 1994) in the Black Hills of South Dakota as the pair discussed ways to help. What Kim wanted to do was build a foundation that would aid in funding the college educations of military children who had lost a parent in the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
right now I’m looking out the window at my nine-year-old daughter feeding a baby deer,” says Beilharz in a phone interview. “That’s a huge change from the affluent neighborhood in Austin where we once lived.” Indeed, life was, for many... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
fundamental behavior — how they read. Eager to earn its first revenues, E Ink searched to find a customer that could use an early form of the technology. In 1999, JCPenney placed an order for four displays for use in its shoe departments. While limited to just two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
When I reached the animal, I grabbed his collar and he started swimming over me and past me (just like a drowning human) to shore through the path that I had made through the ice. As we got closer, someone in the crowd accurately threw a View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
five-minute video on your smartphone while waiting in line at the post office or riding the bus to school? No friction at all. This new reality has not gone unnoticed at traditional networks like the Disney/ABC Television Group, where... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
On February 1, 2016, a line of First Nations drummers in traditional regalia—elaborate headdresses, each cheek bearing two red streaks—entered from the rear of a packed hall at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
The silver lining in all of this is that people have realized the emperor has no clothes. For decades, we’ve recognized that healthcare innovates dramatically slower than other industries. Some of that is for good reason, because people’s... View Details