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- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
experienced workers retire or move on? Leonard and coauthor Sylvia Sensiper examine such questions in a 1998 HBS working paper that was published as "The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation" in the spring 1998 California...
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Judith A. Ross
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
overlapping board work and corporate partnerships. “If I wasn’t the first person to call, I was darn close,” he says. “I asked her what she was going to do.” “I told Jeffrey I was going to retire and think about what else to do,” Whitman...
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- 09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact
the 2008 financial crisis, it became clear that the organization’s revenue would be in decline. In response, NYPL reduced its head count from around 2,400 people to 1,750 over the course of five years, without any layoffs, through attrition and View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
certain wariness of what one alum referred to as “the dreaded ‘R’ word.” “I look forward to being completely retired — after my funeral, maybe,” wrote one member of the Class of 1960 for his 40th Reunion profile. “Retirement is not on my...
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- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
jungle for four or five days. Kaziranga National Park is a favorite. It’s been one of India’s great success stories for rhino conservation.” Back to top Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic, Inc. Family ties: “My...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
amount they paid for newspapers to 25¢ a 100, I retired from the business. I returned to the Business School as a student in 1962. Of course, Harvard Way Extension was long gone by then. So it was a real thrill to see the picture in the...
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- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the material. He had a European background and a broad knowledge of international affairs and business that came through in any discussion.” “He was my favorite teacher, because he was so tough," Andreas Andresen, a retired German...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Darden worked for nearly 25 years before retiring in 2008. His service to HBS continued in the form of two, three-year terms (1995–2000) as a member of the School’s Visiting Committee. As the first African American woman to graduate from...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working life to something totally...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
assignments relating to organization and training, and eventually assumed command of the 20th Infantry Regiment. In 1965, I retired from the military and became a professor of management and business at Ohio University. Two years later, I...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built
and landscaping. Donham’s blueprint followed the arc of the river, which subsequent architects have maintained.” Along with his imprint on the School’s campus and pedagogy, Donham’s personal influence can still be felt at HBS. After his 1942 View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they’re different,” says Lang, now a Catalyst Honorary Director since retiring as president and CEO. But why? “In Hebrew school, I was told that because I was a girl I could not be a leader. I think I became a feminist when I was about...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated financial...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted...
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- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
retired and who can have financial security in their golden years because their finances were managed well. It could be a young person buying their first stock. It could be a small-business owner needing capital. If those people couldn’t...
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Margie Kelley