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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Virts (GMP 11, 2011) Retired NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander The first book I read in kindergarten was about the Apollo astronauts who went to the moon, and I was hooked. Growing up, I had posters of airplanes and...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
business world and academia had a distinct advantage. He went back to the Pentagon to try to change the way the military engaged with civilians, then to serve at the White House. In 2007, he retired as an Air Force Deputy Assistant...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Astronaut, Apollo 13 Lovell Read complete profile. In 1970 the world watched as Commander James Lovell and his crew scrambled to convert their lunar module into a lifeboat when their cryogenic oxygen system failed. It was Lovell who coolly oversaw the mission’s safe...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
he was simply “a student of teaching,” adding, “We really know so very little about the teaching-learning process.” Although Christensen retired in 1990, as an emeritus professor he continued to write, teach, and serve as case-method...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”...
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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
- 13 Sep 2019
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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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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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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 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
featuring women protagonists -with initial support from retired Kmart executive Marjorie Alfus and the Committee of 200 (a national organization of women business executives), the School has developed over three hundred cases that feature...
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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
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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 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 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 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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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less may result in less business,...
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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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