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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
tough. It was tough. Julia Hanna: When he graduated from HBS in 1970, Gerry Schwartz (MBA 1970) passed up the offers he got to work on Wall Street to join a land development company in Florida. It seemed like a quick, sure path to... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 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
- 12 Mar 2020
- News
Real Leaders: Rachel Carson Seeds the Environmental Movement
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
life-threatening situations, he had reached the top of Mt. Everest, the earth's highest point. By doing so, he became only the 24th person in history to "summit" the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Wendel was the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
banking and finance. Remembering George F. Baker: After his death in 1931, the boards of many of the dozens of companies and philanthropies Baker had served on wrote tributes that are stored in a finely crafted chest, now part of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
practice.) It’s not just Berman’s own history and hope for the future success of children that motivates him—he notes that there is real science behind his belief. In 2000, for example, researchers found that 120 hours of chess... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
History and Ourselves 2008 Selected lead editor of Graham and Dodd's classic Security Analysis, 6th edition Seth Klarman wrote the book on value investing. Literally. His 1991 Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
could be seen as a vestigial remnant of the six years he spent as a consultant at Bain & Company after leaving HBS. “Once a Bainie, always a Bainie. And I’m married to one as well,” he laughs, referring to the company’s chairman, Orit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
experiences founding companies such as Blue Apron, Rent the Runway, Gilt, and AdoreMe, asking what they discovered along the way and what they wish they had known beforehand. The authors showcase the founders in their own words and give... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
layoffs and lost revenues, for example - weak companies are artificially supported," he explains. "Other firms won't or can't restructure themselves or exit unprofitable businesses because they are too set in their ways, lack sound... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
The Life And Legacy Of Jack Welch
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
Ben Feder (MBA 1991) and Victoria Lindenbaum Feder (MBA 1994) When Ben Feder attended his 25th Reunion, he was inspired by something that then Dean Nitin Nohria said: “HBS has the power to change lives.” Feder, a history major at Columbia... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
served as moderator. Among the issues the panelists explored: the key drivers and culture of innovation; the opportunities and challenges of AI, blockchain, and IoT; how companies can prepare for disruption; and how to leverage new... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1943 Born, Chicago, Illinois 1965 Earns AB, History and Literature, Radcliffe College 1966 Joins PHI as Technical Editor 1968 Joins Cambridge Computer Associates as Technical Writer... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young