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- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
One of the cultural amenities of life on the HBS campus is the availability of free music concerts in the Class of 1959 Chapel. Designed by Moshe Safdie in 1992, the chapel and its adjoining clock tower were funded by members of the MBA Class of 1959. After it was... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
are very important. One is generalist investment skills combined with industry specialization. A balance between investment prowess and operating knowledge is important as well, since we really do typically lead or colead our investments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
fan to be comfortable with consuming musical experiences in a virtual format.” —Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) Dan Morrell: Artist and activist Madame Gandhi got her big break in the music industry when she was invited to join the group MIA on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
they don't always translate well into politics, Tumulty believes, "in part because politicians are held to a level of second-guessing and criticism that no corporate executive would tolerate." Since Tumulty's days at the Light, the media View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Five Degrees of Doriot Re: Lasting lessons My fondest memory of the Business School is having lunch with the professor and discussing my thesis on “making the automatic factory a reality” that I did with classmate John Diebold. Doriot encouraged me to join Cordis... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
1932 in New York City, where his father ran a small clothing-manufacturing business in the Garment District. After attending progressive city schools, Navasky graduated from Swarthmore College in 1954 with Phi Beta Kappa honors in the social sciences. Next came Army... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable consumers—children—introducing the first child-resistant caps to medication bottles and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947)—business leader, community collaborator, prominent philanthropist, education visionary—died February 7 at age 92. During a lauded career, Whitehead guided Goldman Sachs to the forefront of investment banking; served his country as deputy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
in the Harvard MBA program, including Management of International Business; Business, Government, and the International Economy; and Industry and Competitive Analysis. He taught in and was course head of Business Policy and the General... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
interesting thing -about the hospitality industry, it tends to attract people who actually have pretty strong values, pretty strong caring about others. And that's actually the number one predictor of who's successful in the hospitality View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services company, says that 19 founders launched the NCF, “but it could easily have been 100.” Among many Black and brown... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers build a group of employees who have great inner work lives: consistently positive emotions,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
In developed countries, tuberculosis has been nearly eradicated, thanks to good nutrition and antibiotics. But those remedies are not available to 90 percent of the world’s population, and 1.7 million people die each year from the disease. Malaria and HIV/AIDS are also... View Details