Receptiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2016
News

Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Alghanim (MBA 2002); Janet H. Cahill (AMP 189, 2015), Executive Director, HBS External Relations; Global Leaders Circle member Mohammed Al Faisal (MBA 1996), and Ali Osman (MBA 2015). On March 30, more than 100 alumni and guests from Turkey and the region attended a... View Details

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

weren’t exactly receptive to the guy from corporate. During job interviews, the organizations told Dyson he was going through a midlife crisis. Also, his corporate background was a negative in the nonprofit world, and he hadn’t paid his... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

19 Jun 2018
News

Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

strategies of running an alumni club. The conference kicked off with a reception and dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston, allowing alumni to socialize and network with each other as well as with directors from the HBS Initiatives and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

School. There was a range of feelings about the fact that out of a class of 700 students there were only 6 African Americans. LAMBERT: We had absolutely no idea of whether Dean Baker would be receptive to even discussing a change with us,... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

employers. While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system - often because... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

there is a bustle of activity as the premises are readied to receive the three hundred guests who will arrive for an evening reception and book-signing party to celebrate the publication of a handsome new volume, Adventures with Old... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 1997
News

MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

revealed striking contrasts between students' perceptions of HBS before and after entering the MBA Program," he explains. "On the whole, they found HBS much less competitive than they'd expected and far more friendly, responsive, and View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

I've ever done." A series of afternoon panels were organized around "hot topics," such as cultivating a mentor and building a career, strategies for personal and professional success, women as negotiators, and the power of women in the marketplace. The event ended with... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

says the conversation continued at an informal reception with cocktails and light refreshments. Feedback from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive. “Everyone commented on the outstanding hosts, panelists, and audience, combined with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2010
News

Michael Depatie

General Services Administration. The ballroom was once the Postmaster General’s library, and a cupola lets in natural light. During the Civil War it was used as a hospital operating room where amputations were performed. Now we have wedding View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

delivered to a reception with a missing middle tier (it was mistakenly sent to another wedding). Castaldo tells the story of a Pollo Tropical restaurant manager facing down a lunchtime crush with a diminishing supply of bread rolls - the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Dec 1997
News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

other every day for the last thirty years. Anyway, when I called him in New York, he just was beside himself. When he later learned there would be a reception for me at HBS that day, he wanted to get to Boston as quickly as possible. He... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

competitors—be receptive as the NFL seeks to make inroads among well-established sports audiences on their home turf? And what about all the other non-football diversions and entertainment options vying for fans' attention? The National... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

door to his studio, Yoga by Donation, is never locked. Students slide dollar bills or, occasionally, tens and twenties into a black safe on an unattended reception desk before slipping off their shoes and finding a spot on the floor of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea." Koehn's opening presentation... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Aug 1998
News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

Class of 1978 about his journey "From B-School to Broadway," frankly discussing the bumps along the way. He also addressed a well-attended reception for gay and lesbian alumni, an official reunion event that he worked with HBS to... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

assesses the influence, ideas, and methods of István Hont, a leader of the Cambridge school of political thought, who argued that to better understand the development of liberalism, one must look not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

centuries, not decades. The ten years that it took to conceive, plan, and build the East Building were well-spent, judging by the superb reception the I.M. Pei-designed structure has received, including its recent designation by... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

presence," reports Martha B. Achenbaum, associate director of MBA Admissions. "For example, the HBS Club of Paris has been hosting an information reception for many years, and these sessions are very well-attended," she says. Achenbaum... View Details