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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen subsequently left the company, which at the time was one of the ten highest-ranked German firms in the field of industry, trade, transport, and roster excellence. Among the many tributes to Andresen on his departure from SABO was a View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
article. "The paper was looking to do a story on a business that had really struggled," explains Shafir, now seated in a spacious meeting room at Kettle Cuisine's soon-to-be-finished new plant. "They came to the right place!" Shafir liked the article, which prompted... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
academic scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he competed for and won a spot on the football team, and earned a varsity letter and several championship rings. Despite playing behind a Heisman Trophy winner and four NFL draft... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
that she would miss. She assembled two gift boxes, one for each of her two children. Inside Mailliard packed gifts and wrote letters for every birthday up to the age of 30, every graduation, driver’s license, college admission,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2019
- News
Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site
wrote Prince. “Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit." In an interview in the New York Times,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
from around the world; to support case writing, research, and curriculum development in entrepreneurship; and to enhance the overall classroom experience for faculty and students. "Over the years," the cochairs wrote in a joint letter to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
existing structure.” Women from the Classes of 1970 and 1971 wrote letters and met with decision-makers. 2 “Figure out who those committed and powerful people are who can help you make a change.” For those seeking to open the doors to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
Scott Mason, an expert in capital markets, valuation, and financial systems and an HBS faculty member for seventeen years, died of cancer in September. He was 50 years old. "Scott was a good friend, valued colleague, and mentor to many of us here at the School," Dean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha
awesome: Pasricha met and married his new wife, and they now have two children. That led him to his next topic: happiness. “It was a 300-page letter to my unborn child,” Pasricha says of his new book, The Happiness Equation, another... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
letters to Bay Area companies, he landed a summer job at Dodge & Cox, an investment management company headquartered in San Francisco. “The top three people there were HBS alums,” he remembers. “That summer job turned into a career.” Over... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
private-sector customer service? After all, it wasn’t so long ago that letters or phone calls to virtually any state agency might simply go unanswered. (And truth be told, the private sector often wasn’t much better.) After my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to the new standards often employed a heavily unionized public-sector workforce whose members would seem to benefit most from fully funded pensions. To come to this conclusion, Allen and her coauthor studied 227 letters received by the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
quarterly letter to investors that has become a must-read not only for the financial community but also for anyone concerned about climate change, resource depletion, and the environment. Grantham, whose firm manages more than $100... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler Jr., MBA 1956
When Dick Spangler was tapped to lead HBS's first capital campaign with a mission to raise $500 million, he regarded the request as "the ultimate cold call." But it was one he was pleased to answer. In his initial campaign letter to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
year. On April 9, a letter to the HBS community from Dean Kim B. Clark and a statement from the Faculty and Staff Standards Committee (FSSC) reported the results of an investigation that had found a pattern of behavior within one class... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
to a calling — what can I do to help?” Miller said. “I always wanted to go into public service,” which he did, after writing a letter to Treasury Secretary and fellow Goldman alum Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). One Treasury project Miller has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
church, I wrote condolence notes to folks who had lost a loved one. I have to tell you, when you’re most in need, a handwritten letter is a powerful thing. Sometimes email doesn’t suffice. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
Appealing Messages David Lindholm (MBA 1959, AMP 100, 1987) If there’s a way to capture the attention and interest of his Class of 1959 Section C classmates, David Lindholm will find it—and he has, through a series of cleverly written and informative View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Southern leaders. On August 19, he drafted a potentially momentous letter to a Democratic politician and newspaper editor, ending the communication with this proposition: “If Jefferson Davis wishes...to know what I would do if he were to... View Details