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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
desk drawer the crucial report — which explained the risk of depending on one single person, even one as remarkably effective as Sidney Weinberg — until after his formal admission to the partnership. Whitehead says knowingly, “Rocking the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
anti-Communist.” When his parents' marriage ended, his university-educated mother was forced to become a seamstress, and Djelic experienced economic deprivation firsthand. But his obvious talents won him admission to elite schools. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
remember writing essays for admission to HBS and talking a lot about leadership and impact,” she recalls. “I can’t think of a better way to be a leader and have impact than what I am doing now.” Scharpf created SHE in the fall of 2007 to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU), as a panel chair at the 1999 HBS Entrepreneurship Conference, and as a member of the Finance and Management Consulting clubs. She has also worked with the Admissions Office and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
after my father-in-law pointedly mentioned the difference in earning power between teaching and business. Although I wasn’t especially interested in a business career, when I secured admission to HBS, I could not pass up the opportunity.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
that helped her land admission to a master’s program in international affairs at UC San Diego, where he had earned his graduate degree. She starts this fall. “I feel like I’m in a cloud, in a dream,” Hernandez says. While these... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
which offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Today, Year Up serves more than 1,300 students in nine cities across the nation. The book follows a Year Up class from admissions through graduation.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
the state’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. He also started a Harvard-Hawaii initiative that involved creating paid internships with nonprofits in Hawaii for HBS and Kennedy School students, as well as sharing resources and conducting View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
persuaded other kids to follow their lead, and who can show that they’ve got the drive and stick-to-itiveness to set a goal and chase it down. I would also mention that a key part of our selection process is that we’re set up as a need-blind View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
an area where neither Paal nor I have any background experience.” Ten employees now staff the IT department, a “hefty investment” by Gisholt’s admission but a necessary one in a business that relies so heavily on accuracy in its... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
is a leading source of diverse talent for Google; Goldman Sachs; Procter & Gamble; Deloitte; and many other top firms 95 percent of its MBA Prep Fellows have been accepted by top-25 business schools admission rates for MLT Fellows at the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
requests for data and assistance in contacting students and alumni. As an alternative to the media rankings, the two schools spearheaded an effort with the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) to develop a database of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
thought he was too old. “I’ll be 35 when I graduate,” he told Alita. To which she famously replied, “You’re going to be 35 anyway.” Discussion over. With only one week left before the last admissions deadline, Parker hustled to complete... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
people lined up outside hospitals that nevertheless had an abundance of empty beds, they studied the phenomenon until they understood it. Sometimes the solution was to shift work away from swamped doctors and on to other staff. Other times, they could streamline... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
their own academic goals. “I wrote my admission essay about my time at the Treasury, and the need for people who speak the languages of public service and finance,” she says. “I wanted to have credibility and background in both government... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the company I had started. At this point, with a wife and six-day-old daughter, I decided to apply for admission to HBS. Attending the MBA program, living in Cambridge, and meeting young, enterprising Americans, resulted in my immigrating... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
briefly returned to Goldman Sachs after graduation before choosing a new career path as a firefighter in San Diego. He also runs an online mentoring program for high school students, PrepWell Academy, which focuses on developing real-world skills and guidance during... View Details