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- 19 Feb 2021
- News
Was a three-week trip to New Orleans for work or vacation? Both.
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
strengths has been to furnish corporate America with executive leadership at the highest levels. Seeking perspective on this flurry of HBS alumni promotions, the magazine asked Continental Airlines president Gregory Brenneman (MBA 1988)... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
Photo courtesy Ernesta Peloton founder and former CEO John Foley (MBA 2001) is moving from home fitness to home decor. A recent press release announced that Foley and two of his Peloton cofounders are launching Ernesta, a “direct-to-consumer custom rug company” that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise When kitchen goods and home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma announced its acquisition of Outward, Inc.—a leading 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform—the $112 million deal... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
hassle out of moving and furnishing a new residence. The runner-up spot went to Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1972) and his company, Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc., which has developed a new system to extend the viability of human organs and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
gave me his recording with the instruction: "Don't change a word of it." I never learned if he was pleased with what he saw in print. There was little routine during World War II, when the School hosted a number of programs designed to support the war effort. The... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
a regular basis. Every six weeks my backyard changes." John McCarter remembers visiting the Field Museum as a youth, and this is something he wants every child in the Chicago area to be able to experience. He has worked very hard to make school visits more effective —... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
roles with others.” Business borrows these metaphors and lingo from other group-oriented pursuits in order to better understand itself and improve its performance. The world of music provides business with a lot of the analogies and the sports world View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Web-based data service that will allow health providers to have instant access to patients' past EKG records, enhancing their ability to furnish appropriate care. "If you came into the ER with chest pain, the doctor would get an EKG,"... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
attic of [classroom building] Aldrich [Hall] and outfitting them with cardboard furnishings to find dimensions large enough for comfort and function but small enough to discourage [students from staying in their rooms rather than... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
the conference still acquainting themselves with the basics of "the Net," Ilene Lang (MBA '73), vice president of Digital Equipment Corporation's connectivity software business unit, furnished essential facts and background at a March 21... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
organized to do occurred in the life of our-- we have five kids. The third one, Michael, unfortunately decided that he would get his PhD at Stanford. And so, a couple of days after he arrived there, he called us and said, mom and dad, I found the apartment. I need to... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Williams, a home furnishing manufacturer; Karen Kaplan, CEO of ad agency Hill Holliday; and Felix Rappaport, CEO of Foxwoods Resort Casino. The event opened with a cocktail reception in the Spangler Center’s Williams Room, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
zones so that traffic could be run more safely and efficiently. The first rudimentary boxcars and (open-air) wooden passenger benches were also transformed. By the 1870s, prosperous travelers slept and dined in Pullman Palace Cars surrounded by luxurious, plush View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Dodgers will give us the capability and flexibility to build related businesses and programming," Carey says. The sports franchise, he elaborates, will furnish the stimulus and content for derivative ventures such as TV stations, a cable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons