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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
important roles for a parent. Is It Really the Right Stuff? In 1979, writer Tom Wolfe captured the public imagination with his depiction of one of the most competitive professional environments in the world: the screening of American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
was an exception. Selected from 3,000 applicants, I learned that there is always a way if you never give up. A lack of role models did not bother me. I love doing things my way without being bothered by precedent. After HBS, I worked in an View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
market goods to the West. American managers are still reeling from last year’s wild dot-com ride, while managers abroad are busy applying its lessons.” (Nolan will document management lessons from the recent experience of dot-com... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
from the Indian state of Gujarat; he was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his family ran a small chain of grocery stores and butcher shops. What wealth the family had built up, however, was expropriated... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
attentiveness to General Motors's needs during the last 25 years. Raised in a working-class family in Cleveland, he attended the General Motors Institute prior to HBS and has been with GM since leaving Soldiers Field. He rose through the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
States from Taiwan as an eight-year-old speaking no English, the New York Times (February 26, 2001) reported. “I was very lucky to grow up in a family that believed in hard work and education,” said Chao, who favors outreach and access... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
from Mary Thompson's family was one more example of the interconnectedness of all my houses," he writes. Now a senior advisor at DLJ and an active member of a number of boards, including Harvard University's Board of Overseers, Jenrette... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
committed to doing it. Across the School I'm already seeing wonderful momentum. Everything from going to the market to recruit a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, to rethinking how we calculate financial aid for MBA students whose View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
are transferable. Please let me talk to him. So he arranged the interview and I went and I, of course, I didn't get it. I wanted it so terribly and I remember so well at the end of the interview, a couple days later, one of the woman who interviewed me was an African... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
them, you may be missing an opportunity to do something that is extraordinarily impactful. So I refer to that experience in the book and say that that actually impacted the way that I felt about how Black people should respond to their friends and View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
to friends and family to help them raise cash, and if they were really lucky, they would attract the interest of wealthy families such as the Rockefellers and the Whitneys. A mere handful of VCs were doing... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
And that gives us so much hope, because we do think that across the country, Americans who are struggling can recover if they get help from places like Provoking Hope. April: Sheryl, I want to step back and look at how we got here, how... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
after I finished HBS, March of 2011. And it was The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, about a girl whose business supported her family and her neighborhood, under the Taliban. White: Tell me about teaching that case. What do you hope students... View Details