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- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
his loving family. Christensen was 67 years old. Christensen joined the HBS faculty in 1992. He earned a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975); an M.Phil. in applied econometrics from Oxford University,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and make time for family life, believe in hard work, and support their communities. The family recently established a fund to create the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professorship of Business Administration at HBS. In announcing the chair,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
testing requires resources, and that posed two challenges: Most of the School’s endowment is restricted to established needs in accordance with the donors’ wishes, and donors don’t often want to make large gifts to fund unproven... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
it to Dartmouth College, where his academic advisor encouraged him to attend HBS. Upon graduation, he joined Johnson Wax. “I was exposed to some tremendously successful leaders,” he says of his time in Wisconsin. “It was HBS 2.0: I got to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
to online investment guidance and cryptocurrency. Upon earning her BA, Johnson moved to New York and worked as a research associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. The experience influenced the rest of her life. She met Chris McKown, her future husband, and, impressed by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
fund geared to small inner-city entrepreneurs. “Carla invests in other people and helps others see their dreams come to light,” says Damon Caldwell, an HBS classmate who was in her study group. “She really... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
the School will need many years from now. He notes that since his gift won’t benefit the School until after his passing, and because he is confident the future stewards of HBS will use his support where it will have the biggest impact, he... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
by Dean Nitin Nohria’s leadership and the fact that health care is becoming an important part of the vision for the future of HBS,” says Mary Ellen, who with Jeffrey served as gift cochairs for their reunion. The research fellowship fund... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
engineering, and eventually, management. Dahod describes HBS’s case method as “a shock to my system,” and remembers a dark day in Aldrich Hall during his first year when he was called to open all three case discussions. Earning his MBA, he says, changed his life: “I... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
beers. Shufelt, a former hedge fund trader, had decided that all the boozy weeknight work dinners were incompatible with his life and fitness goals. He quit drinking and found sobriety to be a brilliant “life hack,” but he also missed the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
Women & Enterprise. Cronin also funds four HBS fellowships. “Helping deserving people help themselves is as exciting as working on a deal,” he says. And for Cronin, that's fundamental. — Garry Emmons (send... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital, it's an industry that really owes its development and success to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
want. As an aside, I ended up marrying my aforementioned girlfriend, so while I don’t endorse slacking off on any job, in this particular case the reprimand was worth it. —Brian Ginsler (MBA 2003) "My First Job" - HBS alumni reflections... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have embarked on second careers. Just a few months removed from Wall Street, where he commanded a workforce of six thousand seasoned financial services pros, Richard S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
treasurer. And I am doing that because — as I will argue on this page — we HBS alums are by now almost all Democrats. (Moderate Dems to be sure, but Democrats.) Some of us (very possibly you, dear reader) just don’t know it. Your... View Details