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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
back home now, and finding reintegration fairly easy, in part because the lessons I learned as a military officer have transferred well to civilian leadership. People are much the same, it seems, in or out of uniform. And good leadership... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
came when it was selected to build custom-designed consoles and workstations for the Military Air Lift Command’s Crises Action Area at Scott AFB. That led to building all the consoles and workstations for the Strategic Air Command’s... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
Photos courtesy of Regan Turner Regan Turner (MBA/MPP 2013) is executive director of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
chopping block. "We shouldn't pay volunteers" was one eternal argument. AmeriCorps members are volunteers only in the same sense that the military is "all-volunteer"—people are not drafted or conscripted; they sign on voluntarily. Once... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
quickly that almost no one knew what they were doing—everyone was playing a guessing game because the situation was so unprecedented. But people who had been through crises in the past advised me to go into military mode immediately.” For... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
War II for families of men in military service while they attended military training programs operated by Harvard during the war, but I think it was used mostly after the war for the large influx of married... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
“A lot of times, people have preconceived notions about how military leaders lead. They think it’s yelling, screaming, and staunch discipline. But one of the most critical leadership lessons I learned as a junior lieutenant was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
uneducated, and ill-equipped population; and exhausted resources. The military leaders considered the daunting prospects of simmering border and ethnic instability, continued castigation, an imprisoned and widely revered charismatic... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Sprinkles lives now stands in stark contrast to his early years growing up as a military brat. The son of an Army sergeant, he attended Vanderbilt University on a Naval ROTC scholarship. He graduated as a naval officer, then served on two... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
conventional energy development and are steering clear of these heavily subsidized green alternatives. Robert G. James (MBA 6/1948) New York, NY That’s Me! In the March issue’s Last Look photo of a group of women in military fatigues, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
ready to move beyond their self-interest to the interests of others, such as patients, clients, students, parishioners, the nation (in the case of military professionals), etc. Professionals adopt publicly announced ethical standards for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
business from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble in 1992. Following military service, he took a consulting position with Bossard Consultants, a Zurich, Switzerland-based firm that had him working with technology clients... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Michael Gilbert (MBA ’67) (Hunter Press) Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon (OPM 30, 01) and Nigel Nicholson (Kogan Page) The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
MBA in 1938, Mace remained at the School as a research associate before being posted to England for military service in 1942. There he worked with Robert S. McNamara (MBA '39), a friend and fellow HBS faculty member, to help set up... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
getting an MBA because he says he wants "a seat at the table." "Since our launch in 2008, we've had 110 students take the class," Schultz notes. "Except for one who's in an elite military unit, all have gone on to college, including 30 or... View Details