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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
timing.” The program is aimed at second-semester college juniors with significant leadership potential who are beginning to explore career opportunities. Applications are due by July 1, with acceptance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Depelsha McGruder (MBA 1998) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) In July 2016, after visiting relatives in Georgia, I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Will He or Won’t He?
There’s another guessing game going on in Washington, and it doesn’t involve the direction of the Supreme Court. Give up? It’s all about how Christopher Cox (MBA ’76), chosen by President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) to head the SEC, will... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
member of the American Refugee Committee. Ruhr says rarely a week goes by that she doesn’t call to mind an HBS mantra: “Just break it down.” “Anything that seems overwhelming. I tell the staff, ‘It’s just ‘next step and next step, and you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
the highlands of east Africa, it is HIV and TB patients to whom Porter listens intently as they describe their care and treatment. It’s July 2007, and Porter is on a fact-finding trip to Rwanda, part of his work for the Global Health... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Leading People debuted in July 2020, and Leading Learning will launch in July 2021. The program was inspired by findings from an HBS alumni survey indicating that alumni care... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
indie-music enthusiasts whose lifestyles were in sync with the company’s small, young workforce, he notes, “We didn’t have to wonder what our consumers would like; we shared their passions.” When he accepted the job at the then-Oregon-based Traeger in 2014, Andrus was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poorly built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
was completed on July 1. HBS chief of operations David Moffatt describes the site as an easy one to work with. "We are operating in a limited space, but because it's an on-campus site, we don't have the kind of constraints one would find,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories collected View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
we make these investments is, yes, because we think you can have tremendous positive impact, but [also] because we think it's a huge business opportunity. And the potential for returns by doing that are huge. We've been able to prove... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
Denise Murrell (MBA 1980) photo by Annie Tritt Denise Murrell (MBA 1980) photo by Annie Tritt All curators want to help us see art with new eyes—to uncover a missing perspective that adds to our appreciation... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
July 2011, after a year-and-a-half at McKinsey and about six months as the cofounder of Dafiti, which he calls a "Zappos clone"—a kind of Brazilian knockoff of the famous American online shoe seller. Olook sells its own brand as well as... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
Eastern Europe and Latin America.) Notes HBS professor Thomas Piper, who, with HBS professor Steven Wheelwright, is the program’s cochair, “This is an important part of the School’s international outreach.” The program addresses the need for quality MBA programs in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
contributed important ideas to the study of business. But the manifestation of those ideas is in what the alumni and the people touched by our alumni end up doing with that knowledge.” Sahlman (MBA ’75), who assumed his new role View Details