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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
engineers. “To be an effective team leader, you have to be pretty much ego-less,” notes the friendly, optimistic, and articulate Sanchez, who was voted Section C president. “I like being on the playing field with the rest of the group,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
became Dean," notes Professor F. Warren McFarlan, the School's senior associate dean, director of External Relations. "Over the last eighteen months, information technology has transformed the way our students communicate on campus and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
tuck it into the back of your mind the way you would anything unpleasant — otherwise you couldn’t deal with it.” Snyder recalls wanting to be a criminal lawyer from an early age; as a young girl growing up in Baltimore, she took notes on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conversations in class where someone says, 'I've got something sort of like this but I approach it differently,' and those are the inspiration for new cases. Those conversations inform the way we approach the discussion and the examples... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
companies to be formed, and the capital markets have been more than willing to finance the competitive onslaught," Kester observed. "These changes in the economy are being led by our graduates and are also reflected in our students' heightened interest in... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
matter of avoiding particular missteps. Students really appreciate it when you have someone like Christina who is willing to come to class and talk openly about what happened.” In the stories that follow, alumni share their own takeaways... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
Berglund. Once ensconced in classes and studies, however, he says he discovered that his age was actually an advantage. The wisdom of his years gave him a sense of perspective -- which he often shared with his younger classmates to help... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneurs to become franchisees. Keshavjee is also involved in a large affordable housing project in Thika, on the outskirts of Nairobi. He is bullish on Kenya, noting the country has "a youthful, well-educated population and is now... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
program also includes class tours to local businesses and factories. For Mark Celmer, president of Multisorb Tech-nologies International in Buffalo, the Management Development Course gave him the chance to sharpen his management skills... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Left to right: Feeley, Belkin, O'Donnell, Mathias, and Benton It was, in the words of one MBA '71 yearbook scribe, "a trying two years" at HBS. The class that celebrates its 25th Reunion this year came to Soldiers Field in September 1969,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
survey of HBS alumnae from the Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1991 indicates that only 38 percent of the respondents are currently working full-time. However, other findings from the survey suggest that a growing number of these former... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
HBS alumni have a complicated relationship with the notion of retirement. The simple vision of leaving one’s career at the age of 65 and moving to a sunny clime to while away the days playing golf may work well for some. But an unscientific survey of View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
recruiting calendar with those of other MBA programs." Summer Recruiting Rolls Out Students will remain at HBS this summer for the first time, as the 253 members of the Class of 1997 who entered the School in January continue their... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Why were 253 people from all walks of life and parts of the globe pursuing academic work in teams in the Shad Hall fitness center in the middle of January? They were members of the HBS Class of 1997 January cohort. Arriving in the midst... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
Howe says. In developing nations, he notes that it could be game changing, "particularly in places lacking infrastructure, where sunlight is abundant." Ubiquitous Energy began as a class project while Howe... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
into competitive volleyball after a two-year hiatus, Gonzalez began playing on the HBS student team early in the fall of 2000. “Since I had been on a national team, I thought that here, I would be the star,” he notes with a self-effacing... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
case, this particular class was being led by HBS professor Bill Sahlman, and the students were in fact professors, representing a Rand McNally of institutions: St. Petersburg State University, the University of Malta, the University of... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
General Georges Doriot and his legendary class in Manufacturing (a thinly disguised guide to life), went on to produce some of the 20th century’s leading industrialists and manufacturing executives. Somewhere along the way, that began to... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
to report their economic, environmental, and social conduct. Notes Massie, GRI's founding chair, “In addition to governmental mechanisms, we need the GRI framework to keep globalization on a positive track. More than 110 global companies,... View Details