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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
Enriquez projects another image, filled with the letters ATCG in various combinations. The letters stand for adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine — the chemicals that make up DNA. Just as the floppy disk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I am writing this letter on the heels of another wonderful reunion weekend at HBS. If you're like me, a "reunion zealot," you know how special these events are. Not only do reunions give us the chance to reconnect with dear friends, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This is my first letter to you in my capacity as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I am honored to carry on the work of my predecessor, Ed Hajim (MBA '64), who over the years has done so much for the School and its alumni. Ed has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
served as head of R&D in the Office of the Quartermaster General during World War II, rising to brigadier general. BETTMANN/CORBIS In 1921, Doriot left war-ravaged France for America, where he intended to enroll at MIT. Using a letter of... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
interest in food marketing, and spoke often of his conversations with Salmon. At that time, grocers were offering generic labels on their lower cost items: yellow bags with brown block letters identifying the contents only as coffee,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
tomorrow or the next day, but it does make one a bit more wary than in other parts of the world. When you started Blackstone 22 years ago, what were your goals? Have you fulfilled them? When we started the business, we actually wrote a View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
survivors of the earthquake,” notes their fundraising website. FEBRUARY 14 Esel Çekin, executive director of the HBS MENA Research Center, wrote a letter to alumni and friends of the center that highlighted some of the efforts underway by... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters. That building's giant red call... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
a company that still thrives today based on principles instilled more than 20 years ago. Taiwan Aborigine Missionary: R. Don McCall Sr., Family Letters compiled by Roy K. McCall (MBA 1984) China’s Greatest Statesman: Zhou Enlai’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
homeland from foreign invasion. Abigail: A Visit with Abigail Adams by Rand W. Tuttle (MBA 1961) (Rand Wood Tuttle) A historical account of the life of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, the second US president. It is written as an autobiography in her own words, based... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
getting caught. I help guys advance, even if it’s dishonorable. Do you get hate mail from women? I do receive nasty letters when I’m helping a man achieve a reprehensible goal. But I didn’t create that goal. Like any good capitalist, I... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
move forward. The Dad Advice Project: Words of Wisdom from Guys Who Love Being Dads By Craig Kessler (MBA 2014) Savio Republic In early 2019, while in search of parenting advice, father of three young boys and author Craig Kessler asked a handful of friends to write... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
investors to create a supportive environment in which African entrepreneurs can thrive. Why Muslims Lagged Behind and Others Progressed New translation by Nadeem M. Qureshi (MBA 1982) Austin Macauley In the fall of 1928, the imam of Java, Mohammad Basyuni Imran, had a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
out with Nextel? One person knew a career not to be taken: Jim Stern decided against retail. His rejection letter from J.C. Penney won a Harbus contest and was published in the paper. The future banking mogul did, however, win the stock... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
ways. Some people might be more willing to give at a grocery store when they ask you to donate at the checkout counter. Other people might not give there but instead respond to a letter or email request. I think, rather than asking what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
the love of his life, and eventually three children. He shares his experiences doing business in the Common Market, communist countries, the Middle East and Africa from 1961 to 1980. This book is based on lengthy Christmas letters widely... View Details