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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
2003 Global Leadership Forum was scheduled to take place in Shanghai last June. Unfortunately, the SARS outbreak caused us to postpone the conference to June 2004. Thanks to the strong leadership of Bob Shaw (MBA ’84), his Global Leadership Forum Committee, and our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
including “Ice Princess” and “Judge 232,” a number referring to her sentence for one defendant (the actual term was 213 years). Her hard-line stance has led to numerous death threats and the necessity for 24-hour police protection. “I... View Details
- Profile
Arvind Chandrababu
What led you to the HBS MBA program? When I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas, Austin, studying electrical engineering, I realized that as much as I enjoyed coding, I didn’t want to spend eight hours out of every day in... View Details
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Jolie Chow
financial hub, inspired another perspective as well. "I wondered what business might mean to governance, to sovereignty, to ordinary lives." That curiosity led to an undergraduate education in the United States. "In Hong... View Details
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David Gellis
David Gellis comes from a family of physicians. But during his college career, his interests swung toward journalism and even led to a stint as editor of the Harvard Crimson. Yet the medical call came to him as well. "Journalism gave... View Details
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Aurora Turek
As an undergraduate in psychology at the University of Michigan, Aurora Turek (she/her) became interested in the ways that psychology can be applied to the workplace. This interest led her to a research assistantship at the Ross... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
New York’s Central Park almost every day. “I realized I couldn’t tell the difference between a red oak and a black oak,” the nature lover says. His curiosity led to Central Park Trees and Landscapes, with horticulturalist Neil Calvanese,... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
MCKENNEY: The first information systems expert at HBS, he led its early IT efforts. HBS professor emeritus James L. McKenney,an expert in management information systems and the use of computer systems for teaching management, passed away... View Details
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Tiera Brown
attention. I don't like to do anything half-way — I wanted to give this my all." An event on Prospective Students Day reinforced Tiera's conviction. "I was amazed by the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference," she says, "that it was run and View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
addition to teaching in the MBA and Executive Education Programs, he chaired the School's Doctoral Programs for almost six years. Postings on four continents with multinational corporations had given Stobaugh a practical foundation for his scholarly interest in global... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very high likelihood of landing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
to warn other members of the family,” said Diamond, whose search led him to Poland—and then to the creation of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland. Since founding JRI-Poland, in 1996, the not-for-profit has indexed more than 5 million birth,... View Details
- Career Coach
Adam Shimer
cycles. He has led prospective candidates through hundreds of case interviews, and also acted as a first round interviewer for more than 30 Bain applicants. Adam left consulting to work at the Chicago Mayor’s Office as an economic policy... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
the opportunity to withhold information from their husbands about access to contraception. The results? Providing cheap and convenient forms of birth control led to a reduction in unwanted births only when women were given full autonomy... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
views.] “But then this led us into other things. We wanted to say, well, many people do not know what classical music is. So why don't we go into what is classical music? Who are the main composers throughout history? Who are the... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus
Local Motors—which is led by Jay Rogers (MBA 2007)—posted to its co-creation community: build an urban public transportation system. It’s all part of the company’s unique design model: "Most of our vehicles are designed by people who... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
says Teixeira. "But those people who are interested are ready to go now." While emotion-focused ads still led to a net increase in sales, product-focused ads led to a net increase or decrease... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
he said. “And I believe my mother is exceptional, but that approach cannot work for everyone.” Drawn to a career focused on economic uplift and shared prosperity, Mbanusi looked for ways to address poverty at scale which led him to focus... View Details
- Portrait Project
Meredith Cantrell
Sometimes I forget to breathe. My parents used to laugh when, as a defiant youngster, my crying fits often led me to near hyperventilation. "Keep breathing, honey..." they'd remind me. But the first time I heard Mahler's 5th, it... View Details