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Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)
Katz took some of her family savings to place a small ad in Seventeen magazine for small handbags and belts in 1951. Within a few weeks, she had received $16,000 worth of orders, and sales have skyrocketed ever since. She began expanding... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Portrait Project
Scott Spencer
to many places — from my struggles on the lowest levels of the pro tennis tour, to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. It is a reassuring constant to help me confront the ever-shifting challenges of life. My dream is to be a living,... View Details
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Sylvia Ko
physical constraints. My family could not afford travel, but I explored places you probably never heard of. I was on bed rest, but I led armies to conquer empires. My peers on the playground teased me for having “squinty eyes and yellow... View Details
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Mike Anders
college. While I enjoyed playing baseball, basketball, and football for our school teams, I sometimes felt out of place talking to the guys after practice. I didn’t feel like I could really be myself. But I also didn’t see myself in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Katy Lankester
I spent most of my childhood in a place that cared a lot about appearances. The 'pretty' girls were thin and went to extraordinary lengths to stay that way. I didn't want to go on 'celery diets' – I wanted to be an athlete; I wanted to be... View Details
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Hayling Price
It didn't take me long to realize I had won the birth lottery. Of course it would be satisfying to think that I landed at Harvard purely as a result of my own hard work. But the truth is, the financial and social capital I happened to inherit View Details
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Elsa Sze
campaign flyers we've been handing out. "I'm sure you'll be President one day! I'll vote for you, Antonio!" I've lied. I know the stats. A boy from this place is half as likely to finish school and twice as likely to be jobless,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Scott M. Sperling, MBA 1981 & Laurene M. Sperling, MBA 1982
For all alumni, HBS is someplace special, but for Scott and Laurene Sperling, the School has added meaning as the place where they first met. Today, their appreciation of what HBS has meant for both heart and head is reflected in their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
Yorkers in the future.” Added Rhea, who grew up in Detroit and attended its public schools, “I know what it’s like to be from a place where both parents are working hard to help give their children a better life and access to quality... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
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Commencement 2015 Address | About
When I think about Perseverance, I recall the evening I spent at a student vigil last fall. It took place during the period of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of an African American teenager by a police officer. When I... View Details
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Dan Vallone
encourages you to expand your box of ideas. On a personal note, what’s your biggest takeaway from your MBA experience? I’m now much more focused on placing people as my objective. Rather than concentrating on what I want to do or where I... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
program, I had the opportunity to write a new case about Robert Mondavi. As I conducted the research for the case, I became more fascinated with the changes taking place in the industry globally, as well as the marked differences between... View Details
Robert R. McCormick
When McCormick inherited The Chicago Tribune from his uncle, it had less than 200,000 subscribers, was the third largest newspaper in Chicago, and was barely surviving. McCormick helped place the paper on solid financial ground even... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
credibility you place in the bank's valuation of its assets). Why then has there not been a run on the bank? Being too big to fail is hardly a solid basis on which to build brand equity. The true answer to the question is that retail... View Details
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Bismah Rahmat
His heart, so generous, so brave, took care of everything. Just as it had taken care of me for the past 27 years. Three months earlier, he had walked me down the aisle, holding my hand with a steadiness that dispelled my wedding-day nerves. Now again he View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
Salesianum. “I wanted to help the school navigate to a place of firmer footing,” says Kennealey, who has focused on reversing declining enrollments and budget deficits while reinforcing Salesianum’s historic tradition of serving... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on agricultural restoration after... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
HBS’s capital campaign from 2002 to 2005, raising nearly $600 million; established a professorship at HBS; and, with his family, provided the funds that created the Spangler Center. “This place means something to us. It was significant in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Unexpected Moments at HBS
a coffee with a young woman from Slovenia, who took hours out of her afternoon to educate me on the current dynamics of Eastern Europe. This is a place where a young man who completed his term as a Navy Seal was able to stand alongside... View Details