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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Under Sicilian tradition enforced by her iron-willed father, she was expected to live at home until the right young man came along and proposed marriage. Desperate for independence, at age 26 she broke free View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Industries, a real estate investment firm he started in 1968. C.D. Spangler Construction company was founded by Spangler's father, C.D. Spangler, Sr. – a self-made man who had not been able to afford college and who, at the age View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
members of the Class of 1989 who spent part of their summers training to be officers - and eventually aviators - in the U.S. Marine Corps. Their choices, however, were quite in... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
AL GORDON, 2006: With Wall Street integrity and Harvard loyalty as constants, a lifetime of taking the long view. Albert H. Gordon (MBA ’25), the man known as “Mr. Harvard,” whose name graces the road that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says Ratajczak, a white View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
It's the first day of class at HBS, and students introduce themselves one by one, proudly enumerating their accomplishments. Finally a young man with a long black braid rises from his seat. "I don't have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
employment, to create wealth for themselves, and for their communities, and their families. When a woman makes $1, about 90% of their income is spent on health, education and nutrition. And that same statistic for a View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
industry in a varied portfolio of investments (Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding are a special interest) for a man who has made a reputation based on “his philanthropy, a keen intellect, and a tough... View Details
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
Thailand, India, Poland, and Argentina, even if there is a one- or two-year setback, there will be growth," he declares. For a man who rightly saw the potential in a town that looked like a Cold War relic, such faith in the power View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Edited by Linda Kush Fifty years ago, two Scotsmen started an HBS rugby team to help relieve the stress of studies. A look back at one of the School's most storied traditions. Photo courtesy View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
touting seven sandwiches under six grams of fat. Why is the story of one very fat man who lost weight stickier than other weight-loss stories? We respond instinctively to this... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
advance our best people.” The result is the Professor Henry B. Reiling Fellowship Fund. A fund that would help address that need while bearing the name of the man “who was my favorite among many great HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Platform) Set in the late sixties, this romantic novel is about love, longing, and coming of age. It follows the lives of three main protagonists—a young man traveling in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
high-performing facilities would attract more patients, boosting revenues. Costs would stabilize because hospitals would compete among themselves on the basis of prices, services, and results for the consumer. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant on Friday evening. Ferguson discussed the changing nature and role of leadership today, and illustrated his talk with an insider's view of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan... View Details