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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
passion. “Work is one arena where passions can be pursued but far from the only one. There’s a lot of research showing that people who pursue their passion outside work actually end up being more satisfied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
Professor Geoffrey Jones, a passionate advocate of the power of history to inform the next generation of business leaders, has answered this challenge with the Creating Emerging Markets project. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Making a Difference
Passion for aiding entrepreneurs and supporting women’s issues brought four members of the MBA Class of 2012 recognition as winners of the Dean’s Award. Established in 1997, the award celebrates students’ positive impact on the School and... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
résumé,” for example, are mantras that he is fond of sharing. By turning his life’s passion into his work and applying a rigorous discipline to his calendar, Tierney has built a life of purpose. The proud father of two grown sons who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
situations; similarly, there’s untapped potential in being able to establish electronic connections with consumers in ways that are not necessarily based on having a huge database of past consumption. Clearly, you have a passion about... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
and the larger world. A culmination of four years of extensive research, this book (excerpted below) chronicles some of the myriad ways alumni are living the mission through social impact. “It is impressive and inspiring to see the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz says, “I was still young and single, and I had a business problem I was passionate about. For the first couple of years I worked out of my own checkbook and slept on a lot of friends’ couches.” Kiva Systems is named after a Hopi... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, and the new HBS Alumni Association president, when he was on campus for a board meeting. He spoke with passion and eloquence of the School’s growing impact around the globe (see story). In... View Details
- 21 May 2016
- News
Homegrown Heroes
a recent article. Five years later, with events in 11 countries, including Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, Sityodtong oversees a sports media company with 90 percent regional market share and triple-digit percentage annual growth. In a March 2015 HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
rugby in the MBA World Championship, she’s taken home numerous sailing awards for Ireland and is the only woman to win Ireland’s Helmsman’s Championship in the event’s sixty-year history. “My passion for sailing and the desire to win have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Minnesota Orchestral Association as vice president of marketing. Her passion for the music matched her enthusiasm for the job, and she enjoyed applying all the lessons she’d learned in business school to the arts world. “Hardly a month... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
about choosing a cause if there are many things you’re passionate about? There’s a lot written about choosing specific projects or charities within a cause, but what if you’re interested in doing good, and there are many causes that speak... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
making lasting impact in their respective sectors." Her involvement with the ICA sprang from her passion for collecting contemporary artists such as Glenn Ligon and Christopher Wool. "I've always had this deep interest in all things... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
on their part made it financially possible for their bright and affable son to enter Cornell's premed program. But during his junior year, at the age of nineteen, Tatum decided to change his major to business management. "I just didn't have the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
the internal whispers telling her that her real love centered on children and families, however, she moved to Chicago and began a promising career as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett, Inc. "It was a great experience," Small says, "but I wasn't View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
him. As a French major at Dartmouth, Hubert pursued a lifelong passion for travel and spent a semester living abroad in Lyon. "Being blessed with the opportunity to live in France and immerse myself in a different culture," she says, "was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
embarked on a "steep learning curve" at Andersen Consulting in San Francisco, where he joined the company's Media and Entertainment division. Technology became his newfound passion at Andersen, leading him to HBS to pursue his MBA and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when she was a child, and her... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
the future.” In a less-than-stellar economic climate, he continued, exceptional entrepreneurs will emerge, because “it will take greater amounts of patience, perseverance, and passion for each of these ventures to be a success.” — Lee-Ann... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
unripe peach. Covered in a bright, red, stringy substance that turns out to be mace, the nutmeg seed is dried and ground to form the familiar spice. At the conclusion of the tour, we sat on benches and tasted a variety of just-picked fruit: jackfruit, litchi, banana,... View Details