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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital’s advertising consists of word of mouth, and Shouldice’s popularity is such that former patients (“alumni”) return by the hundreds for reunions. The hospital has a backlog of View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(MBA '64), the Nominating Committee worked hard to winnow down a list of close to 180 able and enthusiastic prospective candidates. The board continues to be a strong and vital resource for the School and its alumni. The Community... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
begin with, some CEOs find the prospect of succession downright depressing. For them it means failure or organizational death. They love the job; it is their identity. They think of building a cohort of potential leaders, not as the path... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
prospects and declining oil price outlook influence the timing and pace of the Fed interest rate normalization? —Tongurai Limpiti (AMP 181, 2011) One of the best things about serving on the board of directors at a regional Reserve Bank is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
had to be a different answer. My first book on this topic, The Innovator’s Dilemma, explored my theory that developing advanced technologies is rarely the primary challenge for leading firms. Rather, the stumbling block lies in introducing new technologies into... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Prospective Students' Day on the HBS campus Friday afternoon. The oversubscribed event included a case study led by HBS professor Thomas J. DeLong and a talk by Lillian Lincoln (MBA '69), the first African-American woman to graduate from... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
they prayed." HBS's answer to Leno and Letterman, Larry Klein (MBA '80), who fully intends to keep his day job as an investment advisor, has recently packaged that and some two hundred other jokes to help financial professionals add a humorous spark to their... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
less so. Taylor contributed to a not-for-profit to help pay airfare to bring orphans to the United States for month-long summer vacations with prospective adopting families. The program ran so well, he doubled his loan the following year.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
Sonia Sahney: Personal time. We have the opportunity to do so many things. Life is good here. Amyn Pesnani: I definitely won’t miss not being paid. Laughter Andrew Saunders: I remember when I visited as a prospective student, I sat in on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine.” When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest. Today, MBA students again are flocking to real estate courses (see sidebar, page 22), lured by the View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
observed, information technology will be central to an HBS education. "Our new campuswide system is beginning to have a real impact. This is not a business-as-usual approach. We are embracing the prospect of change an innovation." "Our... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
MBA 2018 The HBS Club of Singapore hosted a send-off party/wine tasting event on July 4 to help celebrate 14 new HBS students from the region. The event came together after alumna Margaret Wells (MBA 2006) met new admit Ana Gonzalez Escudero (MBA 2020) at an event for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
emissions grows ever more urgent. The prospect of a clean energy source that could serve double duty as a carbon-capture technology has proven irresistible to investors, who have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into dozens of algae... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
opportunity to grow and engage its user base by tapping into data and analytics and could add value to Nix in the eyes of prospective acquirers. Should Nix stay the analog course, make the transition to digital, or split limited resources... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the North continued to suffer crushing numbers of casualties. Pressure grew on the Union side to end the conflict, even if it meant foregoing universal emancipation. Facing the prospect of an upcoming presidential election against a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
other centers. Their original focus was to facilitate research throughout South Asia, working with HBS faculty to lay the groundwork for cases and new course development. Now, staff members also help the MBA Admissions team meet with View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
for a lot of us, especially Harvard graduates, work is probably all-encompassing and the prospect of stopping work and pivoting into something different is a little bit frightening. And so I think it's really important to start in your... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
Clubs News Clubs News Latino Alumni Reunite for 18th Annual Banquet The HBS Latino Alumni Association held its 18th Annual Banquet on April 29, drawing more than 100 HBS alumni and guests—including current and prospective HBS students—to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
were academic. What excited most of us, I think, was the prospect of doing something real. Twenty-five years later, better than half the respondents to our class survey answered "Yes" when asked, "Do you consider yourself an... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)