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- 01 Jun 2013
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Notes from W50
attendees reflected on the past and offered an action plan for the future, and the premiere screening of the documentary A Woman's Place, a project led by Professor Cynthia Montgomery that featured alumnae across the five decades View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Students Serve the Community
In September, as part of an “Impact Initiative,” some 130 first-year HBS students visited two Boston public schools to discuss leadership with small groups of seventh graders. “We wanted the middle-school students, or Super Sevens as we call them, to View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Rating Better
Three finance professors have devised a new mutual fund rating system that appears to do a better job of separating fund managers whose performance reflects genuine ability from those whose results depend on luck alone. The authors of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
destructive, and unsustainable,” he said. “Our treatment of livestock reflects the public worldview of self-interest and greed.” Until the modern era, Hodges asserted, farmers and keepers of livestock understood “the importance of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
MBAs by the Numbers
The MBA Program recently released statistics on its newest recruits, the Class of 2003, and job placement information for graduates of the Class of 2001. This year's incoming class of 895 students, selected from an applicant pool of 8,893, View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
HBS Contributors Report
The HBS Contributors Report was mailed to some 13,000 donors in November and reflects all new gifts, pledges, and planned gifts received during fiscal year 2010, ending last June 30. Total commitments exceeded $130 million. Alumni gifts... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership,” said Dean Nitin Nohria. “It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we mourn his passing. At the same time, we can reflect with admiration on a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts
of State as a Fulbright Scholar to Silicon Valley to HBS. Keung immigrated to the United States when she was three years old and grew up in Los Angeles, where she helped her parents in their tiny Chinese restaurant after school. She View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Crafting Success
and what other people could see we had created so far,” he explains. In a frank Q & A, Bilimoria talks about the company’s beginnings, affirms his lifelong commitment to education, offers top tips for entrepreneurs, and reflects on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Learning About Leadership
Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Studies for Your Commute
practice of management? These are a few of the questions that will be answered in the new HBS podcast Cold Call, available this month via iTunes. “We want this podcast to reflect what is unique and distinctive about HBS,” says Brian... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data. In reflecting on her career trajectory, Dubinsky says: “It’s... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed the company’s valuation to $1... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
Having retired from Congress after representing his western New York district for eighteen years, Amory Houghton Jr. (MBA ’52) is now working as a volunteer with his old friend, Bishop Thomas Shaw, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. “The arrangement View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
2001. However, combined revenues for these two business units increased 2.6 percent from fiscal 2002 and represented 54 percent of total revenues. In addition, endowment income rose 6 percent to $53 million, and MBA Program revenues rose 5 percent to $61 million, View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
High Flyer
Partners in Argentina, reflects on his extreme life, explains why “fear is his friend,” and breaks down why cold calls and jumping out of a plane have a lot in common. View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables
representatives of this group who reflect on the challenges they have faced and — often with humor — place their professional accomplishments in the context of other activities that give meaning to their lives. Scott Cook John Doerr... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
HBS Philanthropy Report Online
This year, the School’s annual donor report will be published online. The change from a print publication reflects a cost savings consistent with a School-wide effort to contain expenses, as well as a desire for environmentally... View Details