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- Portrait Project
Phillip Jones
On June 26, 2015, I remember three things: My mother held tightly to my arm, my uniform stuck to my skin, and my cousin, a leader, dedicated father, and South Carolina state senator, was dead. That June day, I sat in the fourth row of the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ceena Beall
On a hot July 4th, I sat in the garage with my "paw paw" waiting for the barbeque ribs to finish cooking. Amidst the small talk, I dared to ask: "What was it like living in the south before civil rights?" My paw paw... View Details
- Profile
Stephen Mathew
My most memorable classroom moment was when a guest speaker who was the CEO of a large telecommunications company shook my hand and told me he sat in my exact seat when he went to HBS. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
sat there listening to the discussion, and it helped me,” Fung relates. “We benefit a lot from sharing our ideas. It reminded me of the good old days when I was a student.” But this time, it was Fung who had something to teach about how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
We’re bringing religion and some very personal terms into it. A whole series of fissures that have sat quiet in this country for a long time can be revived if there isn’t space for moderation. What can be done to bring the country... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ashiana Jivraj
The patient’s eyes darted around the makeshift dental practice in India, pleading for a discount to remove her last decayed tooth. She was only 35. I wanted to hand her the US$7 from my pocket but instead I sat there silently listening to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Josh Latson
realized that I had not done much – my time had been spent building myself up and contributing little to the world around me. I thought again of those words to be etched in stone and my childhood worries soon returned. "Here lies a man who View Details
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Linda Leung
standard work experience.” “Here, I’m exposed to smart, accomplished people from all types of backgrounds,” Linda says. “In my first semester, I sat next to the best downhill skier in Cyprus. In a case we discussed about business... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
doing my job and what the rules and regulations and my job description dictated. And that was the point when I sat down and I thought, there must be thousands of other women in the world who are facing very similar challenges in their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
community together in a common purpose. "I'm a big consensus builder," he says, "and I love helping to motivate people." In addition, Hughes served on the HBS Student Association and was production manager for the HBS Show, the School's annual student-produced,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Portrait Project
Abhi Sharma
I plan to change the odds. So there I was, procrastinating while trying to finish Friday's cases, when out of idle curiosity I decided to find out who else from back home had walked these halls, sat in these chairs, made these friends.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Tune In for a Management Tune-Up
"If you've ever sat staring at a blank computer screen while the clock ticks away on your report deadline, you know what writer's block can feel like." So begins a typical daily segment of "Ideas @ Work," an innovative audio feature that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Student Interest in Social Enterprise Is on the Rise As I sat in Burden Auditorium on a dreary Sunday back in March, surrounded by upwards of 1,100 students, I wondered whether I was witness to the arrival of a new zeitgeist. The occasion... 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... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
Teachers” (with Professor Tom DeLong, and the session that I sat in on, “Finding Great Cases.” The case in question was Sahlman’s “Dr. John’s Products, Ltd.”, the story of serial entrepreneur John Osher and his quest to invent,... View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
would sleep for two hours, so I would aim to work for an hour to an hour and a half each day. If it didn’t happen, I’d make up for it at night. There was a period of about two weeks when he was waking up every half hour. I sat by his... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
When Last Seen
classroom; certainly his relaxed demeanor "as he sat in front of a fireplace framed by festive Christmas decorations" as the New York Times reported (December 5, 2000), must have reminded members of the Class of 1975 of their sky-decking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Loyola University Chicago. I arrived early and sat in the empty classroom, reflecting on the fact that this was my chance to introduce the students to my passion—to get them excited about marketing as an art as well as a science. My... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details