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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
had experience with retail in emerging markets: Monroy, who is Colombian, worked for Procter & Gamble in Mexico for seven years, while Campbell held a number of positions at Walmart, with stints in India and China (which was “like going 20 View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
With thirty years in the investment banking business under his belt, Richard L. Franyo (MBA ’72), then managing director of investment banking for Deutsche Bank, was ready for a change. But after a heady career that included playing a key... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 11 May 2023
- News
How FOMO Became a Fixture
It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the genesis of the phrase, the impact... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
children are eating with my housekeeper.” I quit the next day and left to start my own small business, because I wanted to enjoy growing up with my children. I kept thinking, they are going to be 8 and 4 for only one year, and I need to... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
worlds— across cultures, sectors, and disciplines. through social finance, i bring this sensibility to building new models for social change.” Palandjian, who grew up in Hong Kong and came to the United States at 15 to attend Milton... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 May 2023
- News
Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion
This year marks the return of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an experiential learning opportunity that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum hands-on exposure to how business is conducted in markets around... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
objects of undergraduate fascination and lore. They’ve been written about in four Harvard Crimson articles in the 1960s-80s (see here, here, here, and here). Besides being the setting for a murder mystery (Jane Langton’s The Memorial Hall Murder, 1978), the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
car, which then necessitated car insurance. As people progressed along the track toward adulthood—starting a family, buying a home, and so on—they would level up their coverage. “But that cookie-cutter game of life doesn’t exist anymore,”... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
half of the grade depended on speaking in class. Most of the men could really talk. I was intimidated and could barely think of anything to say, unfortunately, until finally one of my professors told me I’d better start contributing unless I wanted to flunk out. So, I... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
business and civic leaders helped the city clean up its act, but by the early 1980s, most of the smokestacks had shut down anyway, as manufacturing jobs moved out of the area. People left in droves. Visitors today see a different... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
Applitek 1988 Cofounds Sigma Network Systems 1991 Founds Nu-Link, Inc. 1996 Cofounds NetCore Systems 2000 Cofounds Starent Networks 2007 Starent Networks IPO 2009 Cisco buys Starent Networks 2012 Cofounds Altiostar Networks Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO, Altiostar... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
reduce the quantity supplied.) "In the years ahead, competition from these sorts of new entrants joining already overburdened markets will only get more intense." No Exit? Both Bower and Jensen tend to focus on excess capacity in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons