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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
composition of the student body, as closely as teaching objectives permit, by the 2022-2023 academic year. Read a Q&A with the student leaders and MBA Faculty Chair Jan Rivkin and RC Chair Matt Weinzierl. AUGUST 6 In response to the tragic View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
ways to fulfill it" still inform today's politics. Excerpts from the book follow. After the death of his mother when he was a young child, and with no father in his life, Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), who would become America's first... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
and Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and his wife, Susan, an attorney, all of whom spoke about how personal events such as death and illness have affected their careers. "I was amazed at how candidly they... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
how to move a case discussion from one point to the next — are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s until his View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
resulted in 96,402 potentially preventable deaths from 2006 to 2008. Health care will change, because it must. Designing that transition with minimum threat and maximum benefit for patients is a delicate management challenge that will... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
that opportunity can change our lives—and the world—for the better. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. Belonging. Touch. Gratitude. Purpose. We need to make our interactions count. Whether it’s the death of a friend, loss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
can take you a long way.” The following year, at the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (AG Bell) in Washington, D.C., after illness and death struck top executives there, Sommer managed key tasks and projects so well that she... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
life and mature spiritually. I'm much gentler and happier now." Stuart teaches marketing at the University of South Florida. photo courtesy James Stuart Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68) "About twenty years ago the death of my parents and a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
That’s a key underlying theme of Life Is a Startup, of being able to go and identify where those are. There’s a magnetic pull towards certain things. A pull toward what we in academia call homophily, birds of a feather flocking together. That can be View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
emotions was, we're so thankful to have this experience and there was a little bit of melancholy about it too, because my father, who had passed away the year prior, would've loved to know that, that had happened. For him, his uncle Dickie was really probably his... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
the planet has been tremendous.” When disaster strikes, Spiers says, there are only two kinds of people in the aftermath: survivors and victims. “It is incumbent on those who survive to help the victims—because this is how we heal the world,” he says. “Most of us can’t... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Paris, and gut-wrenching loss, all before Lewis shockingly commandeers a multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate and leads it with aplomb. You ’ll learn how she dealt with her husband’s untimely death at the age of 50 and how she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
1979) This book ruminates, from a natural world perspective, on consciousness, choice, growth, time, and death in the context of quantum physics, Kabbala, and healing energy. It discusses natural communities, seasons, migration, cycles,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Roshan human resources director, receives frequent death threats via letters delivered to her home, email, and text messages. (Ten percent of Roshan’s operating budget is devoted to security, which includes 500 full-time guards.) In the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
revenue flow is even better because most businesses don’t go out of business—they grow out of business. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998) Cofounder, President, and CEO NOWaccount Network Stages of grief There was pain but also pride when I shut Eva & Paul Denim. It was like... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
his attempts, Reilly is drawn into a web of intrigue 12 years in the making, involving the current American president, a United States senator, a Chinese businessman, and the death of a young girl. How these seemingly unrelated elements... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of the world's most successful... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the View Details