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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
balance sheet. The most important thing is the people. If you love a job but hate the people, you will not survive. If you love the people but hate the job, you’ll be OK. Sometimes in life you have to hitch your wagon to someone. When I... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) took a rather winding path to HBS. She first travelled south to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering at Duke University and then to the West Coast for a master’s in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
cabin. “When I get out, I still don’t feel like talking.” Some of the newer cranes are computerized, but Delaney prefers to do the job by feel — something he’s well qualified to do. “Too long,” he answers, when asked how long he’s been a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
one-hour world,” recalls Dick, who was then invited to write for Lost in its first two seasons, work that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award as well as an Emmy for best drama. “You’re a nomad, a kind of creative Bedouin,” says... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
Fittingly, Spector’s journey to ultrarunning was a long one. For the first three decades of his running career, Spector stuck with marathons (a mere 26.2 miles) and informal trail runs with friends around California’s Muir Beach and Mt.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
sister. MY FIRST JOB was as a copyboy in the classified ad department. Our brand-new technology was 60 women on IBM Selectric typewriters. I would go around every few minutes to pick up their copy and take... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
office, which looks out on the park, Nichols pauses to reflect on her career. Thanks to scholarship assistance, Nichols was able to attend both Cornell and, later, Harvard Business School. "In a way, the HBS experience foreshadowed my theme park View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Career Makeover
with maybe a few widely available added touches she’ll bring in from outside. And often, by her own choice, she’ll do the job all in one day. “If I was rich, I would do it for free,” declared Davis, who previously spent twenty years in... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
first president of Academic Decathlon and subsequently helped guide its transformation from a small local event to the international competition it is today. After Patton left the Olympic committee, he became the president of the Academic... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
setting up their own digital service teams. That's a big win for us, and we're always trying to encourage people to take jobs in government and have government hire technologists. And the final thing is to turn this into a movement, and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have become normalized. “Often,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team
Daniel Yergin is a founding partner of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Prize, which chronicles oil’s rise and impact on the world. He was winding up a postdoctoral fellowship in international affairs at Harvard and was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
we knew we were going to be able to put it all together again. We told people, “If you had a job at Oreck before the storm, you still have a job at Oreck.” And we continued to pay people even as we were... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Creation of Time Magazine, by Isaiah Wilner Ann Moore took the lowest-paying job she was offered after receiving her MBA-because she loved magazines. She has remained with Time Inc., one of the world's most influential companies, for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
first on-demand jobs platform. Prizes were also awarded to student teams in the business and social enterprise tracks at the event, with winners in all three categories each receiving $75,000, runners-up,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
individual happiness. And I think that's really derived from pursuing your own passion. My name is Jeff Perls, I'm the class of 1967. Keep your eye on the ball, basically. It really revolves around making sure you knew what you had to focus on to get the View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
and great-grandmothers in the African-American community have always taught young people to help others in need. That's the sort of wisdom that anyone would do well to follow." Lillian Lincoln Lambert, the first African-American woman to... View Details