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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
company is planning to add 50 employees over the next year and currently is serving more than 500 clients in 50 industries throughout Brazil, as well as clients in Turkey, Argentina, and Portugal. “Hanging a three-foot check for $50,000 in a conference room has had a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
exhausting days of my life. Suicide is incomprehensible on some level, especially when the individual concerned has all the external indicators of success and accomplishment. What we do understand is that one in four Americans has a... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
there’s the adrenaline factor. If you’re coming up to a big hedge, you’re not thinking about what’s going on in the office. You’re wondering whether you’re going to get to the other side.” Successful turnarounds: Five and counting:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
Ready to roll: (from left) Singer, Gerald, Baker, and Alaoui. Photo Courtesy of MBAxAmerica On or about Independence Day, July 4, four HBS students will pile into their rented RV and set out to discover America. No, this is not... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
information for industry executives and fashionistas alike. Amed, who made British GQ’s list of the 100 most influential men in Britain in 2011, attributes much of that success to the relationships he developed at HBS. “I was uncertain about HBS for the first View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival, centered around indoor cycling. Each... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Keeper, a faith-inspired humanitarian organization that partners with South Sudanese women in support of social, political, and economic justice. In 2016, Brooks and a friend spent four days hiking the 26-mile Inca Trail in Peru to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
those five quarters? Susan Wilner Golden: Okay. And first, to warn you, I know that's funky math. There's only four quarters. DM: [laughs] SWG: Um, but this was the paradigm and framework I came up with. It was too hard to think of life... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
agency’s COO. Explains Cohen, “The department was underfunded, its buildings overseas were not in good shape, it couldn’t even communicate by open Internet overseas, and the personnel system needed changes. It turned out to be a 24/7 commitment for View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
refrigerators, powerful-and-cheap computing, and $20 hacking kits, there is an infinite number of attack points and shrinking barriers to entry for the bad guys. So how do we win? We talked to four HBS alumni whose cybersecurity... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
definitely didn't have that for a second. I kind of go all in on these things. I've walked across America four times when. I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I've walked across Spain twice. When I set on these big, View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
own, obviously, the rights to the brand, the Lego brand. And it's going to impact them in a very, very big way. This is not a subbrand. This is not a Ninjago movie, or a Bionicle movie, or Chima movie. What I asked them for The Lego Movie... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
“Surely you don’t want me to hire somebody for a job that doesn’t exist?” The reaction from callers has been very positive and very respectful. Months of bad press after 9/11 must have crushed morale. How did you turn that around? Through a quirk of history, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation; and... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Executive Solutions, a firm that guides nonprofits through successful leadership transitions. “More and more, HBS alumni are engaged in philanthropy and the nonprofit world, and the school itself is doing so much more than even 10 or 15 years ago.” The summit focused... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses... View Details