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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
opened the James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences. A trustee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, James has funded numerous programs that encourage youth to get involved in the sport. If there is one endeavor in which Tom James... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
traditional forms of career advancement. After eight years with the company, he decided to go to HBS. “The idea came from my time as an intern at Digital Equipment Corp. in the United States while I was a university student,” he said. He... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
available until late 2006, and Herp figured the small turboprop would be a good means of testing his idea in the marketplace. Linear Air began by offering point-to-point service to over 500 cities in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, eastern Canada, and the Caribbean.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
Kemp took a leadership role in helping to communicate the needs and concerns of international students to the HBS community, make the student elections process more efficient, and increase the availability of on-campus housing for... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
the Maldives, Bhutan, and Thailand. “As I worked in development, I realized I didn’t understand enough about finance and commerce,” he says, explaining why he applied to HBS. “It was also a bit about taking a step back to understand what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at Lehman Brothers in London learning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
his positive college experience, business school became very appealing. “I have always been extremely curious. I have found some success in finance and investing, but in order to get to where I was, I had to neglect a lot of other... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the board of trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
International Dinner on May 29. The black-tie event brought together more than four hundred HBS alumni and other business leaders at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. In his speech, Paulson emphasized the need for corporations and Wall Street to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
in the computer industry, while Professor Malcolm S. Salter's work on corporate strategy, organization, and governance looks at how ownership structure affects organizational performance. Asso-ciate Professor Karen Hopper Wruck, who specializes in corporate View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
people, trying to get them to trust you. And the more authentic that bond is, the better leader you become. And it's that simple. You don't have to come up with any other fancy formula. And as soon as I internalized that, it totally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
an international body that handles a large number of private equity funds. This kind of groundwork will remain necessary until blockchain sees wider adoption, says Professor Karim Lakhani, in part because it’s a departure from about 700... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob Go (MBA 2007) NextView Ventures For the Birds Here’s what I wrote in my... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor and senior associate dean for international development. More than half of the HBS faculty are actively involved in international research. While they often work with a... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
International Finance Corporation; Sarah Wright Meyers (MBA 1997), Founder & Managing Partner, Hull Street Energy; and Matt Sonnesyn (Harvard Kennedy School, 2002), VP of Infrastructure, Energy, and... View Details