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Kimball Thomas
In the third grade, Kimball Thomas sold chocolate-chip cookies door-to-door to save money for the bicycle he wanted. In college, his logistical and travel-arrangement skills were put to a higher test: as a White View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
Swisher; Pod Save America. “I worked in the White House with those guys. They’re really good.” Best business advice: “It’s summed up in a great quote often attributed to Einstein. ‘If I had an hour to solve... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
problem, not the root cause,” he says. To learn more about the private sector, Goodwin left the air force to work for a multinational company and to prepare for business school. But his path changed course in early 2001 when President George W. Bush’s new... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
fund for low-income students from his community that is still active nearly 20 years later. As an undergraduate he was president of the Harvard College Democrats, interned at the White House Office of Public... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
self-select yourself out. The Admissions team truly crafts an incredibly diverse class, in so many respects, so don't assume your talents, background, or future passions won't fit at HBS. They absolutely will and you'll make everyone’s experience better for it. Update:... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
than 1 percent of all senior executive posts. How does one explain, then, the success of Kenneth Chenault, president, COO, and CEO-designate of American Express, or of Ann Fudge (MBA '77), president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
addition to my interests in tech and startups, I have also always been passionate about politics and government. In 2020, I left my VC job and joined the Biden-Harris Transition Team, before continuing on to join the White View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
the US presidential campaign season New Off Script: An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide by Josh King “Campaign and political imagery is manufactured... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
agenda was rethinking Baker Library, the School’s intellectual — and physical — center. Part of the original HBS campus, Baker was dedicated in 1927 and initially housed books, classrooms, and offices. While the library’s world-class... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
As a policy advocate focused on youth issues, I once had the opportunity to work alongside national nonprofit leaders, Congressional staff, and White House officials. As much as we extolled the importance of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice. In 1982 he was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
surmount them or succumb to them. Memorable childhood books? The Laura Ingalls Wilder series that begins with Little House in the Big Woods, for their vivid reconstruction of a world gone by and a child’s place in that world. Those books... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
the real world. SEPTEMBER 1967: Orientation LILLIAN LINCOLN LAMBERT grew up in Powhatan County, outside Richmond, Virginia, where she attended segregated schools. “We had great teachers who often told us that you’ve got to work hard because you have to be twice as good... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
progression from the 1925 McKim, Mead & White footprint for the first residential business school in America to an array of HBS projects slated for completion by 2023, he emphasizes the importance of continuity and symmetry. “When the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities
during her time as a White House intern (Fall 2010), Camille and her sister Rachel founded Healthy Girls Save The World (HGSW) on August 8th, 2011. HGSW seeks to provide "transformational experiences and... View Details