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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
gave me his recording with the instruction: "Don't change a word of it." I never learned if he was pleased with what he saw in print. There was little routine during World War II, when the School hosted a... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling, Frank V. Cespedes laments the fact that sales and strategy rarely make a joint and complementary appearance in MBA classrooms or academic journals. Professors stick safely to the realm View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
entrepreneurial spirit, and fight disease of whatever kind." Less than a year later, those words took on a tragic relevance for Crowley and his wife, Aileen, when their 18-month-old daughter Megan was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
employees with investors.” For students planning early career strategies, Immelt had these words of advice: “When you join a company, find somebody you trust. I had mentors early in my career who helped me... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
elements that give shea butter its gold status in Africa. “The next time you’re at the grocery store or a beauty store, flip over one of the containers that says ‘shea butter’ on the front,” says Akuete. “A lot View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
about, are one of the third-rail topics in the world of women and boards. I do not support quotas even though I acknowledge that more women are on boards in many European countries as a result View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
the important role that his mother continues to play in his life, the son describes the family matriarch with the same words that others might use for him: “extremely hardworking, devoted to family, a very strong person, and a lot View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
noting that word of mouth is the organization’s best marketing tool. While the ups and downs of the economy pose a challenge, Silbert says that... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
Club of Chicago, the School's faculty, and the event's corporate sponsors, the 1998 Global Alumni Conference was hailed as a roaring success. In the words of Mary Monnet (AMP... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
complements better, more plentiful, and less expensive. Traditionally, business strategy has largely focused on competition - Coke versus Pepsi - and in the process underplayed complements. There hasn't even been a word to describe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Russian TV in which he addressed some 90 million bemused viewers in his version of their native tongue. Notes Tobias, "Sure, it meant I had to pronounce words like pryedopryzhdyeniye> while reading from a... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
promote, in word and deed, the salutary effects of entrepreneurship. In keeping with that objective, in October 1945, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the first HBS-based professor to be named a University... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
happening inside the mind of someone with an eating disorder is that person thinks I've lost control. That person thinks I'm fat. And everything is filtered through a lens of, I'm not good enough. There aren't a lot View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
seen. In these recent cases, while there’s talk of regulation and of laws, there’s very little reference to the word ‘integrity.’ That’s the key to it! Integrity is the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products,... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
died because no one could dig them out of the rubble. "There are no words to describe the magnitude of the pain," he said. "My main goal now is to reach to those survivors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley