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- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
On October 1, 1976, Jon Pellegrin (6th OPM), the then 32-year-old vice president of Wisconsin's Johnson Hill Press, walked solemnly into his father George's office. It was time. Slumping into the chair opposite his father's desk, he took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today’s story is a break from our typical in-depth interview format. Today, we’re going to tell a story. It’s a story that starts with a tragic plane crash in 1944 outside a small town in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
Two days after his Nobel Prize was announced, Professor Merton spoke with Bulletin editor Deborah Blagg in his Morgan Hall office, where imposing stacks of scholarly journals had been displaced temporarily by a garland of colorful... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
succeed,” she says. “Treating them with respect is crucial.” The recipient of numerous honors (including the HBS Alumni Achievement Award in 1998), Fudge has been named one of the “Ten Most Powerful Black Women” by Ebony magazine and has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
special, and she says it's one of the main reasons alumni should support the School every year—not just during reunion years. Katzke has shown her passion for HBS by participating each year in a letter-writing campaign to classmates... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
guy, one idiot—that's me—and millions of earthworms," he explains. Romantic notions of the simple life disappear during a visit to Wolf Creek Farm, which encompasses 1,600 acres of land and over 600 head of cattle at the edge of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. "This... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
to volunteering for a potential "suicide mission"-as one journalist put it-as the 45th commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. By the late 1990s, the IRS had become accustomed to being excoriated from all sides. Errors were... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP, which started small View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
program's first case discussion, led by Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration. Using the case of BMG music-industry executive Rudolf Gassner (38th PMD), Hill instigated a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
Illustration by Chris Gash I grew up in a mostly single-parent household outside Chicago with my dad and sister; my relationship with money as a child was that it felt scarce, for sure, but we didn’t talk about it. Maybe that’s why I’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Perkins Caufield & Byers Menlo Park, Shanghai, Beijing Greentech venture capital Andrew Falender (MBA 1969) Appalachian Mountain Club Multiple US locations United States' oldest outdoor recreation and conservation organization James... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Cash. She elaborated on the community theme, noting, "I've been touched by the dedication with which my former classmates checked on one another's safety and also by the well wishes that have come in from... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
problems presented by growth, identifying growth triggers and barriers, and the financial and cultural implications of growth. Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency by James... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
IT consulting company, and my mother was a therapist. I grew up with a real love and understanding of what it takes to build a business brick by brick, as well as a deep curiosity for what makes people tick. At HBS, whenever we had the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna