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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
one hundred grocery and department stores. Kohl focused on philanthropic activities after selling the business in 1979 and purchased the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in 1985. Elected to the Senate seat vacated by William Proxmire (MBA '40) in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Inspired by Dean Kim B. Clark's vision for the School, Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69), recently made a generous gift to HBS that will fund a new classroom building. "You can't succeed in the world today without having a global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
activities, led by facilitators from Outward Bound Professional, was designed to give students comprising 152 newly formed Learning Teams a chance to get to know each other while introducing them to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
over time. Her findings indicate that expert evaluators were indeed biased in favor of projects in their own area, which increased the application’s funding chances by 3.2 percent. But there was an... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Global Networking Night by highlighting the importance of networking, but also emphasizing the club’s interests and brand.” Facilitated with the help of several geographic HBS alumni clubs and associations, HBSHAA regional leads in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
at HBS, the conference will focus on the tools used by both large and small companies to identify and pursue opportunities in the marketplace. I thought I would give you a preview of what to expect in the Windy City. An important feature... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
before deciding to devote more time and energy to raising money for the Student Sponsorship ProgrammeSouth Africa (SSP-SA). With Nyagaka Ongeri (MBA 1997), Clarke cofounded SSP-SA in 1999. “We have a chance now to become a major player in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
Photography by Robert Schoen As a boy growing up in Flin Flon, a small mining town four hundred miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ken Baumgartner did what many Canadian boys do to pass the long winters: He played hockey. But unlike many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
donors often donate to candidates based on ideol- ogy and platform even if that person has “absolutely no chance of winning or can be expected to win by a landslide.” They also often donate out of district... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
a performance by Jason Randal, one of the world’s greatest magicians, he knew he had to get Randal to speak to students in his Managing Innovation elective course. “One theme of the course is the role of individual innovators and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
the kitchen but the job also was a chance to escape a brutish stepfather at home. Alas, not long after he started, he was abruptly fired by a volatile cook. Despondent to the point of desperation, Puck says,... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
every sector and every community,” says Goldman. While LEDA has been successful finding and developing leaders, the nonprofit is also still relatively young. Launched in 2003 by Gary Simons, founder of New York City’s highly regarded Prep... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
home office in London’s Berkeley Square is a long way from Salem, Massachusetts, where Lewis’s father was a fireman. “My career happened because someone took a chance on me,” he says, alluding to that long-ago summer internship. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
Baldwin (known by the radio call sign "Tank") was on the aircraft carrier USS Midway in the Persian Gulf, flying 45 combat missions over Iraq in Operations Desert Storm and Southern Watch. As the pilot of an EA-6B Prowler, he led a crew... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
teaching medical professionals how to help patients avoid opioid addiction by using hypnotic strategies to reduce the need for pain medications. “My work with Comfort Talk, which is the name of my company, in using hypnotic techniques for... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
Alexander Gruzen (MBA 1990) is CEO of WiTricity Corp., in Texas. In this video, he explains how his company is helping to lead the world toward a more sustainable future. “I wanted to create something very new and had a chance to join a... View Details