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- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
initiatives for Giler include the talks in Gabon, where he just traveled, to roll out wireless lights that let eager students study longer, and the work at California-based Thoratec to develop a heart pump that, because it won't need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
Deighton observes that most students would agree that Patterson needs to broaden his reader base, and that the publishing industry should get away from the agricultural or “broadcast” mode of marketing, which provides little feedback on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
which offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Today, Year Up serves more than 1,300 students in nine cities across the nation. The book follows a Year Up class from admissions through graduation.... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
about what he had said. I saw the opportunity at HBS to get a lot of both very quickly. It's not just world-class teaching, but the opportunity to learn from world-class peers. In some instances, there are fellow students or guest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
to litigation. Isn’t litigation best left to the experts? My view is that every legal dispute is a business problem that requires a business solution. I tell my students that if they end up in court, they’ve already lost. Every hour spent... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
Office ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "You have to like what you are doing. Since you spend more time working than doing almost anything else, it makes a big difference if you're enjoying yourself." When Charles Rossotti became commissioner... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
entrepreneur, and as an investor.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Positions of leadership, in the broadest sense of that word, should be your goal. As you go off into the world, I hope you'll do what you really want to do rather than what you think... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
success in running an established business or entrepreneurial venture." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Have fun. Try to balance family, career, and society—something that is, in fact, very difficult to accomplish. For those who can do it, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Yahoo! took hold. What was the most valuable thing you learned at HBS? Richard Tedlow, an outstanding professor, taught me that the teacher is more important to the students than the course material. The same applies in business.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off from the thousands of regional... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up in business,” she says. One of five... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
“sell their souls.” Albion helps MBA students give themselves “permission” to be who they really want to be. The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis (MBA ’63) (Penguin Press) Now a bank holding company, Goldman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) (Courtesy S’Well Bottle) Ollie Wilson (MBA 2017) (Courtesy Ollie Wilson) Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of S’well reusable water bottles, beloved by everyone from the Kardashians to TED Conference attendees. HBS View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Competing through Social Networks with Misiek Piskorski. They were all charismatic professors and some of the cases I remember most came from their classes (chicken contact lenses, anyone?).” What advice—career or personal—do you have for current View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Amidst Change: A Conversation with Southwest Airlines' Top Management Team," a new working paper written by HBS assistant professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, MIT professor R. John Hansman, and MIT doctoral student Anne E. Dunning. The... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
outlined his vision for building an organization that would offer disadvantaged youth a year of training and then place them in meaningful jobs with partnering corporations. As a student at HBS, Chertavian continued to pursue his interest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
professor Nitin Nohria as a graduate student in 1994. To learn the extent to which chief executive turnover affects corporations, Khurana and Nohria studied the performance of two hundred of the largest U.S. companies before and after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
company’s response won praise. But students did not agree on whether United should have used the incident to make an affirmative statement on customer service, or should simply have kept a low profile and waited for attention to subside.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
ship’s. The treasure hunt to isolate ESPN’s actual financial picture was greatly aided by what I’d gleaned from accounting and other financial reporting classes. But perhaps the biggest benefit of all came about as the result of a course that many View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
research efforts in the family business field, comments, "We hope to learn much more about family companies and in turn provide them with insights that will strengthen their capacity to manage themselves well." John Davis, who has been investigating family businesses... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso