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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.; Founder, HBS Social Enterprise Initiative “Focus has always been Job One in my success. Globalization goes against that. International operations can create a real lack of focus if... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
Dichter, “but we know that if we can truly capture and quantify this, it could be revolutionary, and not just for the impact investing sector—it could change how we understand the role of business in society.” Before coming to Acumen, Dichter View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
domestic product. The lure of faraway places recently led the Bulletin to consider two different sorts of vacation enterprises in which HBS alumni play prominent roles. The first, Turtle Island (at left), is an intimate, one-of-a-kind... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
industry leader in sales and fuel efficiency. Jim McNerney grew up outside of Chicago. His father taught economics and his mother raised McNerney and his four younger siblings. An American studies major at Yale, he came to HBS for... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
my father called one day, I'd just gone to work, I left HBS and went to work in the Office of Secretary of Defense. And I was in the secretary of the Air Force's office, and I got a call telling me my mother... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
impersonal forces and events. Indeed, in the field of business history, it was HBS professor Alfred Chandler who shifted the focus of scholars and others away from individual heroic entrepreneurs toward a concentrated examination of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
government guarantees, and (3) privatization backstopped in times of financial crisis by federal government guarantees only for new loans. The third option reflects a middle-ground position advocated by HBS professor David Scharfstein and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
boss. My HBS experience was fantastic: not just having a point of view but being forced to defend it instantly has certainly helped me in live entertaining. Was the RadioChick already inside you at HBS? I guess so. I was so scared people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sofas around the warmth of the fireplace. Only 22 and a first-year student at HBS, Moore—Terry, to his fellow mountaineers—was not yet a member of this illustrious society. That honor was reserved for those who had “added to the geographical View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Primus (MBA 2000) Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) Lexi Reese (MBA 2002) Brad Gerstner (MBA 2000) Guy Primus (MBA 2000) Dozie shared her goal with her professional networks, and that’s when her HBS classmate Lexi Reese (MBA 2002) pointed her in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
privately held company's diverse concerns were sowed in 1965 when Kraft went to work at Rand-Whitney, a packaging company he later acquired in a leveraged buyout. Seven years later, he founded International Forest Products, now one of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unexplored, Whitman and Katzenberg say. (photo by Getty/Bloomberg) The demo is the work of director Doug Liman, one of several filmmakers Whitman and Katzenberg consulted to reimagine how a film could be shot, edited, and rendered with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
experiences at an early age, due to either an illness of their own or that of a close relative. "My family was politically active," Slavin continues, "and I worked on health policy issues one summer in college for Congressman Ed Markey.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
time. The decision was practical and personal: Her goal upon graduation was to land a well-paying job to support her fiancé through law school; once he’d completed his degree, it would be her turn to attend. The engagement ended, but Snyder does not regret her View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture Capital and Private... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the View Details