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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
loan. Three months later he'd repaid the loan and made a profit of $10,000. At Harvard College, he combined his business and music skills by forming a rock band, the Maniacs, and also booking–and often playing with–six other bands. James... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
RK: Truly. I mean, I used to take the baby with me all the time on the road looking at businesses. It was often an icebreaker and chatting with business owners, you know, it was just what I did because I used to drive around industrial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
also planning to make it a TV station with an internet video component. And we have created a park and event space on a piece of land overlooking Lake Senba, which is a beautiful lake. It is next to Kairaku-en, which is a very historical... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
his own. Working with single moms Mercedes and Jennifer helped me realize that during the recession, I had become withdrawn and detached, affected by difficult business decisions. They showed me the importance of getting back in touch... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
said the state of Utah is actively working to restore water levels by encouraging better agricultural practices, metering secondary water systems, changing water rights policies, helping industries reduce water usage, and focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
2012, Phil Strause (MBA 1967), a former boss from an early career stint at Deloitte, sent Lo a business plan for a vertical farming company. She forwarded it on to the German investor, whose family, it so happened, had major European... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
report things,” she says. RELATED Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Snow removal, potholes, trash pick-up, and graffiti removal; it doesn’t bring the hipster-cred of a high-tech start-up or the glamour of a swanky Wall Street address, but a core group of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
of the house was bitter cold in the wintertime. My dad bought an electric heater for the living room so he could study there. It seems to me that some of the units must have had iceboxes, for I think I remember an ice truck periodically making the rounds. The cars... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions by John Gillespie (MBA ’83) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) (Free Press) The authors expose the flaws in the dysfunctional corporate board system: directors who are... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
many future entrepreneurs - accidental or otherwise - in his faculty role as the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Brierley entered the DBA Program and worked as a research... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
members Joseph Fuller and Debora Spar, and alumni John Alford (MBA 2001), Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), and Ashish Dhawan (MBA 1997) have identified important ways business leaders can use their insights and resources to help solve these... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
sharing upward mobility with all African Americans was the theme of the 26th annual HBS African-American Student Union (AASU) Career/Alumni Conference, "The Next Step: Revitalizing Our Community," held January 22-25. Taking place at HBS and Boston's View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
phase along with Stanford Business School professor Charles O'Reilly. The case method is the primary learning tool; overall, cases used in EDP range from an examination of General Electric CEO Jack Welch's management style, to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
impacts.” Private micromobility nicely complements other lighter-footprint travel options, such as on-demand sharing services and public transportation, Dediu says. While sharing business models have encountered bumps across the United... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links HBS Business and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details