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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Have Ideas, Will Travel
With a growing body of knowledge supported by its global research centers, the School last May conducted its first research symposium abroad, hosting an all-day event in Rio de Janeiro for a select group of 45 Latin American business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
allow participants to test on the job what they have learned. The program's first cohort of 63 participants met in August and early this month; a second cohort will begin in January. HBS faculty members teaching in the program include... View Details
- Profile
Kimball Thomas
administration, and I was the only intern in the West Wing,” Kimball says. “Practically every advisor was at my door, vying for the President’s time. I prepared his daily calendar and conducted preliminary trip research. All this – and it was the View Details
- Profile
Paul Lenehan
In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
the current students. The first was a woman who, by age 25, had founded and sold a retailing business in Canada. I was 26 – yikes! Next was an army interrogator who had spent four years in Afghanistan and from whom I immediately ran,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. As a freshman at the Air Force Academy, if you are asked a question you have five responses. It’s “Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir. Sir, I will find out. Sir, I do not understand.” That’s it. Those are your five basic responses for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
spring. Its goal was to help athletes near the end of their football careers learn how to own, operate, or build their own businesses. The program, a first for pro football players, offered two three-day modules delivered a month apart.... View Details
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Elisabeth Ndour
Elisabeth Ndour was not fazed that hers would be the initial HBS class to participate in the new FIELD program. In fact, she says, “I wanted to be among the first to experience it, even the ups and downs.” Her previous work experience at... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jon Rudoe
incredibly lucky to have the talents and opportunities to choose the places where and ways in which we want to leave our impressions on the world. So therefore, what do I plan? I plan to help companies grow, to create wealth for society... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
to power the world sustainably. Second, we were impressed by Vestas’ commitment to quality and efficiency. After our first year course in operations management, we were excited to see process design... View Details
- Portrait Project
Linda Li
together we could win big. My first impression of America two decades ago was just how big everything was. I ordered Big Macs and Big Gulps, and soon I learned the phrase "go big or go home!" My... View Details
- Profile
Niklas James
“I believe I was eight years, when I was playing Monopoly with my grandmother, and she said I was made for business,” Niklas James suggests, when asked when he first heard his vocational call. He followed up with undergraduate and... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
thrust toward an end past which we cannot see with any of our senses." The fact that logic is timeless—untensed—is not a coincidence: It is the tenselessness of logical explanations that makes them attractive to a mind so impressed... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill was so View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
two-year commitment. At first I did everything from meeting with board members to cleaning the office at night. Eventually, I became director of development and external affairs." Within a year, the Columbia City Year moved into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Whether she's participating in privatization efforts in Central Europe or working with technology startups in Cambridge, Scott thrives on helping bring focus to chaotic, fast-paced environments. Scott shared her entrepreneurial talents at HBS, where she became one of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Andrew Holmberg
just the bottom line. Leadership isn’t just about the P&L, it's about people and your relationships with them. It’s about understanding how the decisions you make affect not just the balance sheet, but the web of personal relationships within an organization.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
Fred Newman remembers a particularly chilly HBS cold call. Completely unprepared to open a finance case, he used a different talent to get through it. Newman did his impression of a fly and buzzed out of his seat and around the Aldrich... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
FIRST OF THE FIRST: In 1959, HRPBA graduates Roberta (Moniz) Lasley, Sara Wilkinson, and Diana Greer enrolled in the second year of the MBA Program. BEFORE SHE ARRIVED AT HBS IN the fall of 1963, Lynne Sherwood (MBA 1965) recalls having... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia