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- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first collection of these that we ran last year has been one of our most... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
hardest-hit Hatay Province of Turkey; Alper Gokgoz (MBA 2010), CEO of ING Bank in Turkey; and Yasemin Sirali (MBA 2006), director of sustainability for the FIBA group, who is based in Istanbul. Each panelist shared their perspective on the devastation and their efforts... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
some close calls yourself during past sailing adventures. In 1990, on our first classroom-linked adventure, Steve Pettengill and I set out from San Francisco on the 60-foot trimaran Great American to try to beat a clipper ship’s 1853 View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
remembers the room was silent, filled only with the stressed scribblings of the other candidates at their individual desks. Bond looked up and asked out loud: “Does anybody else think it’s strange that they’re basically giving us an SAT test?” No one responded. Bond... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
tract. Seated at his camp desk day after day, the weeks turning into years, he recorded in his smooth, plain script a huge body of work. His surviving papers, almost by themselves, constitute a military history of the Revolutionary War.... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Photography by Owen Egan Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) was thinking about the health of future generations of his family when he went searching for records of his relatives in Poland. Prompted by the diagnosis of his nephew, Mark Diamond... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Sep 2014
- News
The Business of Being Beyoncé
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
to warn other members of the family,” said Diamond, whose search led him to Poland—and then to the creation of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland. Since founding JRI-Poland, in 1996, the not-for-profit has indexed more than 5 million birth,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
want the academic leaders to focus on the academics." CHANGE FROM WITHIN: Scott Given (MBA 2010) and Unlocking Potential's in-district charter model have yielded some dramatic results, including Boston's UP Academy recording the largest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Edited by April White Record producer LA Reid’s (AMP 154, 1998) first book, Sing to Me, is a memoir of his 25 years in the ever-changing music business. In the book, written... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
painful for those of us who don't like writing. As you can tell, I like talking. I like video. But writing is a very difficult task. It took me probably, off and on, over two years to write the book. Dan: You have this really long track View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United States, a new View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
textile work. A few collections — such as the 2,500-volume R.G. Dun & Co. credit report collection and the detailed productivity studies from Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne, Illinois, plant — were known by library staff and scholars to contain rich View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- News
Thanks for the Memories
storytelling session while on campus. Attendees at the Centennial Business Summit will have a chance to record their stories on Sunday evening, October 12. Not planning to attend either? Phone in your story for View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Those are some of the types of questions in our estimates that we initially hadn't addressed. And now we're really trying to break our estimates down a little bit more to be able to guide people beyond their daily spending, since daily spending isn't as useful a View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
different from previous generations. Is there something that has made it especially, to co-op your term, "cracked" or broken? Gerald: That's a great question, and I think something deep and real and profound has happened with my generation. We're View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Chinese imports are flooding the domestic market. China recorded a $124 billion trade surplus with the United States last year, the biggest bilateral trade imbalance in history. Trade friction escalated late last year when the U.S.... View Details