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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
community together in a common purpose. "I'm a big consensus builder," he says, "and I love helping to motivate people." In addition, Hughes served on the HBS Student Association and was production manager for the HBS Show, the School's annual student-produced,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss retailing trends and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, who accepted the position in January 2002. “He said, ‘We don’t care. It will be a good case study either way.’” “I wanted to get the unvarnished story as it unfolded in real time,” says Garvin, noting that he and his coauthor, Assistant Professor Michael Roberto,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
Watch Video We recently sat down with entrepreneur and HBS alumnus Robb Fitzsimmons (MBA 2016) to talk about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - and the ways it will benefit future leaders of technology ventures. Here's what he... View Details
- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
would sleep for two hours, so I would aim to work for an hour to an hour and a half each day. If it didn’t happen, I’d make up for it at night. There was a period of about two weeks when he was waking up every half hour. I sat by his... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
David A. Frankel
failures,” Frankel recalled. One success was Healthbridge, which grew into the largest independent healthcare data processing company in Africa. Despite his obvious entrepreneurial and investing skills, Frankel felt a relentless itch. The HBS acceptance View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
MaterialsMicrofinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case Harvard Business School Case 808-104 CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Emerging Into Singapore
umbrella. A team of 15 to 20 ‘Avengers’ sit in Singapore working on the overall strategies from operations to performance enhancement to market expansion. The office has a lively ‘big family’ feel and a great balance of hard work and good fun. I was warmly welcomed in... View Details
- Profile
Richard Lou
"But when I sat in on a couple of HBS classes, it transformed how I thought about learning." As an example, Richard cites a case about Zipcars in The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM). "The professor was able to draw out an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
next morning, they seemed to be talking about the same story, but now they were reporting from Minnesota. When I realized they were discussing a different case—that of Philando Castile, executed in his car while his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
work on my application to HBS. I was thrilled when I was invited to interview—but nervous. Wearing my lucky tie helped a little bit. Thankfully, those 30 minutes felt more like a conversation, and the interviewer really got to know me personally. Afterward, I View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
A spicy chickpea dish © Kirti Poddar on Flickr When Dean Nitin Nohria sat down for an interview with us last September, we asked: "What do you like to do for fun?" His answer: "I love to cook. I'm vegetarian, and I cook Indian and Italian... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
passion she'd had since childhood: food. "We always sat together at the table for dinner," she says. In her adulthood, "I used cooking to recreate that warmth and connect with friends." Although "going to culinary... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to reimagine the passenger... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon