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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
logistics of running a university based in a remote location. “It takes over two hours to drive to the city of San José when we need to meet with bankers, government officials, or lawyers,” explains Condo, who averages two days a week on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
director at Summit Partners, says her connection to the contemporary art world began casually. The mother of four had taken a break from real estate development (Rouse & Associates, then AEW Capital Management) after the birth of her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
around the world — many of which have a single emergency number service. In their world travels, Raju and other Satyam executives saw the difference that a coordinated national emergency response system... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
self-expression, it is also a carefully and thoughtfully organized pop up city of 70,000 people with a $36 million budget. Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) is the woman who controls that budget, serving as Burning Man's treasure. And in this... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
to be saying on her way out the door, ‘Well, I know I got fired, but at least now we have a plant in Elmira that provides US capacity for products at 50 percent higher cost per unit than what’s available on the world market.’” But if the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
formas, dividends, debt maturity, asymmetric information, and more. Power Is Boring: The Globalized World as Explained by the Most Anarchic of Economists (Il potere è noioso: Il mondo globalizzato raccontato dal più anarchico degli... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales approaching $2 billion. Airports around... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
budgets of most business schools. Each year, schools and businesses around the world purchased millions of copies of HBS’s famous case studies. Something like 6,000 young people applied each year for admission to HBS. Of those, about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
ever dreamed that frequentflier miles would become a multibillion-dollar source of incremental airline revenue," he notes. In 1982, Brierley was named vice president of sales and advertising for Pan American World Airways, where he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
against fraud and corruption. I was in Iraq for three days last August. To be honest, things did not feel good, even then. Baghdad used to be a bustling, thriving metropolis, but when I was there, it truly looked like an occupied city —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
James Cook University to open several new campuses, the first of which is in Brisbane. In recognition of her business acumen, she was recently appointed to the advisory board of Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World and to the board of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Ptaath’s Hammer by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) Westminster & York Ltd. A 17,000-year-old city is discovered, predating all other known civilizations. A nightmarish blight threatens to spread over the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and COO of the 2010 World Series–winning Giants, is on the air at a local sports radio station. He’s announcing plans to take the Series trophy on tour, not only throughout Northern California but also across the country to the site of... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
between sectors within countries, as international. Agriculture will need ever-greater amounts of water to feed growing populations, even as burgeoning cities — with their greater wealth and political clout — typically draw off more water... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
challenges of this experience have been beyond anything I could have imagined." Just as his work straddles two industries, Verba's lifestyle spans two cities. "I live in San Francisco," he notes, "but I spend half my week in Los Angeles. The company is split between... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
fan to be comfortable with consuming musical experiences in a virtual format.” —Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) Dan Morrell: Artist and activist Madame Gandhi got her big break in the music industry when she was invited to join the group MIA on their View Details