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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest in the natural world and led Thoren to the US Merchant Marine... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
ground daily on the spot. The sample board, always filled with fresh bread slices, gave customers the chance to try the regular and seasonal favorites, including Grandma’s White Bread, honey whole wheat, cinnamon swirl, nine-grain, and challah. McCann, who gave up a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
whose lives would become inextricably linked with her own: HBS classmate Thomas C. Barron, whom she would later marry, and a Tanzanian woman named Rukia Hamisi, who would become an important friend. Hired by McKinsey after graduation from HBS, Barron worked as a View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
says. While in high school, he and his father invested in an apartment building that Peter managed while attending Ohio State University. After briefly exploring a career in medicine, he decided to return to his entrepreneurial roots and... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
veteran of the beauty business who has devoted her career to helping create and launch some 400 products for other companies. “The initial round of funding came from Bonnie Messing, Tracey Bilski, and Lauren Bender (all MBA 1987),” Pao... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Of all the great HBS professors, Chris Christensen was unequaled as a champion for case-method teaching. He elevated the School’s signature method of instruction to an art form and then devoted much of his career to helping other teachers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
forgotten sectionmate. Following are brief updates on some of the more far-flung members of the Class of 1977. Whether their life journeys have led them to distant parts of the globe, down untraditional career paths, or on quests for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Curtis-Bey Photo courtesy of Sarah Curtis-Bey Sarah Curtis-Bey (SVMP 1997, MBA 2006) Executive Director, Clinique Global Marketing New York City "SVMP was a major driver of my decision to pursue a career in business and an MBA at Harvard.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
president of the World Bank, and chair of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Partners HealthCare, in addition to holding numerous consulting posts in business, government, and education. Throughout, as a member of the faculty since... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
telecommunications, plans to land a job in consulting or an Internet startup after earning his MBA next June. Chances are his civilian career will continue to keep him flying high. View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
given my background, I could come in and make a difference." Wood's prior career included working for Gil Kemp (MBA 1976) in direct marketing for Bertelsmann and for Pearson Education publishing companies. In 2005, she decided to hang a... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Death Star,’” recalls Crespin, the founder of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that specializes in tackling big societal problems and bridging difficult, cross-sector relationships. He adds, “The environmental people had their arms... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
career prospects and the results were simply stunning - promotions, raises, huge perks, all beginning the year I rearranged my office according to Feng shui. How can a person learn more about this ancient science? The easiest way to start... View Details
- 04 Jan 2011
- News
Become a Better Leader
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
the workforce-management platform that Auerbach cofounded in 2016. Earlier in her career as a consultant she had seen the effects of inflexible workplaces. Around her, many of her top women colleagues were... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix... View Details