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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
adds, "was to catch up with my classmates and share once again the spirit of our Section C." William G. Messenger (MBA '88) Drawn to a religious life as an Episcopal minister after launching a successful career in the high-tech industry,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
home," 36 percent were actually working parttime, and another 12 percent worked on contracted projects. Of those who had left the workforce but planned to return, 61 percent said they were seeking nontraditional business careers and had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
called them. In fact, he was just now planning an expedition to a blank area of southeast Alaska. But a summit higher than Everest? Carpé flipped through the book to learn more about the mountain better known as Minya Konka, but the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
the Cicero Group in 2001, working out of his house with a few colleagues. “When I talk to young entrepreneurs today, they always ask about my business plan,” he notes. “I have to laugh. My business plan was a mortgage and a baby on the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
fact-filled breakout sessions designed to help organizations become more successful in achieving their philanthropic goals. “To our knowledge, there has never been such a gathering of top nonprofit executives,” said Bruce Marcus (MBA... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
Personal financial futures, and those of the generations that follow, are considered in every acquisition. How does Granite Equity find success stories like Microbiologics among the many businesses that call Minnesota their home? Ask any... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
Cooper This past summer saw another successful HBS Global Leadership Forum, this time in Washington, D.C. Attendance exceeded 640 alumni and guests, many of whom had not been to a previous GLF. On behalf of the Alumni Board, who turned... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
Business Leader of the Year In late January, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) presented Arthur Rock with its Business Leader of the Year Award. The HBSA/NC annually recognizes a highly successful individual who has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
expected to announce a bid for lieutenant governor in Georgia; and Mitt Romney (MBA 1974), who is anticipated to announce a run for the US Senate in Utah. “The interest really built on itself as people started to see that they could be View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in the company’s subsequent View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs reform, the book presents specific... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
hallmark of sweeping, technology-driven change, HBS alumni, faculty, and invited guests representing nearly thirty countries considered today's newest frontier: the world of information technology. "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
dictates that success often derives from predictable patterns so that people know how to plan and where to follow. But twenty years after sitting through her class that morning, I can confidently say that... View Details