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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Committee for two, and humbly as its President for the last year. To be honest, I didn't even know the Board existed before receiving the invitation to join, but I viewed it as a way to engage more consistently and formally with the School, with an added benefit of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting, he shows how to reverse this situation, including... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
agenda for the next few years. One of the ways I have spent my last couple of months is to talk to a large number of individuals—faculty, staff, students, alumni—and just trying to absorb ideas about different things we might do. I first... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
me a lot of leeway. He became a great mentor--still a good friend now. And so, I was able to create the interactive division at the very beginning before the commercial internet. I did the first deal with AOL and VH1 that funded the interactive division. And then it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Musing of Gilmore Tostengard by Gilmore Tostengard (MBA 1953) (Outskirts Press) This book tracks Tostengard's lifelong journey from small-town Minnesota to Arizona with a couple of oceans and numerous stops on the way. Great Inventions... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
These two volunteers forged a cross-class connection that resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. When Alex Crisses stepped up to cochair his 5th Reunion, he decided to couple his own ideas about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
walked into an empty Aldrich amphitheater, I relived memories of the case method. Candy Baffour-Awuah Candy Baffour-Awuah (Accra, Ghana) Best thing about HBS? The opportunity to pick up skills in class beyond the "technical," coupled with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an elderly View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Lessons from Everest
failure to act as a true team; and a lack of “psychological safety,” a group dynamic that emboldens individual members to ask questions, admit mistakes, and express dissent. Ultimately, a failure to question leadership — coupled with the... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
workforce. While MPower Partners continues to offer investment from its first fund, Seki has been mulling a new fund focused solely on female-run enterprises. “I would like to launch the second fund in a couple of years, then possibly a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, by a theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli. The first couple of chapters gave me a whole new way to think about my community and charitable involvement.” View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
raced up a steep hill to Broadway, found a cab, and for the first time in his life he gave a driver a couple of extra bills with instructions to get him on the next shuttle at LaGuardia. He said his son had just won a Nobel Prize, and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Technology Making HBS More Accessible
“There isn’t a thank you in the world that is big enough for that.” The couple have also supported fellowships at HBS, honoring two important people in their lives, Deborah’s father and one of Steve’s classmates. The Quazzos serve on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
banking. There’s a long way to go in terms of consumer protection. Charles C.Y. Wang: Aside from the logistical issues that Scott has mentioned, a couple things stand in the way of mainstream adoption. For people to use cryptocurrencies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
example.” Open door: “I started doing office hours a couple of years ago. It’s a great way for me to connect with the employees. It could be that you’ve got a grievance. It could be that you’ve got a business idea. It could be that you... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
consumer-based economy? China is a land of engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
Toby Klein, postmarked Tubuai, French West Polynesia. Toby wrote, "Several years ago I told the world to go to hell and moved to Tubuai, French West Polynesia, where I fish in the sea, eat fruit that grows all around me, and live in the proverbial grass hut. Every... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
could transform pension investing—or even society at large. Frank Chapman signed on, as did his wife, who had a half-dozen different accounts of her own. Now the couple can set up contributions, monitor their investments, and use drawdown... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint