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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
served as head of R&D in the Office of the Quartermaster General during World War II, rising to brigadier general. BETTMANN/CORBIS In 1921, Doriot left war-ravaged France for America, where he intended to enroll at MIT. Using a letter of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and Chevrolet in Martinique, as well... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
asked about what he wanted to do differently ... He and his family took a year off. The company offers six months paid. He said that he wants to offer resources to his employees to make sure that, A, they totally disconnect, because he's... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
destruction." Sharing the views of most of the industry, my septuagenarian grandfather was ill-prepared for the new era. The "how," though, was a question that had bothered me for years: How had the treasurer managed to do it? While the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
Management Committee, O’Neal is one of the firm’s top officers and is frequently mentioned as being on the shortlist to be the next chairman of the 150-year-old firm. “My father told me I wasn’t cut out for farm work,” says O’Neal, whose... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
families in their story. Their connection to community, service to others, and faith resonated with us." Christine: "We also noticed that students are rarely taught how to lead during a period of decline. West Virginia experienced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. HBS’s global outposts—15 research centers and offices spanning five continents—play a critical role in the School’s efforts to build deep expertise in business... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s Global Experience Office and by the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
coalition came out of McMinn’s community outreach efforts as owner of Vineyard 29, in St. Helena, where he moved in 2004 after buying the winery. “When we started the Vine Trail, I didn’t own a bicycle,” he recalls. “But our family enjoys... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
plopped down on his white-suited bottom and coaxed the store owner to drag him several yards by the ankles. When the audacious Johnson jumped up to proudly display a pristine backside, the owner declared, "I'll buy some!" Samuel C. Johnson, the fourth generation member... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
them, you may be missing an opportunity to do something that is extraordinarily impactful. So I refer to that experience in the book and say that that actually impacted the way that I felt about how Black people should respond to their friends and View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
was hauled into the VP’s office and given a stern lecture regarding the evanescence of superstardom in product management if one didn’t sweat the details of each project. From that point on, I always insisted on getting my hands filthy... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket and no family connections on the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. It was a massive professional challenge: Morgan Flatley (MBA 2004), who was hired as chief marketing officer last April, says that part of the reason she was excited about the gig was the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in a sawmill run by the Koerners,... View Details