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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
LAMAGNA: A fondness for novelty and gadgets, but a commitment to politics and public policy as well. Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) says he’s writing a memoir titled Failing to Get Ahead, the Washington Post (May 30, 2008) reported. “It’s pretty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
the surface of their needs and trying to embed those ideas into their corporations are the black swans of the business world.” — HBS professor RANJAY GULATI writing on the importance of making the customer a partner in business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
Grantham: For this investor and environmental advocate, “the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” Jeremy Grantham (MBA ’66), founder and chief strategist of the Boston-based... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
(Written and Oral Communication); and MC (Management Communication). For generations of MBA students indentured to a demanding Muse, the trials and tribulations of report writing became legendary. As far back as 1914, the HBS faculty... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
& Associates—enters a NYC real estate debate that has lasted more than a century: Which of the city’s apartment buildings are the best? You write about 15 apartment buildings that you consider to be New York’s most storied. What do all... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Zimbabwe. Wyss writes that he is inspired by the example set by Yellowstone, which was the world’s first national park when it was created in 1872. Since then, 15 percent of the planet’s land and 7 percent of its oceans have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
around the world, and perhaps most important, signed up for an undergraduate creative writing class across the river. It gave me the space for self-expression that I needed. More than any number of cases, those two years taught me how to... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- News
Making a Difference
Print this PDF, write your message, snap your high-res photo, and share it on Twitter (@HBSalumni) or Instagram using the hashtag #HBSMakingADifference. Be sure to tell us your name, program, and graduation year. Follow @HBSAlumni on... View Details
Keywords: The Harvard Campaign
- 12 Feb 2020
- News
Culture Shift at Big Blue
unassailable, Jono Bacon writes in Forbes. The company’s revenues grew consistently throughout his tenure, up to and beyond Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM in 2018. “What is really interesting though is Whitehurst’s secret sauce: his deft... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
three-time entrepreneur and coauthor of Entrepreneurs in the Midst “The only advice I was ever given that bore fruit was that the art of writing is the art of application—the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
fictional, the descriptive events bear such close resemblance to reality that the reader is left with an informed perspective on the people, the culture, and the day-to-day business realities within China.” When asked what motivated him to View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
to a calling — what can I do to help?” Miller said. “I always wanted to go into public service,” which he did, after writing a letter to Treasury Secretary and fellow Goldman alum Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). One Treasury project Miller has... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
told the Daily Mail. In fact, Bingham’s role—working with pharmaceutical firms, planning manufacturing facilities, and making investment decisions—ties in directly with her career experience. “As a venture capitalist, I have to write a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (photo by Robb Dickehut) Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (photo by Robb Dickehut) “I had no idea how to write a book. Who does?” says author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006). “But the only way to do it is to do it.” Lemmon, a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
relating to the test itself, the kinds of students who are now applying to the MBA Program, and the type of applicant we're looking for. There have been significant improvements in the structure of the GMAT. One recent addition is a View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
more cognizant of what I'm writing and how I'm writing it. What we choose to create is an extension of our selves, our ideals, our musings. Writing a script is not unlike... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
held in the hand-glassware industry. As he writes in the preface of Westmoreland Glass, his 336-page book illustrated with many historic photographs, "Westmoreland has a story to tell that was not being told." Established in 1889 in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
Noble’s foray into publishing cause brand-name publishers heartburn? “Through the lenses of our theories of strategy and innovation, the answer is — emphatically — yes,” write HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen and Innosight partner... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
billion mark), they would think twice before writing that check,” editorialized the Harvard Crimson on May 9. The study is expected to take months, and most observers figure the idea will quietly die. But that leaves plenty of time for... View Details