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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate Rodrigo Osmo (MBA 2003) for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
consulting firm used to be as good as it gets: a six-figure starting salary, a $30,000 signing bonus, a pledge to pay some or all of their B-school tuition — which amounts to more than $50,000.” But, times had changed. Students were... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jeff Immelt graduated from HBS in 1982, he had job offers from Morgan Stanley and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
consulting business, a smattering of travels. On the horizon, I knew, was a departure from full-time work. In 2008, with no particular goal in mind, I took a trip on a riverboat down the Mekong River, from Cambodia to Vietnam. Vietnam was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
(DBA) from HBS in 1963. Before beginning his long and distinguished academic career at Harvard Business School, he worked as a research associate at the International Institute for Management Development (now IMD) in Lausanne,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
nearby Hingham, Massachusetts, that she helped create and successfully led over the past eight years. Bourneuf came to HBS eager to gain exposure to developments in the broader business environment and possibly a new career direction.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 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 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes After graduating from HBS, Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) built a successful career in executive coaching and leadership development, working at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn’t the case. Entrepreneurship is... View Details
- 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
- 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 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended... 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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and consultant Carice Anderson shares her... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
favorite line in Spotlight. “A good case presents a set of facts and pushes the reader to ask certain questions. That’s what I want to do too.” Advancing a career in any industry requires some entrepreneurial verve, but that’s especially... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details