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Max Seel
As an undergraduate, Max Seel had two encounters that would mold his ambitions. The first was with a professor, Tom Warren, who recruited Max into an analytical chemistry research fellowship that explored naturally occurring cylindrical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
come together. It’s about being more globally competitive and creating jobs in the United States, which is a dialogue the President wants to have. You traveled recently throughout Asia with President Obama and other American CEOs and government officials. What View Details
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Mariama Keita
four different schools to evaluate her MBA options. "I felt completely at home at HBS," she says. One of the things that impressed her was an article in the school paper, The Harbus, that reported on the efforts of HBS students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
first few days or weeks of life. Nurses in those units told us repeatedly how difficult it is to find veins in these small children, about the unpleasantness from having to needle-stick babies multiple times, and the resulting costs in... View Details
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Daniel Serna
marketing projects. To learn more about agriculture itself, he studied at Yale. "Most people don't think of Yale as a big 'aggie' school," Dan explains. "But it has a long history in environmental and agricultural economics — hybrid corn was View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS
the current students. The first was a woman who, by age 25, had founded and sold a retailing business in Canada. I was 26 – yikes! Next was an army interrogator who had spent four years in Afghanistan and from whom I immediately ran,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. As a freshman at the Air Force Academy, if you are asked a question you have five responses. It’s “Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir. Sir, I will find out. Sir, I do not understand.” That’s it. Those are your five basic responses for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
Representing the HBS Association of Northern California, BioMine, cofounder and CEO Bradoo’s company, received the 2011 Alumni New Venture Contest’s $25,000 first prize for its plan to mine the 40 million tons of “e-waste” generated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Let’s Celebrate! HBS is 100 Years Young
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, saluting the School’s illustrious past and looking forward to a momentous future. She revealed that she had recently become a strong advocate of the case method after Dean Jay Light invited her to HBS, where... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
engage with the highest levels in the organization as well as the more junior folks that were critical to actually carrying out the initiatives. By the end of the project, I was impressed by exactly how integrated we became with the... View Details
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Ari Medoff
Ari Medoff's business career began in films, while he was an undergraduate at Duke. "I was CFlix.com's first employee," he says. Founded by a Duke student several years ahead of Ari, CFlix was a video media enterprise that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
first trip to Africa, and we came with a partner, friend, or family member(s). Our reasons for taking the trip were variations on the same theme — everyone shared an interest in the mystique of African culture, wildlife, and nature. A... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
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Damali Brown
educational excellence, this wasn't usually expected of most students in the public schools. In Buffalo, expectations were low. I wanted to defy the expectations." Her first visit to HBS proved favorable. "I was View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
Now in the midst of his second three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company, Rajat Gupta sits in a corner office on the 29th floor of a Chicago skyscraper, overlooking Lake Michigan and the Windy City's financial district. View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
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Behrad Mahdi
two-year commitment. At first I did everything from meeting with board members to cleaning the office at night. Eventually, I became director of development and external affairs." Within a year, the Columbia City Year moved into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Whether she's participating in privatization efforts in Central Europe or working with technology startups in Cambridge, Scott thrives on helping bring focus to chaotic, fast-paced environments. Scott shared her entrepreneurial talents at HBS, where she became one of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
in 1995, Schwartz inaugurated an annual gallery trip to New York to purchase contemporary art for HBS — an ongoing tradition that continues to change the look and feel of community space where students, faculty, and staff come together. While a visitor’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
FIRST OF THE FIRST: In 1959, HRPBA graduates Roberta (Moniz) Lasley, Sara Wilkinson, and Diana Greer enrolled in the second year of the MBA Program. BEFORE SHE ARRIVED AT HBS IN the fall of 1963, Lynne Sherwood (MBA 1965) recalls having... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
the first in a long series of “what ifs” that would shape Puck’s career. The next morning, Puck did indeed return. The furious cook demanded that he leave, but the owner intervened, sending the young man to work at a sister establishment.... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune