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14 Apr 2010
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The First African-American MBAs at HBS

Cunningham in 1913-14 and a year later The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States had me wondering who the first African-Americans were to earn Harvard MBAs. I thought I’d have to slog... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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Constant Inspiration

Harvard overall, in many other ways, too. For example, she was a section and class fundraising volunteer for two decades, and was a member and a VP of the HBS Alumni Board. She is a new member of the HBS Latin America Advisory Board and is an View Details

10 Jan 2017
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A Voice for Women Leaders

role is to make sure we get all the women who have been elected as members, and to create events and ways to create dialogue amongst women, and, again, to create that sense of voice for women.” (Published January 2017) View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science Institute. He was elected a... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2006
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HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered

wars” and aggressive global expansion. Pearson left PepsiCo to join the HBS faculty in 1985. He taught the first-year course Competition and Strategy and the elective Management Policy and Practice. “Andy brought an extraordinary amount... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

service, at HBS and beyond. Members of the unit have written case studies not only for the Service Management elective but also for other units, such as Technology and Operations Management, Organizational Behavior/Human Resources... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1999
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Business Ethics Fellow Honored

maintained an interest in ethics and its teaching. The Henry B. Arthur Fund for Business Ethics was established in 1987 by Arthur's daughter, Janice A. McCoy Miller (HRPBA '61), and his then son-in-law Bowen H. ("Buzz") McCoy (MBA '62). Pictured above are Nanda,... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Mark Tatum

East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where he learned early on to love baseball and to get along with all kinds of people. The decision to bypass medicine proved only a momentary redirection in an impressive college career: he went on to receive the outstanding senior... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Mar 2019
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City Hall’s Headbanger

openly public in his devotion to a musical genre not typically associated with the suit-and-tie lifestyle of elected office. “It’s the music of empowerment,” says Keller. “It’s kept me authentically grounded in every aspect of my life.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2005
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School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep

World War II to today and reveals the broad and deep entrepreneurial ethos that has permeated many required and elective courses at the School. Cruikshank also recounts how alumni have used the resources, networks, and expertise of HBS to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Shaping the Waves; A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2018
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Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia

in Singapore, she and her family traveled throughout Southeast Asia. “The fellowship enabled me to conduct research on Malaysia and Indonesia, and also to look at Chinese investments in different parts of the region,” she explains. An award-winning teacher in the... View Details

08 Jun 2011
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George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees

Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in early May. After Yeo had completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at Cambridge... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2013
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Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012

elective course The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. A former editor of the Business History Review, McCraw was a prolific author. His other notable books include Prophet of Innovation (a biography of Joseph Schumpeter) and, most... View Details

Keywords: obituary

07 May 2025
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Scaling New Heights

Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2018
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Ready, Set, Launch

outset, then they waste important resources trying to sell it, says Professor Tom Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. “It takes a lot of time, time equals money, the money runs out, and the startup fails painfully,” he says.... View Details

25 May 2011
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Singapore Star

has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and public service, most recently as Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Leadership in Motion

Leadership in 2007. In the spring of 2016, Veron was elected a trustee of Scarsdale Village. Community involvement also planted the seeds for the Acceleration Project (TAP), a nonprofit Veron cofounded in 2012 to encourage the growth of... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership

journals and in elected positions at the Academy of Management. Before joining the HBS faculty in 1998, Tushman taught most recently at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, where he was honored for excellence and innovation... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

built,” she stresses. Currently at work on a book based on her globalization study, Neeley teaches several Executive Education offerings and the MBA elective Leading Teams in a Global Economy. Her case study “Language and Globalization:... View Details