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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York, Arthur Rock (MBA '51). After his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
it was assumed you’d stay with that firm for life. And if one of your corporate clients got a better offer from a competing bank, they’d stick with you anyway. Loyalty and relationships were everything. That is emphatically no longer the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Ministry of Education mine its existing data around its students, test scores, and teacher allocations. The organization also did site visits to high schools to assess the programs’ overall success. Paul... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discuss areas of interest ranging from opportunities in Asian markets, to managing work/life balance, to the impact of wireless technology on business strategy, to the achievements of African Americans in business. Highlights of some of this year's events follow. For... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
subsequently developed a great career as a marketing professor. Thank you, Professor Salmon, for a wonderful experience. Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Professor Walter Salmon was, perhaps, the member of the HBS faculty who was most memorable to me. My wife, who View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
The National Research Council, an arm of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, recently added its voice to a growing chorus of calls for immediate action to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. As it happens, the announcement came on the heels of a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
the fact that they were in charge and I was working for them, my meals came out so fast. And I would share compliments, sometimes my diners would give the extra tips for them. And so I took this lesson through the rest of my three or four decades of View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Feagler retained his passion for the mountains and outdoor life. In 1995, this avocation led to an accident that meant the end of his aviation career and the beginning of an ordeal that would severely test his physical and emotional strength. During a View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Alumni Association Executive Council, as a member of the HBS Visiting Committee, and (currently) as a member of the HBS Publishing Corporation's board of directors. A Research Bonanza The Center is still new, but it has already taken on a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
holders in annual groups of five. Board members serve six-year terms. The Overseers’ chief roles are to visit the graduate schools, departments, and museums of the University to ensure that the University remains true to its charter as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
new competitive era." Breaking the Code of Change Edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School Press) With the restructuring and upheaval that has characterized life in the corporate world over the last two decades,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
the startup. “The groups that can diligence what we’re doing tend to be corporate venture funds that have quantum scientists on staff,” Levy says—like Merck’s M Ventures fund, which has access to an in-house quantum computing task force.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
model ‘the factory of the future’ and demonstrate how a traditional industry can transform, be sustainable, and remain profitable.” Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976), Chairman, Esquel Group (photo courtesy of Esquel group) To read more stories about alumni making a difference,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
shake this nagging feeling that we weren’t getting great value for our dollar.” View the duo's fashion earrings Next Open the world to disabled travelers Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Founder, AbilityTrip HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, 2010 “We created this View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
security. Times have changed, and I know I certainly have.” After concluding his remarks, Brown introduced guest speaker John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), who is currently chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
at large by Harvard degree holders in annual groups of five. Board members serve six-year terms. The overseers’ chief roles are to visit the graduate schools, departments, and museums of the University to ensure that the University... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
—World traveler, public speaker, and consultant Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) is the author of Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking across America and The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. While on his way to View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
next decade. As chairman of one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, household, and personal-care products, Burgmans addressed issues of corporate governance. If transparency is good for multinationals, why isn’t the same thinking... View Details