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Sunru Yong
My first car was a cornflower blue 1981 Chevrolet Citation. Free life lesson here, kids: don't ever market a car using a name synonymous with "moving violation." The late, great Citation – she of AM radio, vinyl seats, and a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
those questions are incredibly complex. Gupta and his colleagues solve them using a technique called "persistence modeling." Simply put (and the calculations are anything but simple), you first calculate the expected effect of... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
gratifying: We will be helping HBS to collaborate with academics from the region. The first step in that direction is the Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, which will take place at HBS July 16-28. We will convene sixty Latin... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
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
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
frenetically try to meet as many people as possible. During our first few days on campus, Director of Admissions Dee Leopold urged my class not to network – i.e., don’t fixate on developing a large rolodex of contacts but rather develop... View Details
- Profile
Steve Alden
Steve Alden has unimpeachable credentials in quantitative analytics, placing first in Massachusetts on the CPA exam in 2007, and in the top-ten nationwide. But when it came time to assess potential MBA programs, Steve gave qualitative... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
razor-sharp focus on the future. Although the products have changed over the years—from the glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the cover glass in Apple’s iPhones—Weeks sees a steady pattern of innovation paired with an old-fashioned commitment to values.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
Disruptor par excellence buys the canonical declining business. (Probably the only similarity is that they're both based in Washington— but those are different places, too). Yet this may be a more intriguing business combination than appears at View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
“That was the first time I was exposed to the concept of an MBA.” At Harvard, Harris crossed the river to attend an HBS African-American Alumni Association conference. “I had never seen so many folks of color doing such View Details
- Profile
Rawiah Abdallah
even before I graduated." A campus presentation introduced her to the school, the case method, and the Social Enterprise Initiative, which especially impressed her. "My friends at NGOs felt they weren't getting much professional... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
June 3 with a special presentation to honor the finalists in the first annual HBS Business Plan Contest. Sponsored by the School's Small Business and Entrepreneurship Club, the contest gives students experience in creating and evaluating... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
most developed region of Africa, broad and relevant insights into the challenges facing developing economies, a chance to meet and mingle with HBS faculty and fellow alumni, and an opportunity to explore the spectacular sights of Africa. Conference delegates were View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
enthusiastically showed him the parts and assemblies they are building for various aircraft and space vehicles, as well as industrial process controls. His interest and knowledge impressed everyone,” Sherrill adds. Shih says he jumped at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in... View Details
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Jeremy Lipstein
later on. By the time you come out of the program, you speak the language of the business world." Regarding the student-body environment, Jeremy says, "HBS has a reputation as a ‘hard' culture, which couldn't be more untrue. Like many current and prospective... 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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Stephanie Atiase
dreams that are the first step to actualizing goals. We then turn their stories into live theater productions where kids can see their own words on stage. It’s all about teaching kids the about the strength of words; the power of acting... View Details