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- 01 Sep 2004
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MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
HATS OFF: Jubilant Class of 2004 grads whoop it up on Baker Lawn. Student speaker Dan Heath urged his classmates to live wisely and joyfully. MBA Program Chair Carl Kester and Dean Kim B. Clark with Class Day speaker Richard Wagoner (MBA ’77), GM chairman and CEO. Once... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
The judgments of many people regarding the merits of a restaurant, hotel, or bar trump a single reviewer’s opinion. That’s the philosophy behind the Zagat Survey leisure guides, and Ted Zagat (MBA 2004) has literally grown up with that concept: His parents founded the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Interpreting the Gipper
Beschloss Photo Courtesy of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Following the death of former President Ronald Reagan in June, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) was frequently quoted in the media on his assessment of Reagan’s legacy. History’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
Many HBS faculty members make it look easy. But anyone who has ever tried to lead a discussion among eighty students will quickly realize that case-method teaching is an art. It is an art that requires a tremendous amount of training, practice, mentoring, and continual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
Since its September 2002 kickoff at HBS, The Campaign for Harvard Business School has traveled to thirteen U.S. and international cities, helping to strengthen and unify the far-flung HBS community and giving more than 3,000 alumni the opportunity to meet Dean Kim B.... View Details
- 24 May 2013
- News
Aimed at Increasing Vaccine Access, Vaxess Raises the First Part of a $3.75M Series A
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to the valley every year to harvest... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just the right spot with delicate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take Leadership and Corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Undercover Alum Faces the Music in HBS Show
When the upper reaches of HBS administration accidentally lose the School’s entire $1 billion nest egg, the FBI offers Dean Clark a way to recompense for the fiduciary gaffe — or else. The Feds have decided that HBS would make a perfect hideout for the star witness in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
Finding a job can be a challenge in the best of times — so why go it alone? Members of the HBS Club of Greater New York gathered in November to benefit from the expertise of Kate Wendleton, president of The Five O’Clock Club, a national career-counseling network.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
Other Tips Learn to embrace uncertainty, and you’ll be more willing to propose and accept the type of compromise that leads to mutually beneficial agreements. Seek out an objective critique of your plans from a third party, whether a professional or a colleague. Be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
Alumni interested in leaders of the past century now have a powerful database at their fingertips, thanks to the School’s Leadership Initiative. The online resource offers a comprehensive overview of leadership in 20th-century American business and includes detailed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother doesn’t know what I do,” he only... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As time wore on, and subsequent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market. “Although not a scientist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read signed up for a weeklong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Mentoring Award
Professor Max H. Bazerman has been named one of the recipients of this year’s Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. Based on student nominations, this award is offered annually by the Graduate Student Council of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
Declaring himself “appalled” and “dismayed“ by recent acts of greed and wrongdoing in corporate America, Dean Kim B. Clark told a National Press Club audience in Washington last February that “we need solutions that are driven by a broader conception of what went wrong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
How does HBS manage its business? For alumni interested in the financial operations of the School, HBS has published its first-ever financial report. The 42-page document provides an overview of how the School manages its resources as well as detailed information on... View Details