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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
Class Day 2008 was, in a word, wet. Umbrellas and clear plastic ponchos kept students, families, and friends assembled June 4 on Baker Lawn tolerably dry. Even drier were the 300 or so onlookers who opted to watch the proceedings live on the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
after. While Coats and Kienzle had both been VCs for a decade, the company didn’t make a single investment in its first four years. Instead, the pair met with many other VCs and entrepreneurs and negotiated nondisclosure agreements with... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
capabilities. Together, they wrote a business plan to do four independent features and set up a venture capital fund — Front Street Films — to raise the money to finance those productions. “It was the perfect intersection of my interests... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
alert and stressed all the time because you never know what’s coming next. And the sea will find your mistakes. Just two days after the start, during a big storm that knocked four boats out of the race, I... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Showing Girls the Possibilities
about children and my engagement serving on the board of National Boys and Girls Club, my engagement as a Big Sister working with young girls, and most recently, with Mother Caroline Academy in Dorchester, which is grade View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
Ink’s Wild Ride Over the Top What’s Wrong with Executive Pay? Read All About It! Complete Table of Contents June 2009 Dispatches from the Global Classroom Cynthia Carroll Chief Executive, Anglo American plc Too Big To Fail View Details
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Fida Tashfia
Four men from the back of the bus stood up and pulled out big knives. One gentleman tried to protest, urging the other passengers to fight back, but everyone remained cowed in their seats. The robbers... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
exhausting days of my life. Suicide is incomprehensible on some level, especially when the individual concerned has all the external indicators of success and accomplishment. What we do understand is that one in four Americans has a... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
there’s the adrenaline factor. If you’re coming up to a big hedge, you’re not thinking about what’s going on in the office. You’re wondering whether you’re going to get to the other side.” Successful turnarounds: Five and counting:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
Ready to roll: (from left) Singer, Gerald, Baker, and Alaoui. Photo Courtesy of MBAxAmerica On or about Independence Day, July 4, four HBS students will pile into their rented RV and set out to discover America. No, this is not... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
information for industry executives and fashionistas alike. Amed, who made British GQ’s list of the 100 most influential men in Britain in 2011, attributes much of that success to the relationships he developed at HBS. “I was uncertain about HBS for the first View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
Minden That was in early June. Ten weeks later, on a scorcher of an August afternoon, Aguilar and Bear Hug Cattle Company founder Ben Minden (MBA 2023) are celebrating four military veterans who are graduating from the program. Randy,... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Executive Solutions, a firm that guides nonprofits through successful leadership transitions. “More and more, HBS alumni are engaged in philanthropy and the nonprofit world, and the school itself is doing so much more than even 10 or 15 years ago.” The summit focused... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
earned her the title of “Queen Midas” as the highest ranking female VC on the Forbes Midas List. Farrington’s experience at HBS has had a big influence on her career and she remains closely connected to the school. In 1999, as... View Details
- Profile
Marco Crespo
see the complete spectrum of each management subject.” Marco applied, and was accepted into, four different MBA programs. HBS became his top choice for a number of reasons. “The case method is really helpful to me,” he says. “At first, I... View Details
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
while sales for 43-regular vary as much as four times the average demand. A rare size, such as 43-long, would vary even more. To satisfy retail customers, the manufacturer must hold a proportionately larger inventory of 43-regular, even... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Immelt has been busy disassembling significant elements of the conglomerate that he began leading four days before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Immelt’s goal was to make GE more streamlined, stripping away finance and consumer... View Details