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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an industrial designer who worked for the... View Details
- Profile
Andrea Nadosy
entrepreneurs, four of whom are from HBS. “We recreate the case method for own business problems,” Andrea says. She sees her West Coast group as an extension of her MBA degree. “HBS allows you to surround yourself with extraordinary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud and sludge.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Parks Management is People Management
can be an asset to the park system. Of note, the Park Service has operational considerations like any business; how to streamline operations, empower a workforce, evaluate and fund new projects, etc. While the “product” of NPS is unlike most businesses, (more conserved... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million registered listeners. Kennedy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Can't Knock the Hustle
POSEUR: A "living statue" mysteriously materialized A guerrilla-marketing campaign designed to promote a book about rapper and entertainment mogul Jay-Z became the subject of a recent EC case by HBS professor Anita Elberse. The centerpiece of the Jay-Z marketing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Portrait Project’s 2010 Edition
For the past nine years, scores of graduating MBAs have taken the challenge to write 200-word essays in response to one simple question: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The students’ revealing essays are paired with black-and-white... View Details
Keywords: Photography
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Rowin’ on the River
On a balmy October day, the HBS women’s four competed in the 43rd annual Head of the Charles Regatta, said to be the world’s largest two-day rowing event and a fall tradition that attracts some 200,000 spectators. From bow to stern, crew members were cox Lindsey Silken... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
Above: Zhang and the popular “Tao Doll” figurines that represent Alibaba’s e-commerce platform. (photo by Christina Gandolfo) I joined Alibaba in 2008 as part of its strategic investments team. I never thought that one day we would have an entertainment group. But... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Joyful Noise
Melodic sounds from a chamber organ, a gift to the School from Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) and George F. Baker III (MBA '64), filled the Class of 1959 Chapel during a mid-day concert and dedication ceremony on November 20. The "portatif" organ, a portable three-rank... View Details
- 04 Dec 2009
- News
Last Look - December 2009
Our thanks to Phil Stern (MBA ’90): “This is Heard on the Street, an a cappella singing group with members of the MBA classes of 1990 and ’91. Dolf Berle (’91) is the soloist. We’re singing in the Talent Show held in Burden Auditorium on October 20, 1989. The young... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn to prime time. "I love the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Wynton Marsalis, Entrepreneur
Jazz and classical trumpet player, composer, bandleader, historian, raconteur, and nine-time Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis appeared at the Harvard Innovation Lab in February, ably backed by a quartet of HBS professors. In a panel discussion titled “Artist as... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- News
See Us Unite for Change
Courtesy Sheila Lirio Marcelo In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month, MTV’s Entertainment brands are streaming a global television special, “See Us Unite for Change,” on May 21. Hosted by comedian Ken Jeong, the production features stars,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how to bark like a dog. My mother... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
Ann Sarnoff To Lead Warner Bros. Studio
Former BBC executive Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987) has been named the CEO of Warner Bros.—the company’s first-ever female CEO. As detailed in the New York Times, Sarnoff’s career “has included leadership roles at Nickelodeon, the Women’s National Basketball Association, Dow... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Illustration by Alex Nabaum, theispot.com Every Sunday night when I was a kid, I'd sneak out of bed to watch the late movie on TV, film classics like Patton or A Man for All Seasons. I may very well have been the only fourth grader to have a profound, life-altering... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
Artist Yazan Halwani (left) puts the finishing touches on “The Flower Salesman,” which he painted on a six- story building in Dortmund, Germany. The portrait depicts a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who became a successful flower seller in Lebanon. Artist Yazan Halwani... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 03 Jan 2019
- News