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- Portrait Project
Cyril Abel Vergis
death has proven that it is also possible to find happiness in carrying a fallen torch. Like my mother, I too will help people get to the "finish line" with the grace and dignity they deserve. I will make a difference in elder... View Details
J. Ogden Armour
Upon the death of his father in 1901, Armour took over the direction of Armour and Company. Under his management, sales increased from $200 million in 1900 to $1 billion in 1920. When Armour retired in 1923, the company employed over... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
their numbers have been in precipitous and alarming decline in recent years. One environmentalist told Crespin he initially feared the meeting was “like going to the Death Star”; but, by finding common ground, they are working together as... View Details
Martha R. Ingram
After her husband’s death in 1995, Ingram successfully managed the family business, making a series of bold moves, including the spin-off and public offering of Ingram Micro, the United States’ largest computer wholesaler. Today, Ingram... View Details
Keywords: Services
- Portrait Project
Mike Cohen
When it comes to the legacy I hope to leave, I have some tough acts to follow. My grandparents escaped death in Nazi concentration camps to provide a safer environment to raise their children. Thirty years later, my parents fled a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Foluke Otudeko
understood this and believed "the greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision." Come see my vision for Africa I see not just starvation and death but a vibrant Africa; empowered to dream big. Not just dirty... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarina Hickey
I will never forget the stench. Or her haunting blue eyes, wavering between consciousness and a death she might have welcomed. She couldn't have been older than 12, this half-naked, starved girl I now cradled in my arms, hurrying around... View Details
Stephen Birch
Under Birch’s direction, Kennecott Copper experienced impressive growth. In 1915, the firm had 450 employees and $11 million in sales. By the time of Birch’s death in 1940, Kennecott Copper had nearly 29,000 employees and sales in excess... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- Portrait Project
Anjali Thakkar
naked, unresponsive body. I retreated into the furthest back corner, trying to understand. This is how the patient would die: with strangers pounding on his chest in a futile effort to create life from death. I felt sick. Forty-five torturous minutes later, the time of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Woman in the House
Boston native Kathy Davis (MBA 1982) never intended to go into politics, or to get her name in the Hoosier history books. But on October 20, 2003, she did both when she was confirmed as the first woman lieutenant governor of Indiana — a vacancy created by the... View Details
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Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership | Information Technology
terrorists for more than three days, resulting in the deaths of 34 people and 28 people injured. From the devastation would emerge astonishing tales of courage and leadership from unexpected places. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower burns... View Details
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006) More than 70 years ago, the record of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland, was nearly lost to history. But archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been excavating the site, uncovering mass... View Details
Mills B. Lane, Jr.
Taking over the small southern bank after the death of his father, Lane went on to build it into one of the largest and most profitable banks in the Southeast. Lane shook up the staid banking community by employing a variety of marketing... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
leader in question is experiencing a life-and-death dilemma—if he doesn’t get it right, he’d be killed. It’s very, very exaggerated. We’d ask, “How is this speaking to you?” Everyone would start by acknowledging that death was not a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
his death to the HBS community, Dean Nitin Nohria said, “John Whitehead has been an alumnus we have held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership. It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we... View Details
Eugene W. Rhodes
Having spent his summers in college working at the Tribune, Rhodes was selected to run the paper in 1922, following the unexpected deaths of both the Tribune’s founder and its managing editor. Despite his youth and lack of experience,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Max (Francis) Factor, Jr.
Taking over the family company after the death of his father in 1938, Factor is regarded as a pioneer in the cosmetics and makeup business. He transformed the company from a Hollywood makeup studio into a worldwide provider of name brand... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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Zubby Achara
weeks and my uncle’s death before I finally figure out what. It may be uninspiring but ever since, my aspiration has been to be myself and do what makes me happy. Today, I take classes to learn, and not for the grades. I accept jobs that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
through Google searches, you notice we don’t block you from the information because we believe in the open internet.” “This issue and question around communities, I think, is pervasive. I read The Death and Life of Great American Cities,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis of the main characters in View Details