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- 01 May 2013
- News
Paolo M. Pellegrini, MBA 1985 & Henrietta Jones
first Italian minicomputer was developed,” recalls Pellegrini, who now lives in New York City. “In high school, I had summer internships at various software development companies, and I credit those experiences with a big portion of my... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Ogden, who grew up in a working-class family, recalls the power of his own education, leading up to his time at HBS, where the idea of paying it forward was part of the School’s DNA. “There’s something in the genetic code of the School... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
People Watching
finance department before moving to Sports Illustrated, where she spent ten years before accepting the top spot at People. At the time, the magazine was just a black-and-white “grocery store” publication. “Nobody else wanted the People job,” View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
d'Arbeloff says. "In the small-world category, all these strands connecting around this one film—it's a very exciting moment." D'Arbeloff, who runs Roadside with his business and life partner, Howard Cohen, recalled the moment—rather, the... View Details
- Portrait Project
May Lam
attachment. Attachment, according to Buddhist philosophy, causes suffering when change inevitably comes. In that moment, I recalled a time when I had lost several large paintings that had taken me months to complete. I had cried for days... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Frankel
"boma". I don't want to miss another friend's wedding. You could literally taste the love at my grandmothers Passover table. As I recall the flickering festival candles, I hope to be a strong link in the chain so that our yet... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
At that moment, the answer was not quite clear. However, as the days passed and the summer (technically, it’s winter here) progressed, it became clear that what HBS equipped me with was not the hundreds of cases I read and analyzed, as I will be the first to admit I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
graduating, I went back to Mumbai and worked with my family’s office furniture business for a few years. Our 5th Reunion brought me back to campus in 2007. I was married and working in London at the time, and I recall spending most of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
model that will predict how its competitors will react to changes in pricing. “I felt completely clueless,” he recalls in the case. The dynamics of the project team are equally demanding. Keller, who launched and ran a company in Cambodia... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
"Wall Street in 1971 was not just subtly hostile toward women, it was blatantly so," says Havens-Hasty, who today sits at the helm of her own investment management company, Havens Advisors. Laughingly referring to herself in those days as "the first 'nonbull' in the... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
and Lisa Falzone, cofounder and CEO of Revel Systems on a panel discussion entitled “Entrepreneurship: Gender, Adversity and Success” at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston on Monday. Hyman recalled that her foray into seeking venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
Approaching Sound of Change"; and "The Myth of the Successful Businessman." As I thought about this piece, I recalled the many lively stories of interesting alumni: the publisher of the Old Farmer's Almanac; the uranium prospector turned... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
for savvy dealmakers. The siren song of real estate never sounded so sweet. Then the music stopped. Dan Dubrowski (HBS MBA '90) remembers it well. "When I came to HBS in 1988, real estate was hot. When I left, it was in a virtual depression." Classmate Hoke... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
with investors? After Ballmer left, the relationship with Wall Street needed tending to. The shares had given up a third of their value during his tenure, even though sales almost quadrupled. Fritz Foley, who attended Harvard Business School with Hood and went on to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
Apache helicopters in Afghanistan. “I’ve never met anyone like this before,” she recalled thinking. The odds for meeting someone while at HBS, the article says, favors women. “A campus study of its business-school alums found that a third... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
Jose Arche (MBA 2016) has had a lifelong curiosity about how things work. “There were always family stories being told about my taking everything apart,” recalls the former engineer at the Boeing Company. Arche’s experience at Boeing made... View Details
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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
jumped at the opportunity!” Erika recalls starting her physician shadow shift early in the morning with Dr. Jochen Muehlschlegel who is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
was widowed with four young children to support on a teacher’s pension—wrote to her when she learned that BlackRock managed a segment of the New York State Teachers’ Pension Fund. “It said, ‘Dear Anne, please take care of us old teachers. Love, Mom,’” View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and... View Details