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- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
MBA Recruiting Twitter feed Some students call it “hell week,” but the serene second floor of the Doubletree Guest Suites in Cambridge reveals none of the angst associated with the job interviews taking... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
After witnessing the civil war that has ravaged his country for almost three decades, an historian makes this observation about the moral decline of the nation: "The ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down and disappeared, and society... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
self-expression, it is also a carefully and thoughtfully organized pop up city of 70,000 people with a $36 million budget. Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) is the woman who controls that budget, serving as Burning Man's treasure. And in this episode of Skydeck, Raiser talks... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Phillips Sawyer Cambridge University Press This book explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term “fair trade” from the late 19th century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
and student jobs, they did. Before moving to Cambridge in 1980, Harris says she harbored the usual expectations of Harvard as a preppy, stuffy place, but found she was one of the few wearing Docksiders and green sweaters. The diversity of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Alan B. Slifka On a bus in Israel, two seven-year-old boys talk about their interest in sports. One makes a joke, the other laughs. The boys, one Jewish, one Arab, are new friends. They met at a day camp designed to bring two of the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Lever Brothers’ Lifebuoy Soap, launched in 1926, warned of the grave personal and business consequences caused by “body odor,” a concept which Lever invented and its products prevented. Hygiene was increasingly associated with beauty. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
raised in a wealthy community in southern New Jersey, Moore spent most summers at his father’s family camp near the lake in the wilderness of central Maine. When his parents divorced—an unusual occurrence in 1920—12-year-old Moore took... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Cambridge shelter for abused women and children. In addition, while working at CSFB, Brown began mentoring and supporting a high-school girl, Mary Sessoms, and continues doing so now that Sessoms is in college. “I’ve received significant... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
by a Belgian diamond cutter and water polo champion named Gérard Blitz, the association was inspired in part by a desire to forget the horrors and privations of World War II. Seeking diversion, Blitz put together extended holidays with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beds in the West Wind dormitory, where Marietta broke ground on a $475,000 renovation project last fall, they’ll burn some calories learning traditional Appalachian folk dances from a teacher who attended day camp at Pine Mountain as a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
of concerned citizens who objected to the noise associated with increased air traffic, the situation was less about confrontation than education. “The director of environmental PR at the Pentagon and his wife came out on a vacation and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
International. Saturday's discussion panels examined four main themes: restructuring and economic reforms, humancapital development, industry adaptation in Asia, and multinational corporations and entrepreneurship. A plenary panel on leadership in Asia's recovery,... View Details