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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
The “A” List
Started in 1995 in Columbus, Ohio, by Angela Hicks (MBA ’00), Angie’s List is a consumer-driven report card on numerous local services (plumbers, car mechanics, and moving companies, not to mention solar panels and Christmas decorating)... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment managers to reload and try again. To recap, just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
venues, such as the House of Lords, National Theatre, Tower Bridge, London Zoo, and Somerset House, for its annual summer and Christmas parties. An annual ball, golf days, and Sunday visits to historic buildings bring members together to... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
recalls a fateful day at home during the Christmas holidays when Bradach came over to finish the final plan. Hours on, after completing their task, Tierney recalls suddenly seeing themselves in the climactic scene in Butch Cassidy and the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
since a bit of tension motivates concerned donors to act. Perhaps the best-known of these drives is the annual Christmas Challenge, which opens on Giving Tuesday and lasts for one week. Last year’s campaign raised £24 million for 900... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
Club of Washington DC and the Danish Business Council for its Annual Holiday Party. The guests enjoyed a vibrant and cozy event filled with Nordic Christmas food and boosted by a live Jazz band. Distinguished guests included diplomats,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(my first), and we enjoy reading it to him, along with the Little Blue Truck. Construction Site on Christmas Night is definitely on our Christmas wish list. —Jeremy Schreiber (MBA 2013) Unacceptable:... View Details
- 09 Jun 2011
- News
The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
variety of venues, from section cocktail parties and informal dances to HBS's Christmas Ball, Wellesley College (sometimes with the Wellesley Widows a cappella group), Connecticut College for Women, Radcliffe, Simmons, and Harvard Law... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
sort of business going - vending sandwiches and popcorn on street corners in Detroit, running a swimming-pool cleaning operation, selling Christmas ornaments, and eventually building and selling dollhouse miniatures in high school. "As a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
cystic fibrosis. “He taught Joey how to shoot his first spitball,” O’Donnell continues. “And every Christmas Eve, he and Natty would show up, and John would have some ungodly-sized Christmas present for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
from 400 miles of vital railroad tracks. One night, Green and several others ventured out to evaluate the situation. On their sortie, they blew up a railroad tunnel, blocking the German troops from 400 miles of vital railroad tracks. It was just before View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
we can think of, on a floppy disk or CD. And by tapping on your computer keyboard and rearranging the order and number of these ones and zeroes, you can send an e-mail, write an English paper, or transmit a photograph.” Enriquez then holds aloft a View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
do all feel home-like to me." "The grand scheme," he relates, "is to go to St. Croix right before Christmas and stay through the middle of March. Then, South Carolina until May, up to Edgewater on the Hudson through the foliage in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
where you’re aiming. That sort of fearlessness and ambition carried David through.” Another lesson occurred further into the company’s history. On the Friday before Christmas in 1990, van Bever and three other top-level managers,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Brooke Shields and the rest of the cast and crew, and Evanson moved the island's clocks ahead one hour to provide additional daylight for filming ("turtle time" has been standard ever since). After the film crew left, Evanson says, "it was a bit like decorating your... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
the love of his life, and eventually three children. He shares his experiences doing business in the Common Market, communist countries, the Middle East and Africa from 1961 to 1980. This book is based on lengthy Christmas letters widely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
like Ryde, founded by Terence Zou (MBA 2009). Zou was inspired to launch the app-based ride- sharing service while Christmas shopping in Singapore’s Orchard Road in 2013. “I could not get a cab, and I saw all these cars going by with just... View Details