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- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
like most, failed. But the experience made him curious about the differences between entrepreneurial winners and losers. Having written a book about West Point, he resolved to turn his attention to “the West... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
just thinking about what was going to happen to that little girl and who was going to take care of her,” says David Kim (MBA 1994), a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point who was also a part of... View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opened in Singapore in June 2015, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) celebrated a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
race—often referred to as “the most exciting two minutes in sports”—was won by Always Dreaming, the favorite at the Preakness. Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) owns 25 percent of that horse, purchased for $1.25 million. As president and CEO of New York–based View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
of black against the gleaming gray. Soon Neil and Buzz would be back inside. They could all go home. In an interview in Popular Science, Collins, now 88, discusses his route to mission, which included a West View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
"Ranger Bolick, you have the heart of a lion, but your body just isn't keeping up. Hang in there; you have what it takes." Scott Bolick will never forget those words. In 1990, fresh out of West Point, he was struggling through the Army's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
"aha moment": She and her husband, Khary Cuffe (MBA 2007), had long wondered how they could improve the world's image of Africa. She realized that purveying to the West a prestige item—of world-class quality and created by black... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)
who—this is when the draft was on—were not always willing to participate. You grow up in a hurry. After having been in combat, everything else seems to be a vacation. When I came to HBS, I had been at West View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
the loss of my father taught me perseverance, independence, and hard work,” he observes. “It prepared me for later challenges.” After a charismatic West Point recruiter visited his high school, Sundy applied... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Jefferson’s résumé confirms that if he’d opted to remain in the private sector, he would be making some serious money based on his leadership skills alone. Case in point: A West Point graduate and Green... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
look ridiculously easy, but it's not. It involves hard work that takes a considerable amount of focus and dedication." HENRY McCANCE Yale University, 1964 B.A., Economics "At HBS, I remember the challenge of analyzing difficult problems, making decisions, and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Solutions Award from the Women and Gender Constituency. “We have assisted nine villages, and three ‘graduated’ at the end of last year by reaching self-sufficiency. That is really the holy grail of the work,” says Ruhr, who visits the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
Massachusetts, recounts how as a student he helped establish the first fellowships for those interested in working for nonprofits. Upon hearing Halperin’s idea, an incredulous student protested, “We’re the West View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
whose campus occupies 26 buildings surrounded by 800 acres of forest on the northern side of an Appalachian mountain ridge. As he walks the grounds, Marietta points to evidence of what a thriving, diversified economy in eastern Kentucky... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terry Finley turns race horses into investment opportunities. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York,... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
On October 18, 1995, U.S. Army Captain Ray Jefferson was excited about his future. The West Point graduate had eagerly accepted challenging assignments commanding Ranger and Green Beret units in the United... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner