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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
The facility’s new, south-facing entrance also acknowledged the increasingly southern orientation of the HBS campus that is a hallmark of the new campus master plan. View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Heinz Co., and will leave those posts early next year, the newspaper notes. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett noted that Britt Cool spent much of her time at Berkshire aiding struggling companies, including Benjamin Moore & Co. and View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Promoting social enterprise in business
Aurora Rotes Casanova (MBA 2009) is helping promote more socially oriented projects inside companies and calculating their value. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
today’s students do the same. Supporting People and Programs Barry notes that when he was at the School, there were few students from abroad and only a handful of globally oriented cases discussed, whereas now the numbers for both have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
orientation to general management that is applicable in all situations — speaks to all students regardless of their near-term aspirations. The judges were also interested to see how entrepreneurship was integrated into some other key HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
New Horizons
The Harvard Center Shanghai occupies the entire fifth floor of the HSBC Tower, right of center. The building is a recent addition to the panoramic Pudong district skyline, noted for the futuristic architectural flourishes of signature structures like the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- News
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992) Suzanne Battit will never forget her first week at Harvard Business School. She loved Orientation and felt particularly lucky to be a member of section D. “Classmates nicknamed us ‘the love section,’ because... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
of whom he was one). Hughes also ran two student orientations for members of the Class of 1998 (one last fall and one in January) - complex, time-consuming, and largely thankless projects. Expanding View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six months, I decided I'd rather manage, so I shifted my View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
every case through that lens." O'Neill also became involved in the School's mentoring program with the Taft Middle School, and as General Academic Council representative for his section, he was a driving force in reshaping the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
gradually became clear that the contest needed a different set of criteria for evaluating plans with socially oriented agendas. Entries in the new track will submit to the same timetable and demands as traditional plans but will compete... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
engineering orientation into business. How do you explain Starbucks' success? In the past, coffee was treated as a commodity, with quality secondary to cost. So when we offered a terrific product in an appealing environment, with all the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. One of society’s most vexing problems is the relentlessly short-term orientation that manifests itself in... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
school was founded by a native of Uganda—and named after his current Massachusetts hometown—to educate AIDS orphans. Oriental rugs Brighton, Mass. Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center “For their clients,” says Gogan, “rolling out... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
locations of natural phenomena such as mountains and rivers, there are lucky and unlucky places and orientations for buildings; there are auspicious and inauspicious locations for rooms; there are even right and wrong places for objects... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
market-driven and competitive. Explaining the cultural consistency among high-performing companies throughout the world, Deshpandé observes, "Assigning top priority to innovation and customer orientation really does pay dividends. It is... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
create their own personal leadership development plan centered on five key areas: knowing your authentic self, orienting your moral compass, understanding your motivations, building your support team, and staying grounded by integrating... View Details