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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
(De Agostini/Getty Images) (De Agostini/Getty Images) Former Research in Motion CEO and Chairman Jim Balsillie’s (MBA 1989) post-Blackberry career has been spent as far from a boardroom as imaginable. Cofounder of the Arctic Research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Strength In Numbers: Andrew Rosenthal, Jess Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, a student-led group with the goal of increasing the number of successful new businesses launched from HBS. Related Links The Best-Laid... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
drought, the Great Depression, and a world war. He learned to work hard and thirsted for an education. Melvin married and fathered 12 children. His business careers led to his owning his own businesses, which thrived in small-town America... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
a penchant for business and served as vice president and a board member of Harvard Student Agencies, a $2 million, student-run company. “I’ve always been interested in how enterprises are organized,” says Akinola, who is open, friendly, and intensely focused. A View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
Ernst & Young then drew her back to the East Coast. After spending three years in the Real Estate Audit Group at EY, Hawthorne decided to go to business school in order to prepare for her next career step. “I knew that I wanted to work in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
a normal conversation." In addition to counseling Sanders on how to proceed with his planned career in the investment management industry, Welch offered a sneak preview of his new autobiography, Jack:... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
and the Management of Organizations (CCMO) course at HBS. They also highlight the interdisciplinary nature of O&M, covering its four interrelated areas: the nature of human beings and their behavior; compensation, career systems, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
equipped to solve the problem. It has spurred “Commonwealth Connect,” utilized in more than 40 communities statewide and has become a model for citizen engagement around the world. “The innovation Chris has injected into City Hall in his View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that just crunching numbers wasn’t... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
outcome.” As an accomplished sailor, what parallels, if any, do you see between sailing and your career? “I think athletics always have close parallels to business. Some examples I have noticed throughout my (very short) career include:... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
Tony Klemmer Photo courtesy of NAATE Plans for a second career took an abrupt turn in just one day for Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) when, after a quarter century of successful startup launches, he left the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
thorough understanding of the problem and a surgical plan to address it. Your job is to execute that plan with as little variation as possible. The ‘same way, every time’ is the mantra of the surgeon. Once... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
industrial planning in Europe, sparking a lifelong interest in large-scale planning across multiple sectors. In the 1960s and 1970s, as the McArthurs raised their two daughters, John taught corporate finance... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
had a long career in sports management, including an earlier stint running the business side of the Knicks, the WNBA's Liberty and the NHL's Rangers as the president of Madison Square Garden sports. But as inherent as competition is to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
total income. There’s also a halo effect: Anyone who uses the booth to, say, make a bank deposit might also remember to pick up shampoo or soap from her store. Reyes’s booth is one of about 600 installed in mom-and-pop stores in Mexico City; the company View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
At a special reception in New York City in early March, a distinguished group of friends, relatives, and admirers of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33) gathered at the home of Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57) to consider plans for the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design and accelerate policies and plans that help all young people,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
at Harvard in the second month of a yearlong program. They are drawing on the University’s academic environment to plan and prepare for field-based initiatives they will launch to confront global and local problems in areas such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
as head of the provincial conservation office—“the fish and wildlife police, basically,” he says. He was in his early 50s and in his 15th year of government work. His career was in stasis, and by 2002, he didn’t necessarily care if it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous