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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
months pregnant with her second child, Clara, and delivering a speech to hundreds of Disney executives in Frankfurt - she recalls thinking, "This is ridiculous!" Dodi explains, "More than anything, it was the travel that became impossible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
about patient-focused changes, the work can be deeply fulfilling. Dallis Howard-Crow, Emory’s chief human resources officer, would sometimes accompany her father, a hospital CEO, as he walked around the building and greeted everyone from custodians to vice presidents.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that Che Guevara was trying to export his revolution a few miles... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentist,” he recalls thinking, “but the process is not working.” Singh, who spent his formative years in Canada and his adulthood in the United States, had recently moved back to his native India so that his children could be raised among... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
had invested in was struggling, Hawes's sense of obligation to his investors took him and his family to Tampa to work with the failing enterprise. "It took us a year and a half," he recalled with characteristic enthusiasm, "but we fixed... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
figures of Dominican bachata. “I loved Latin music. I loved Cuban music especially, but I had never heard traditional Dominican music,” recalls de Menil, whose own background is French and American. “When I heard the way that Edilio... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
chocolate and a pack of Camels,” the airman recalled gratefully. For his new mission in Slovakia, Green requisitioned more candy and cigarettes—and thousands and thousands of guns. Banská Bystrica had become the capital of the Slovak... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Illustration by Decue Wu HBS professor Deepak Malhotra recalls the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a tragedy that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six staff members... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
the pinstriped, power-brokering world of Wall Street. “I never took it as an insult.” Seated in a conference room with an expansive view of the Hudson River, O’Neal recalls that work was hard to come by in Wedowee, population 750, and the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
growing up in Bern, Switzerland, centered around a daily occurrence that is almost unimaginable in today's world: "You always came home for lunch," he says, recalling that the family would sit down to eat and listen to the news on the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
application to HBS in a tent in Chu Lai, South Vietnam," he recalls with a smile. Mixon's experiences in the military and in business have made him acutely aware of the importance of leadership in every endeavor. "Leadership is the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
recent past. Even when the supply faltered, the demand never went away. And in the year that was just ending, Sahlman had taught first-year Finance to some 180 students—two sections of 90—who had rated him highly as a teacher. This wasn’t always the case. “Let’s get... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sustainability at Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), managing director of Inherent Group; Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), president of CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), director of distributed energy ventures at National Grid. Lassiter kicked off the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
plane smashes into the ship. Come in too high, and its tailhook misses the arresting wires needed to bring the aircraft to a screeching halt. Baldwin, who counts a Navy Commendation Medal for heroic achievement among his many honors, View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
been to Tijuana for four hours. That was the extent of my international experience,” recalls Tierney, who was ready to explore the world and agreed to join the company as a field engineer in Algeria. Working overseas was a tremendous... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
"MD Anderson was an exciting discovery, because it was a real-world example of the IPU concept at work in a top-rated, cancer-focused hospital," recalls Porter, who cowrote an HBS case on MD Anderson with Sachin Jain (MBA 2007/MD 2008).... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
candor and passion during his March appearance at HBS. In light of the recent violence between Israelis and Palestinians, he was clearly dismayed to recall how close the two sides had come to reaching a comprehensive accord in December... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
investing. As a student at HBS, Cohen was fascinated and troubled by the thesis of a best-selling book, The American Challenge, that warned of American cultural, technological, and economic domination of Europe. “My feeling was that entrepreneurship was not just a U.S.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Professor of Business Administration until 1948, pursuing his long-held scholarly interest in human relations in business and mentoring a new generation of faculty. Linda A. Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the... View Details