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- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
of Indian import policies, and I knew them backwards and forwards,” recalls Mittal, sitting in his office at the New Delhi headquarters of Bharti Enterprises, the multinational conglomerate he has built over the past 40 years. “Phones... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
question was not, ‘Have you done ?’” he recalls with a laugh. “And so we kind of figured it out.” For years, those angling to influence the legislative process were eager to have lawmakers hear directly from their constituents. But doing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
to time." The seeds of Jenrette's passion for historic houses were planted as he grew up in Raleigh during the Depression. In his book, Jenrette recalls seeing the movie Gone with the Wind in 1939, when he was 10: "It came at a time when... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
overheads? I recall that in my day a particularly endearing, if mobility-challenged, professor would repeatedly collide with the overhead projector while executing the complex tango steps inherent to case-method facilitation. No such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
is needed. So how did Houghton, who would become renowned for his inclusive, team-oriented, nice-guy leadership, get everybody’s attention? “I hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Houghton View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
excites me. I love emerging markets.” Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) The Bridgespan Group www.bridgespangroup.org “The idea may have seemed irrational at the time, but I couldn't imagine not doing it,” recalls Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) of his decision... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Steve Belkin suggest that the strongest common threads in their class may be the need for independence and the desire to parlay professional success into something beneficial for the community. "When I started out, undoubtedly, financial success was a strong motivator... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
Gretchen Howard (MBA 2002) came to HBS in part because she had a story in her mind about how her career would start: It was 2000, the apex of the dotcom bubble. She would move to Boston, study business, partner with a technologist from MIT, and build a transformative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
in class," recalls Gary Millspaugh, former executive director of the Allentown (PA) Rescue Mission. Because the program involves much more than case studies, many participants do a lot of work beforehand to gain the most from their SPNM... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden. Recalling that historic event, Mullen praises President Obama and gives the Navy SEALs credit for the success of the operation. “It was a privilege to lead them,” he says, quickly turning... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Goldenberg’s experience. He still recalls lessons from Professor Youngme Moon on discontinuous thinking, from her course on consumer marketing. He also remembers a welcome message from then-Dean Kim B. Clark about being “warmhearted and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
various cultural traditions and the challenges faced when a company from another tradition enters the market. The complexities of such research start with language, she notes, recalling a visit to a Chinese company when even her two... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
the family hotels. After college and working in marketing for Loews, he applied to HBS, never expecting to be admitted. “My first weeks were filled with fear and dread,” Tisch recalls with a laugh. He notes that he has been surprised by... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
(MBA 1969)—to careers in business. “He taught by the case method, and made sure we had real-life experiences,” Lambert says, recalling a field trip to General Motors in Detroit. “Professor Fitzhugh saw business as a way for the black... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
believed his family had ties to Hamas. “He was a normal guy my age,” recalls Hussein. “After chatting for a while about soccer, girls, and food, he told me that his father has been in ‘administrative detention,’ or unacknowledged... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
end of World War II, and life under the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, the Communist Polish United Workers’ Party, had been, as Maj recalls now, “ugly,” but his family had not suffered as many others had. Still, he refused the SB’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
have been fixed by the right words? Has your best employee walked out the door without you ever telling them how much they meant to you? Do you still recall that wonderful thing someone said to you so many years ago? If so, then you know... View Details