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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I am writing this letter on the heels of another wonderful reunion weekend at HBS. If you're like me, a "reunion zealot," you know how special these events are. Not only do reunions give us the chance to reconnect with dear friends, but we are also treated to... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
different way of thinking about things. And then you've got either large GPs who haven't quite created the opportunity for people of color to come and get the experience and be able to develop that skill set so that they can either do something View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
one hundred grocery and department stores. Kohl focused on philanthropic activities after selling the business in 1979 and purchased the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in 1985. Elected to the Senate seat vacated by View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Silent Winds, Dry Seas: A Novel By Vinod Busjeet (DBA 1980) Doubleday In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan was a young boy who had yet to learn the truth behind his family’s fractured history—the result, said his mother, of an alliance between... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
meeting can be boring and repetitive, just sitting at your computer. So the necessary task is to what I call DBB—don't be boring. So you might need to start with playing a high-energy song as people are arriving into the Zoom room. You know, you could play “Happy”... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
also be a bank cashier, postmaster, sheriff, or even another businessperson. Each was known by a number or initials. While no key exists to their identities, it’s believed that Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
reference for anyone committed to understanding, studying, and acting on the challenges facing leaders who are building inclusive organizations. VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas, William J. Abernathy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Far as the Eye Can See: A History of Seeing by Susan M. Denham (MBA 1993) The History Press From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans have repeatedly invented... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
(with varying degrees of success, by his own account). Lately, he’s been trying to scale back. “It’s an evolution that’s felt very normal and comfortable,” says Bemis. “There haven’t been any big differences because I’m a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
of African American artists,” she says. Over time, Joyner’s collecting has evolved to include pieces by mid-career American artists such as Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, and Lorna Simpson. More recently, she has sought out... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Billy from Affton By William S. Thompson (MBA 1970) Bowker Identifier Services The exploits and adventures of Bill Thompson, a neighborhood guy chosen by his peers to lead,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
by the stories she sees at the grassroots level. At a recent visit to Ariel Community Academy, a magnet school in Chicago, she watched kindergarteners learn principles of trading and fifth graders doing analyses of companies. "They were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Alan B. Slifka On a bus in Israel, two seven-year-old boys talk about their interest in sports. One makes a joke, the other laughs. The boys, one Jewish, one Arab, are new friends. They met at a day camp designed to bring two of the world's most strife-ridden groups... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
practices along the way. High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner University of Chicago Press Immigration policy... View Details