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- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
the holidays. He also recalled how the idea for thredUP came to him at HBS. “The original concept for how to deal with two-sided marketplaces, which is what thredUP is, came from HBS associate professor Andrei Hagiu’s Strategy &... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
young army clerk who gave him a book on the Harvard MBA — Yeo did enroll at HBS and earned his MBA with High Distinction. The MBA has had “great applicability to what I do,” Yeo explained, recalling an example from his days as Trade and... View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
Murrell told the Times. “Would Manet really give all this pictorial space to someone he didn’t want us to pay attention to?” In a press release from Columbia announcing the exhibit, Murrell recalls her first time she viewed the painting... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
He launched FairMarket from his Beacon Hill apartment in 1997. "When we set up our server, I had an engineer in my kitchen doing the programming, and we had a network cable running all over the floor. It was a total bootstrap operation," Randall View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
movie sound tracks from the 1940s and ’50s), gospel music, a duo concert by the She-E-Os and Heard on the Street (HBS’s own student a capella groups), and jazz. Rishi recalls no concert catastrophes more serious than a tenor being delayed... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
taught to be self-reliant, work hard, and accept responsibility for my actions.” He recalls cutting lawns for neighbors as his first job; later, as a college sophomore at Drexel University, he landed a job with IBM through Drexel’s co-op... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
'Who is this guy?'" Gilmartin recalls with a chuckle. His inclusive management style quickly won him fans within the company. "I met with a lot of people and asked two questions: 'What do you think are the major issues we face? And if you... View Details
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Foreword - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
graduates of the MBA program who recalled their experiences as part of the HBS Centennial Celebration in 2008 – Judy L. Allen (MBA 1963); Joan Colligan (MBA 1964); Barbara Hackman Franklin (MBA 1964); and Sara B. Wilkinson (MBA 1960).... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
English. But it needed all synapses firing to fend off the flesh-and-blood HBS team (MIT finished a distant third). Named after IBM patriarch Thomas J. Watson, this Watson is endowed with a canned male voice that recalls the creepy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
seeing my brilliant ideas—which I just knew were right—not work." To that end, Cook said leaders should take care not to squelch a team member's new idea too soon, even if it sounds unreasonable. He recalled scoffing at a proposal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
their wristwatches. “Randal’s energetic ease in his own skin, his masterful storytelling, and his ability to recall everyone’s name also electrified and mystified the crowd,” said Scott Spencer (MBA ’09). “That ability to connect with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Later, however, I realized that the women might not actually be in the military: the varied salutes and the microphones gave it away. I was guessing it was part of the HBS Show, which I was in as a partner to Paul Wylie (MBA 2000). And then I View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
in Paris arranged Trumbull’s interviews with government officials and NGO leaders across the continent. “They were all exhausted,” Trumbull recalls of his interview subjects. “The human weight of the situation was taking a toll on them.”... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Cespedes says the students in the course learn to deal with the reality that “selling is always more about the buyer than it is about the seller.” Recalling his own experience as a young entrepreneur, Roberge elaborates: “Like a lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were created for another age,” he said,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
to make of me or what to do with me,” recalls Lambert, who received an HBS Alumni Achievement Award in 2003. Professors would pass her by in the halls, eyes cast downward. Recruiters seemed more interested in white students. Even at... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
background in school and university, the Times reported. Urged on by one of his brothers — as well as a young army clerk who gave him a book on the Harvard MBA — Yeo did enroll at HBS and earned his MBA with High Distinction. The MBA has had “great applicability to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
recalls his first major pitch, made before no less than VC legend John Doerr (MBA ’76) and partners at Kleiner Perkins. In a scene guaranteed to produce an empathetic sweat, the author relates his fear while being peppered by “killer... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
imported guitars from Japan. Recalling his decision to buy the company, Juszkiewicz explains, "Gibson had such a storied association with this country's emerging musical genres and with pathbreaking artists such as Maybelle Carter in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons