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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tales, author and retired group vice president of General Motors John Smith tells the story of how he and his team sprouted new life and purpose into the storied Cadillac―once the quintessential expression of accomplishment and success in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Darden worked for nearly 25 years before retiring in 2008. His service to HBS continued in the form of two, three-year terms (1995–2000) as a member of the School’s Visiting Committee. As the first African American woman to graduate from... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
and landscaping. Donham’s blueprint followed the arc of the river, which subsequent architects have maintained.” Along with his imprint on the School’s campus and pedagogy, Donham’s personal influence can still be felt at HBS. After his 1942 View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
see,” says Dan Napoli, a retired Merrill partner. Bloomberg LP has grown into a global company with nearly 20,000 employees in 120 countries and is the primary source of information for the global financial system. By all accounts,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
By Beth Stewart (MBA 1982), CEO Trewstar Corporate Board Services and Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973), retired CEO, Catalyst and senior advisor to Trewstar We take as given that modern, well-run boards recognize myriad reasons to include diverse... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
the Latin American perspective and, through networking, facilitates its development. Both groups are very important to us. What drew you to this job? For some time, I've been planning an early retirement from business so that I could get... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
retiring as a commander in 2013. Vescovo had already earned a place in the annals of exploration. When he reached the peak of Everest in 2010, he became one of just a few hundred people to have climbed all Seven Summits, the tallest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
advice and counsel on a regular basis. She has led this board admirably, and we are all extremely grateful. Thank you to the board members who are retiring this year. I am deeply thankful for their energy, imagination, and support. My... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
personally, too. As he began to dig into the research, the conclusions were unambiguous: “I needed to retire and dedicate myself to sharing knowledge,” recalls Brooks, who left AEI in 2019. Courtesy Arthur Brooks At HBS, he teaches the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
and dear to my heart.” Central to HCZ’s approach is a birth-to-college education pipeline of best-practice academic, community development, and health and wellness programs that serve 13,000 children and nearly as many adults. Recently View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
of academic research programs and initiatives. For example, we launched an open and global "ideas challenge" to generate research topics around type 1 diabetes, with $30,000 in awards. Winning ideas came from diverse actors, including an earth scientist, a college... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
and a place that valued the environment, he says. “And frankly, it used to be the best place in the world to live or work or retire or come for holidays. So I set my ambitions very high.” Mitsotakis is confident that capital won’t be the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
numbers. As individuals spoke in class, players “filled in” their boxes. When someone got “Bingo,” the rule was for them to get called on and say the secret phrase. A historic episode of Turkey Bingo that featured the secret phrase “Family Fruit” resulted in the View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Johnson to a position as the nation's dominant health-care brand-a $9 billion empire comprised of the main operating company and some 150 wholly owned subsidiaries. In addition, J&Jwas regularly rated as one of the most admired and worker-friendly companies in the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
displayed only in a museum. So, a few years after his retirement from Caldic in 2006, on the site of a historic country estate surrounded by 100 acres of forests, meadows, and sand dunes on the Netherlands’ west coast, he built one.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
first published in 1985, became a bestseller that went through 13 US editions. Eager for a second act, Clifford retired from McKinsey in 1984 at age 51 and started his own consulting firm, Threshold Management. He also joined HBS... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli