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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
A few years after he retired as Dean we hosted a breakfast for him in New York City. It was probably 1997. He told a story about supporting a friend in need by traveling via car nearly eight hours on a Friday night to see him. The story... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
of editor in 1955, around the time Dean David retired and was replaced by Dean Stanley F. Teele. Fenn's style favored bold headlines, dramatic photography, and lively alumni profiles. He was not afraid to tackle controversial topics. An... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after World... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen Grossman View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they’re different,” says Lang, now a Catalyst Honorary Director since retiring as president and CEO. But why? “In Hebrew school, I was told that because I was a girl I could not be a leader. I think I became a feminist when I was about... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Virts (GMP 11, 2011) Retired NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander The first book I read in kindergarten was about the Apollo astronauts who went to the moon, and I was hooked. Growing up, I had posters of airplanes and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
a coxswain, a sculler, and a high school coach. The truth is that almost everyone who has rowed has their own boys-in-the-boat story. That’s part of the beauty of the sport. —Bill Becklean (MBA 1968) has coached the boys’ crew team at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
in which alumni reconnect with the School and its intellectual capital. The spring meeting of the Board is always a bittersweet one. We review the year and celebrate our successes, and we also salute the retiring Board members who have... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
crazy at school, there was a studio in Somerville [Massachusetts] I would go to and spend two or three hours throwing pottery. It’s been a form of relaxation for me for 50 years. I’m retired now, so I have a lot more time to devote to it.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
he was simply “a student of teaching,” adding, “We really know so very little about the teaching-learning process.” Although Christensen retired in 1990, as an emeritus professor he continued to write, teach, and serve as case-method... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
feature keynote speaker Simon Mainwaring, as well as the opportunity to participate in highly interactive workshops and spend some time networking. For details, visit the HBSAB website here. CEO Series to Feature Fireside Chat with Pixar’s Ed Catmull Ed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
out of HBS, after graduating as one of a handful of women, Cohen managed the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds. In 1989, she was selected as senior financial officer for the National Trust for Historic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual financial secretary before his... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
aware of it, the more likely it is they can talk about it openly and can make efforts to overcome it,” she says. In 1999, The Diana Project, cofounded by retired MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Myra Hart to study women... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the... 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
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded... View Details