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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Small loans, big impact: “I’ve seen firsthand the impact that a $50 loan can have on a mother in Ecuador. It helps provide the circumstances for these women to become the backbone of society.” Aha moment: “I left my last corporate job when I was 39, and it just came to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to vet them if you’re thinking of getting on a board—is how do they work? Now my very first board was an eye opener and it was a very good experience with a good team around it, but it wasn’t in the modern age, shall I say. It got there. [MUSIC] JH: Barron is currently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
MBA classroom, says MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer Scott Snook, a retired Army colonel and HBS graduate, who serves as an unofficial advisor to veteran and active-duty students. “The level of responsibility and opportunity to lead very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
a week, limiting a team's revenue from Japanese firms. Contrast that with recently retired Hideki Matsui, who could play every game, patrolling the Yankee Stadium outfield with ads for Japanese companies on the wall behind him—visible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
no legal requirement that he pay back the money. There was, however, a “moral loan” that he felt obliged to repay because the School had such a positive influence on his life. Dunphy, the retired head of Sealed Air Corporation who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
encouraging participation. Teo, who recently started his own consulting firm, Croda Resources and Associates, shows no signs of retiring from alumni activity anytime soon. “I enjoy it so much that I will continue on as vice president,” he... View Details
- 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
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
choice. The audience included retiring CEOs and board members wondering how to give advice in this market, people in mid-career transitions, and recent MBA grads trying to figure out next steps." Kwok says the discussion and subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
focused on attempting to connect federal government appropriation accounting to the internal management systems of the various agencies. Of course, the Congress would have none of it! Even in retirement and though unable to see, Bob... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
delivered 33,100 calls to Capitol Hill—that’s 600 or more constituent calls to every targeted member’s office. Razom lobbyists also used one-on-one meetings to address members’ specific concerns, while television ads aimed to move public opinion. 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
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
overlapping board work and corporate partnerships. “If I wasn’t the first person to call, I was darn close,” he says. “I asked her what she was going to do.” “I told Jeffrey I was going to retire and think about what else to do,” Whitman... 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 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
recent bout of bad news (coming after the minivan and SUV successes of the 1990s had temporarily eased the woes of the 1980s) has been ascribed to some or all of the following: excessive corporate bureaucracy, arrogance, and insularity; union obstinacy; exorbitant... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
jungle for four or five days. Kaziranga National Park is a favorite. It’s been one of India’s great success stories for rhino conservation.” Back to top Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic, Inc. Family ties: “My... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso