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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
offer, but Moret knew that Virginia could make a strong case. Both his own career and the planning he had undertaken in the early months of his tenure were perfectly aligned with this unexpected opportunity.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on them for the rest of their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their perfect career? MORE Polli matches characteristics to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Business School's commitment to international business education has expanded. When Dean Kim B. Clark announced plans last fall for the opening of an HBS research facility in Hong Kong, he underscored the importance of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
constructive dialogue between environmentalists and the rest of society. His own career path could have been a case study for the book. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tercek spent 21 years as an investment banker at... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
Before she became a comedy writer, Claire Friedman (MBA 2014) followed the path of any good econ major, working at Goldman Sachs for five years and enrolling at HBS with plans to go into the business side of entertainment. While working... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
The period before the Great Depression saw the rise of economic forecasters, pioneers who used the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. Friedman, director of HBS’s Business History Initiative, chronicles the lives and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBAs Reveal Their Hopes and Dreams
Want to know what makes HBS students tick? Try reading the short essays 34 from the Class of 2011 wrote in response to the simple question: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Each essay is paired with the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
breakfast, so the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting had been canceled, and Lhota was planning on catching up on some paperwork. He sat in the quiet of his first-floor office, whose tall, west-facing windows looked out on the morning's golden... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying and enjoyable for me at this stage of my life." When... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
I pitched a business plan of basically the LEGO Universe and how we're going to expand this universe. And so my pitch was basically that we had the team movie in the first movie with LEGO one. So that's my Avengers, so to speak. And then... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
started her career at Bain and then spent a decade building Dalberg, a strategic advisory firm, from a team of seven people to more than 30 offices globally. From 2012 to 2017 she served as senior development advisor to the Secretary of... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
At that point, Rogers recounts with a smile, the Kraft lawyer “got very reasonable.” On the spot, he offered to let Dreyer’s use its name in thirteen western states, a compromise that Rogers readily accepted. At the time, he had no plans... View Details