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- 01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
investors, Buffett observed, is to find companies, preferably undervalued, that will maintain that edge over the long term. Successful investing, he concluded, is not "a game of IQ, it's a game of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
sculptural art, responsive technology, audio, video, and performance—all of which makes more sense when you see it. Meow Wolf is releasing an app next year that will add to the functionality of the in-person experience, with inspiration from the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Insider Knowledge
19fa3d517837d2a3a5724cd478d6306e Omari Bouknight (HBS ’04) turned his experience gaining admission to business school into his first book Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top Business Schools (Career Press). He... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
envisioned in my book. These tools will be game changers in the post-pandemic economy.” Yet technology can come with a “dark side.” In her HBS classroom, Mills challenges MBA students to consider the responsibilities of business leaders... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
O’Neal says he sometimes finds time to “play a bad game of golf.” He is a member of the HBS Visiting Committee and sits on the boards of the Ronald McDonald House, the National Urban League, and Nasdaq. Recently, he also joined an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
(including recent winners of the wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon who raced to victory in special chairs fabri_cated by an Invacare subsidiary), arranging for them to visit with children with disabilities in schools and hospitals. And it has long been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Do You Feel Lucky?
Maryland Lottery and Gaming Director Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979) fields questions on why the jackpot is so big, changes in the lottery world, and what you should do if you’re the one holding the lucky ticket. Watch here:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
the Super Bowl ad game is big business, and therefore very instructive for the 70 MBA students in his marketing classes, who review and grade the ads. “An ad need not be entertaining to be effective,” he explains, “but it does need these... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
the game.” As a student at MIT, Kundu took time out to volunteer as a science teacher in rural India. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s had in his business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, by Randy Komisar, details how one Silicon Valley insider has blazed a path of professional -- and personal -- success by playing the game by his own rules. The book... 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 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reversible moves to deepen their understanding of the unfolding game being played, and to build capabilities. They accept ambiguity and some apparent failures in exchange for improved learning and market position. Imperfectionists succeed... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
like the color blue. Could insiders to corporate America not even recognize the invisible obstacles that outsiders face? What would happen if we named the unspoken rules and gave everyone the tools to play the game and play it well? View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
Politics can be a thankless game — to the victor go the spoils, but so too the headaches. Consider the case of Steve Laffey (MBA 1986), the newly elected Republican mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Last November, three days after winning... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL Re: Can the NFL win the long game? It is a game for only certain types of individuals, physically and mentally tough, coached up and properly conditioned in season and off season. There is no finer... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A business career comes full circle
including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Band of Brothers, and Game of Thrones. In 2013, McGee returned to HBS to become a senior lecturer in business administration. “The opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and deliver merchandise to human packers. “We’re changing the... View Details