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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
strengthened residential life and recognized the growing importance of interdisciplinary faculty research. EX ED’S SPACE RACE In large part, the growing space demands of HBS Executive Education programs drove campus projects in the late... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
Tucker York (MBA 1986) (photo by Chris Taggart) Tucker York (MBA 1986) (photo by Chris Taggart) DONOR: Tucker York (MBA 1986) Goldman Sachs Scholars Fellowship Tucker York (MBA 1986) recalls that, as a student at HBS, he didn’t realize... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Comings and Goings
A snapshot of the MBA Program’s newest recruits reveals that this year’s incoming class — chosen from a pool of 7,140 applicants — represents a select, diverse group of individuals hailing from 67 countries around the world. As the new MBA candidates settled into View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
both in and out of clinical settings, with the goal of trying to understand the patients’ life and relationship with their illness as completely as possible. They go to appointments with them, have coffee, visit their homes, meet their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
own academic difficulties was not lost on him. "If I was one of the better students to come out of the Chicago public schools and I was struggling, what did that mean for the rest of my class?" he asks. Having taken that question to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
Yeo, "is developing human capital, because the country is so small and resource-scarce." A scholarship student at the University of Toronto, Yeo received a degree in industrial engineering in 1970 and then returned home where he earned a... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
Keeping HBS Competitive Mel Tukman (MBA 1966), a longtime supporter of Harvard Business School, recognizes the far-reaching impact of the School’s mission. He is committed to helping HBS continue to attract and cultivate the best minds—from the professors who lead case... View Details
- 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 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
turning point in my life has put me on an unexpected path. I came to HBS as a student after serving in Korea as a missionary for the Mormon Church. That experience had left me eager for a career that would... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Digital Initiative, was how to develop the skills and insight to become a leader in the digital age. Today’s MBA Program has multiple electives designed to help students conceive, lead, and execute digital innovation initiatives and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
safety.” To help prepare students for this work, Edmondson and Assistant Professor Tiona Zuzul teach Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job. The EC course is based on the hypothesis that the results you achieve as a general... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus Richardson are talented individuals who... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
(MBA/MPA-ID 2011), one of IDinsight’s four founders. When they met as graduate students at Harvard, the foursome was drawn together by their passion for making a difference in the world through international development. They were also... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
Tom (MBA 1969) and Patricia Barry It was a given in Tom Barry’s family that, having done well in math and science in high school, he would pursue a degree in a related field as a student at Yale. But during his junior year, the Ohio... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses.” As James Tobin, one of Schumpeter’s best Harvard students and himself a Nobel laureate, later wrote, “I have always thought that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
helpful as I built my own business." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Board of Directors, HBS African-American Alumni Association Board of Visitors, Howard University School of Business Former Director, University of Maryland Foundation, Greater Washington Urban League ADVICE TO... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young