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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
smile talks about her experience tutoring a single mother on welfare as a volunteer in Boston City Hospital's Adult Literacy Program. "This woman was smart, motivated, and capable," recalls Hubert, who met with her student twice a week,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
had been closed to the outside world for nearly 30 years. “That trip changed how I thought about things,” recalls McFarlan, who estimates that he’s traveled to China 70 times since then. His most recent foray was in June, when he led a... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
the groundwork for the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative a decade later. Matthew Caulfield (MBA ’72) of Oceanside, California, arrived on campus as an experienced Marine officer fresh from Vietnam. While some of his classmates had been leaders in the antiwar... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
recalls Fung, who had planned, like most of his classmates, to work in the United States. So it was with some reluctance in July 1972, with the ink barely dry on his diploma, that Fung answered a call from his mother to return to Hong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Professor Austin nostalgically recalled a journey he had made 34 years before, returning from Peace Corps service in Chile to study at HBS. "When the plane took off, it flew over the Andes," Austin told conference attendees. "It was early... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
by Maureen Harmon Blaine Favel Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) grew up on Cree Indian reservation. His father was a chief, as was his grandfather before him. "It was a true democracy back then," says Favel, when a chief served at the will of the people. Favel View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
he has reflected upon considerably since September 11. Recalling his grandfather's legacy as a Navy chief petty officer and World War II submarine veteran honored for valor and bravery, Sanchez concludes, “He did what I want to do with my... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, Andrew Tisch never had to seek out part-time jobs. Employment opportunities were everywhere in the family business, a chain of hotels in New Jersey, Florida, and New York City. “I started before I was a teenager,” Tisch View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
employees, too. During the first summer, the embeds quickly discovered the crux of the transparency problem, which Bernstein recalls in his paper The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
recalls Quattrone telling an analyst who wanted to issue a less than flattering report about a client. `Do you want to work in this firm? Do you want to be a team player? When it comes time for bonus review, all this will be remembered.'... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
learned that the course had nothing to do with manufacturing, it had to do with a way of life,” recalled David Arnold, MBA 1947, who went on to work for Doriot at ARD. “He made you think.” Doriot lectured his aspiring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
buying to operations management, for nearly nine years. She finally felt like the biggest challenges were behind the company. The year 2020 was going to be stable, she recalls thinking. But by late 2019, it was clear that would not be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
implications.” It’s important to build up reserves of trust with customers and markets to call on in hard times, he added, and don’t try to start the process when times are already difficult. Dubinsky recalled her media ride on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
diagnosed, also has the disease. Crowley, who is a director at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, New Jersey, recalls how he learned that his children were sick. "When Megan was around five months old, we sensed that her strength wasn't... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her senior year of high school. She recalls being one of about 80 women in a class of 800—and one with the least amount of work experience. "I had worked summers at an ad agency writing copy for Columbia Pictures. I made up a lot of corny... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511075-PDF-ENG On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010 Clayton Rose, Sandra J. Sucher, Rachel Gordon, and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 311-029 :... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How HBS Prepared Me to Lead a Company on Day One
You Learn Long-Term Leadership Strategy I loved the HBS classroom experience, but I recall initially doubting the power of the case method style of learning. Surely you can just teach us accounting rules without debating! I was like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
give students an understanding about the political, economic, and business dynamics in Africa,” recalls Belo-Osagie. However, a semester-long course would be challenging for both because of their busy schedules. But when HBS introduced... 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