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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
Named by his MBA section “Most likely to end up in People magazine,” Jeffrey A. Baron did so with a twist. He made People not in the United States but in Brazil, where his second play, Mother’s Day, received widespread acclaim. Baron’s road from working-class New... View Details
- 28 Oct 2010
- News
Root, Root, Root for the Home Team
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
Welcome to NBC
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score (or should I say “SCO-ORE!”), could the Bruins’ remarkable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
"People like to see other people do outlandish things." —Barry Frank (MBA 1957), legendary sports-media dealmaker and producer of Battle of the Network Stars and American Gladiators. (Variety, September 24, 2012) View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
Business and Creativity at elBulli WIZARD: Chef Ferran Adrià at the World Summit of Gastronomy in Tokyo. He’s been called “the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen” for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Jennifer Lee Koss by Maureen Harmon For weeks in 2012, Jennifer Lee Koss (MBA 2008) and Kena Paranjape held early- morning meetings at La Bohème coffee shop in Toronto. The discussion centered on a possible business venture. The meeting spot made sense; it was near... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
Gold Mettle Three years ago, the 2002 Winter Olympics looked like a downhill skier who had taken a really bad fall, tumbling out of control, in danger of serious injury, and with an uncertain future at best. Members of the International Olympic Committee had accepted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Barr Photo courtesy Poetry Foundation In 2002, pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly made a gift in excess of $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association (now the renamed Poetry Foundation). Tapped in February to figure out what to do with the foundation’s windfall was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
For most executives, looking good and being fit are personal and professional goals. But as Richard Bailey (MBA ’81) notes, the business lifestyle, especially travel, often gets in the way. “Combine jet lag with hectic meeting schedules and gyms with weird hours and... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- News
Parks and Re-creation
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details
- 15 Apr 2010
- News
A (Literal) Game Changer
- 07 Sep 2011
- News
Lessons Learned from Skydeck
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Artful Contributions
The director of the High Art Museum in Atlanta regards two HBS graduates as the “twin pillars” of the museum’s recently completed $124 million expansion project. Terry Stent (MBA ’68), chairman of the museum’s board of directors, and his wife, Margaret, have been major... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Christian Bjelland
As president and fourth-generation owner of Chr. Bjelland & Company, an industrial holding company headquartered in Oslo, Christian Bjelland has more than enough challenges to fill any given workday. But over the last decade, Bjelland has devoted himself to an equally... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated children's activities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price from $3.7 million to $26... View Details