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- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
retiring for the evening. On a trip to Southeast Asia, my husband Michael and I discovered an exotic blend that the locals suggested we use as a bug spray. It was all-natural and smelled more like a perfume than bug spray. We used the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
anything, this has highlighted the need for information - the lingering notion that you could buy a stock, hold it, then retire without any monitoring or involvement on your part has completely vanished." It's difficult to imagine a more... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
the 2008 financial crisis, it became clear that the organization’s revenue would be in decline. In response, NYPL reduced its head count from around 2,400 people to 1,750 over the course of five years, without any layoffs, through attrition and View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less may result in less business,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
business world and academia had a distinct advantage. He went back to the Pentagon to try to change the way the military engaged with civilians, then to serve at the White House. In 2007, he retired as an Air Force Deputy Assistant... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cash By Christopher Kawaja (MBA 2004) and Shannon Matthiesen Independently published Most of us know how to balance the immediate needs of a checking account or to invest long term for our retirement plans. But financial advice falls... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Darden worked for nearly 25 years before retiring in 2008. His service to HBS continued in the form of two, three-year terms (1995–2000) as a member of the School’s Visiting Committee. As the first African American woman to graduate from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
father was a commercial fisherman before retiring to manage his mother’s neighborhood tavern. “My parents were focused on education,” she recalls, “so the Catholic high school I attended, Bishop Kenny, was the aspiration in Jacksonville.”... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
overlapping board work and corporate partnerships. “If I wasn’t the first person to call, I was darn close,” he says. “I asked her what she was going to do.” “I told Jeffrey I was going to retire and think about what else to do,” Whitman... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
jungle for four or five days. Kaziranga National Park is a favorite. It’s been one of India’s great success stories for rhino conservation.” Back to top Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic, Inc. Family ties: “My... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
amount they paid for newspapers to 25¢ a 100, I retired from the business. I returned to the Business School as a student in 1962. Of course, Harvard Way Extension was long gone by then. So it was a real thrill to see the picture in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
the practice of business. This is a rare blend of characteristics, and competition for outstanding faculty is growing. Moreover, an entire generation of faculty who helped shape the School over the last half-century have retired or will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they’re different,” says Lang, now a Catalyst Honorary Director since retiring as president and CEO. But why? “In Hebrew school, I was told that because I was a girl I could not be a leader. I think I became a feminist when I was about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
half that of other small jets. Air-taxi proponents believe those economies will open up private-jet travel to a broader base of business and pleasure fliers. Photos Courtesy Linear Air Blink was committed to delivering the finest operation team in business aviation,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
linebacker and serving for three consecutive years as special-teams captain, including at Super Bowl XL in 2006 (a 21-10 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers), Kacyvenski retired from the league in 2008 following brief stints with the Rams and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted... View Details