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08 Mar 2019
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A Passionate Patron and Collector

a home in Wharton, Texas. The article also notes that Van Lee will soon be honored by the Theater Development Fund for his dedicated support of the arts. The interview portion of the article asks Van Lee about his educational background,... View Details

21 Nov 2017
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Start Your Engines

to build on as Formula One’s relatively new chairman and CEO. Liberty Media bought F1 from the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an $8 billion deal finalized in January 2017. Carey joined as CEO soon after. In an interview with... View Details

Keywords: Racing; Formula One

08 Mar 2017
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Helping vets become resident landlords

after finding the vets and educating them to the opportunity that they have this no-money-down, resident-landlordship opportunity. “We have 350 vets in the pipeline. We have nine prequalified to buy property. And we have six actively shopping, and we’re in 35 states.”... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services

ACS provides, Gardella (email: rgardella@hbs.edu) hopes to "add value to every alumni interaction" through services that help job-seekers sharpen résumés, improve interview skills, and conduct research on firms and careers. "My goal," he... View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

and interviewed with several firms. But she encountered a politely impenetrable wall that was common at the time: "They all said that they had no women partners and didn't anticipate ever having any," she reports. "We'd see that change... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

31 Jul 2016
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You Rang?

(Courtesy of Hello Alfred) (Courtesy of Hello Alfred) Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck (both MBA 2015) met as students at HBS. They knew they wanted to start a business, but worried about the difficulty of balancing their work and personal lives. So they View Details

08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

who were in attendance. "They shared a bit about themselves and we all got to interview and joke with them, and welcome them," says Pérez-Riera. "The HBSLAA wants to promote Latinos, first to go to HBS, and then to get into the C-suite... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

(1970). In a 1988 interview in Manager magazine, Andresen said that his business philosophy was based on "diligence, toughness, and honesty" toward himself and others. "You have to have the ability to constantly criticize and evaluate... View Details

31 Aug 2016
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Managing McDonald’s Makeover

Easterbrook is showing his desire to bring fresh blood into a company that traditionally has promoted almost solely from within. Easterbrook, though, praised Kempczinski’s immediate impact: "Mike has done a great job to get this business back on track," CEO Steve... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

13 Nov 2020
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Students craft their post-HBS lives

workshop—students bring their spouses or partners to class to work on how to have effective relationships. Crafting Your Life employs self-assessments, written exercises, workshops, and a simulation all developed specially for the course. Many of the alumni who were... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Inside MBA Admissions

The managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid since June 2001, Brit K. Dewey (MBA 1996) and her Admissions team have achieved the seemingly contradictory feat of making the admissions process both more personal and more technology-driven. On the personal... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Dec 2017
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Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead

Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) is the former president and CEO of Catalyst, where she worked to promote women in leadership in business and beyond. In this interview she talks about finding and creating opportunities for growth and leadership. “I... View Details

03 Nov 2020
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One Paramount Priority

In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research

more data, faster and cheaper, so that we can make better decisions in real time, micro-targeted to a consumer or a patient,” he explains. For her multiyear study, Raffaella Sadun, the Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration, View Details

08 Aug 2019
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Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site

wrote Prince. “Even if 8chan may not have violated the letter of the law in refusing to moderate their hate-filled community, they have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit." In an interview in the New York Times,... View Details

19 Sep 2016
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Sustainable Farming in the Arid World

Philipp Saumweber (MBA 2006) started Sundrop Farms to bring sustainable horticulture to the arid world, growing high-value crops using seawater and sunlight and bringing jobs to communities that previously had no agriculture sector. In this View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Feedback

June 2016 (Cover illustration by Victo Ngai) Our new podcast Not everything we learn as we’re assembling the Bulletin makes it into print. Our alumni interview subjects often have more to say—additional perspectives or personal... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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@Soldiers Field

tapped HBS to host its “Create” stage. Among the speakers on idea generation and execution: Dean Nitin Nohria, Hamilton star Okieriete Onaodowan, and actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba, who was interviewed by Professor Youngme Moon. View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China

transformation without seeing it with one’s own eyes,” Isenberg added. “The physical, economic, and social immensity of the change is impressive.” For more about the trip, read an interview with Isenberg in HBS Working Knowledge:... View Details