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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
for its members. The station organized parties with the radio staffs of Radcliffe, Wellesley, and other nearby women’s colleges and sometimes rebroadcast their programs. During the 1952-53 academic year, the station had a “Wellesley Blind... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
worked as the art and culture critic for the university newspaper. One day in the newspaper office he noticed a small ad inviting students to meet a representative of the HBS admissions office to learn about the School’s MBA program, whereupon he called his mother, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
strong—there’s always the next project, the next deadline. Research by Assistant Professor Anat Keinan may help prevent those feelings of regret. In a study of present-day college students and of alumni returning for their 40th reunion,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
writing finance cases, Brierley also volunteered to help his college fraternity find a vendor to automate its 150,000 membership records. Failing to find a specialist in the membership record-keeping arena, and recognizing an opportunity,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Alto house where he and Cathie have lived since 1967. “Helping our community is important to us.” Johnson was an elected trustee of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District for 12 years. It’s a rare person who can talk about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
View Video Dean Nitin Nohria took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on August 19 in honor of Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) and nominated Harvard President Drew Faust, HBS Professor Bill George, and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana. Baker Library... View Details
Keywords: Georges F. Doriot
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Agent of change
varied path for the Lafayette College chemical engineering major and former process engineer at Proctor & Gamble. "I really enjoy new challenges," says Skovran, who credits HBS with preparing her for the position she has accepted at Bain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
of As the Future Catches You and Evolving Ourselves, presents a lively and engaging guide to ethics in a technological age. Not the Seasons I Expected: A Fan's Memoir by Blant Hurt (MBA 1991) Fairbourne Publishing When it comes to college... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
relaxed way of life. And I was explaining my fascination with this part. So it starts like this. In 1989, a group of American students arrived for a study abroad year at Yunnan University in Kunming, where I was studying. They were from Oberlin View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
financial literacy programs for teachers and students, as well as many other educational opportunities. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” observes Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
about listening to my inner voice and choosing to follow it. In high school, my family and I traveled from Chicago to the East Coast for a whirlwind college tour. Stepping onto the campus at Wellesley View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
but realized after college that such a turnabout was unlikely. “When you’re going blind, there’s plenty of denial. But you’ve ultimately got to get comfortable with it and deal with it.” Today, Gibbons has gone far beyond mere... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
day, a year of global immersion before college will become the norm rather than the exception.” — ABIGAIL FALIK (MBA ’08), founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year. (Christian Science Monitor online, April 11, 2011) View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
the same time expanding the art appreciation of the staff members,” he says. “We have no market for contemporary art by young artists here,” notes Shibayama, who also teaches the business of art at two Japanese universities. “We have around 20,000 art majors graduating... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
family and my community.” Giving back to the community has always been important to the Los Angeles native, who used to mentor high schoolers from minority families in South LA, helping them prepare for the college application process.... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
scholarship promise, affording graduating seniors access to $2,000 for future pursuits as well as an additional $5,000 to finish a four-year college degree. To date, more than 70 students have received an average of $3,300 in scholarship... View Details
Keywords: April White