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05 Jun 2017
News

Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

how engaged the participants were, with the material and with each other,” says Groysberg. “They bonded immediately and got together with no prompting from us. I don’t recall that happening in any other program. Since the course ended,... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

the country club's rules by going to lunch there with a white colleague. "You could have cut the tension with a knife," recalls Rogers, who was met by his boss when he returned from lunch and told that next time, unfortunately, the club... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

entering the premises for their interview to say that they were going to turn back because this was not a suitable office space,” recalls Agarwala. “One candidate went to the extreme of saying that he could never get married if he worked... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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Foreword | Baker Library

the Radcliffe Institute; Ellen Shea, Head of Research Services; Diana Carey, Reference Librarian, Visual Resources; and Sarah Hutcheon, Research Librarian. We would like to give our sincere thanks to the early graduates of the MBA program who View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

A Growing Drumbeat

professor Bill Sahlman recalls that there were only 4 faculty members devoted to entrepreneurship when he introduced the elective Entrepreneurial Finance in 1985. “Now we have 35. The Entrepreneurial Manager became part of the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Contests

01 Oct 1997
News

Cathy A. Nichols

overtones," Nichols recalls with a hearty laugh. It seems that on her first day at the School, a male student asked her how she could feel good about enrolling at HBS. Wasn't she depriving a man, probably one with a family to support, of... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

very hard...inside! As you may recall from my letter in the October issue of the Bulletin, this year the Board is tackling three important areas of concern to alumni: global alumni issues, information technology, and alumni career... View Details

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

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

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

to educate leaders. After all, actual Chinese leaders send their kids to American universities, and in increasing numbers. But it is worth recalling that in the 1920s and 1930s, China's paramount leader, Chiang Kai-shek, sent his sons to... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

difficult," responded Anthony C. Hooper, president of Bristol-Myers Squibb Intercontinental Region, recalling how last-minute pricing interference by the Chinese government wreaked havoc with the financials he'd been preparing for a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 May 2022
Blog Post

Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

the response was, ‘Well no, no one who has ever fought a pandemic is still alive,’” recalled Kiernan. Which was how he found himself helping configure policies, restrictions, and shutdowns, setting up the country’s first mass testing... View Details

01 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS

very convincing arguments. For me, that moment was a tipping point that I will remember forever. When I was recently talking to him about writing this article, I found it quite interesting that he could not recall that moment. To him,... View Details

09 Apr 2019
News

Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

out of it fine, but that is the lens through which I now look at food allergies.” For Greg, that harrowing experience also recalled a story from decades earlier. He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth when his roommate got a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

02 Mar 2015
News

To Market, To Market

me develop my ‘systems thinking’: understanding, from beginning to end, how a system works and how it can be adapted to perform better. That was the focus,” recalls Ferrari. “It leads to a greater impact, which is of great importance in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

Menlo Park, where the firm relocated in 1992. Reflecting on the early days, he recalls with a smile, “Back then they would sit around a small table and make decisions to invest $200,000 to start Genentech or $500,000 to start Tandem... View Details

02 Dec 2019
News

A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding

of economic development,” recalls Barry of his post-graduation years. He wanted to understand why people in some regions do well economically and improve their standard of living while others do not, and was also interested in exploring... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

Barron recalls one professor chiding him for "studying the hiking trails of Scotland more than anything else." Despite his numerous academic and extracurricular interests, including writing, business came first for Barron, thanks to his... View Details