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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
the first in a long series of “what ifs” that would shape Puck’s career. The next morning, Puck did indeed return. The furious cook demanded that he leave, but the owner intervened, sending the young man to work at a sister establishment. Puck never looked back. By... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
challenge leadership as we know it today. We have coined the phrase generational diversity to distinguish the complexity that's surfacing right now in the workplace. By 2027, people of color ages 18 to 29—and that's your gen Z and young... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Academy of International Business and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Stobaugh started his education in a two-room schoolhouse in a small Arkansas town, later entering Louisiana State University at age fifteen and earning a... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
hardest assignments. He drafted plans to institute new military regulations, to reform the inspector general's office, and—most remarkably—to reorganize the entire army . Despite his emotional insecurities, he had total confidence in his own abilities and seemed able... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
to 18 million added each year, and we have perhaps 40 percent of our population under the age of 20. Therefore, we have the responsibility of educating, feeding, and finally finding jobs for the new entrants on the market.” View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Farm Boy
150-acre commercial farm, named Oakholm, in nearby Brookfield. At age 91, he has just completed a memoir, Making Hay, which is about his childhood and life on the farm. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette (September 16, 2008) said the book... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
on how people can reorient the second half of their lives for optimal happiness. Does this idea play less with students because they first have to chase that success to understand its limits? Or are they ready at an earlier age to define... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
they care and that they’re looking for answers too. “So is it like, our age subgroup that has, like, the majority of overdose problems?” one girl asks tentatively. No, says Langford—but many start using as teens. They go to rehab and then... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began his Goldman career at View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Gordon Celebrates a Century
Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) On July 21, Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) celebrated his 100th birthday with a group of about thirty family members and friends at Fishers Island, New York. In honor of the day and as a tribute to Gordon, a lifelong athlete who ran his first... View Details
- 22 Jul 2016
- News
Let’s Talk Dating
(Tinder) (Tinder) As CEO of Tinder India, Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015) is at the center of a cultural shift: In a country where arranged marriage is still the norm, more and more young people are connecting outside of family-approved channels. “In urban India, single people... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
ages 5 to 12, it intends to expand to a full K-12 curriculum for its research-based education model. “We want to create something that has to push the envelope, and then share that with the rest of the world,” Khan told NPR. “I never... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
nascent days in the 1970s. At its peak in the 1980s, Massachusetts-based Wang Laboratories had 23,000 employees and earned annual revenues of $2 billion. Dr. Wang died in 1990 at the age of 70. View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
allows us to remove all of the emotion and then we can tap into our intuition. Because at the end of the day, you'll never have perfect data. You just can't. And so even in the age of big data, I would argue we have way too much data. But... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?
Summers as a potential 2019 challenger to current mayor Rahm Emanuel or a contender for the Illinois governorship. Summers, who aspired from a young age to be an investment banker and worked at Goldman Sachs before joining the public... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
Analisa Balares (MBA 2005) was born into a poor family, but her life path crossed different strata of Philippine society, from the ultra-wealthy to the urban poor. A student leader from the age of 13, she represented her high school at... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
One of the youngest women to attend HBS, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) was building a successful investment banking career when a cancer diagnosis at age 29 spurred her to volunteer at the National Alliance of Breast Cancer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Bruce Henderson a Tennessee native, was Vanderbilt’s director of development at age 26. In that capacity, he met and was hired away by Henderson to work at BCG (where he was the firm’s “best salesman ever,” Kiechel writes). In 1973 Bain... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
husband that I had received this diagnosis. What was so painful about that is that I was 31 years old, and his own birth mother had passed away at age 31 from breast cancer as well. So sharing the news with him, his mindset naturally went... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral... View Details