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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have been when he was forced to close... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
Video Embed Ann Chao discusses the inspiration behind her new startup, Sonation. As a student, Ann Chao (MBA 2013) loved playing chamber music with HBS friends. But MBAs live busy lives, and their jam sessions were few and far between. "One day I was practicing piano... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Around the World with HBS
The 2006 alumni travel program spans the globe, from Mayan ruins and Cambodian temples to insider tours of Casablanca and Buenos Aires. See the sights and soak up the culture along with other HBS alums, family, and friends. Here are the destinations and dates set for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Going Down Easy
Duda Photo courtesy A&E/THE WELL-SEASONED TRAVELER The Well-Seasoned Traveler, a food series on the A&E network, goes to the source for enlightenment: Italy for pasta, France for truffle hunting, Tokyo for sushi, Switzerland for chocolate. Doug Duda (MBA 1985), the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Devilish Plot
Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When she learns that her boyfriend’s faulty math is to blame, she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of deposit, earning a chance to win... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by changing people’s understanding of the world. This... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Soul Man
In addition to battling the usual array of human failings, evangelical Christian leaders are now coping with a new problem: Teenagers en masse are turning their backs on the faith. “I’m looking at the data,” Ron Luce (OPM 29, 2000) told the New York Times (October 6,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
South Africa Explorer: January 2005 South Africa photos See our photo archive of past Alumni Travel programs Imagine spending New Year’s Eve in the bush of South Africa, tables decked out in white linen, dinner cooked over an open fire under a sky so clear you could... View Details
- 22 Jul 2010
- News
An Entrepreneurial Tile Tale
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Sanford Climan (MBA/MS 1979) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I grew up in the northeast part of the Bronx. There was no internet, so how did you learn about the world? If you had any resources in my... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- News
Nancy Lane Remembered
Photo via ARTnews: Julie Skarratt/Courtesy The Studio Museum In Harlem Photo via ARTnews: Julie Skarratt/Courtesy The Studio Museum In Harlem Pioneering executive and arts champion Nancy Lane (PMD 29, 1975) died on March 28 at age 88. Lane was a longtime board member... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- News
Madame Gandhi is Running Her Music Career Just Like a Startup
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
HBS Art Collection Now Online
As a student at HBS, Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) says the only thing missing was an artistic presence. For the past decade, Schwartz, founder and CEO of Onex Corporation, a private-equity firm in Toronto, has been on a mission to bring contemporary art to campus... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Courtesy Pentagram Graphic designers have created some of the world’s best-known logos, from Coke to Mercedes to McDonald’s. Yet their role in establishing a company’s identity is not always understood or valued by senior management. In “Kenny Kahn at Muzak,” HBS... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
I learned classical piano in the traditional way as a kid, but as soon as I could get a synthesizer and play Foreigner and Journey, I escaped. That, for me, reinforces how our method builds on traditional programs. Our philosophy is that playing music that one loves... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible, Heyman sensed an opportunity,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
How Netflix Built its House of Cards (and Changed TV Forever)
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details