Point Four Program - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

I am thrilled to address you in my new role as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I look forward to using this vehicle to update you regularly on the work of the Alumni Board as well as other programs of note to the greater alumni... View Details

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

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

global market, electric vehicles have become a government imperative. European Union member states, for instance, are preparing to implement the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive, which mandates the buildup of publicly accessible charging View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

investors said at the time,” Baer recounts, “ ‘The good news is we just bought the team. The bad news is we just bought the team. What the hell do we do with it?’ ” As a business, the Giants organization was losing around $15 million a year. The public had refused to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts

this work,” says Roberts, “and nine out of ten will describe turning over logs and discovering things when they were little.” Four decades later, he’s still discovering nature, but on a global scale. Since his appointment in February 2005... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

20 Jul 2020
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Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online

that could have been because my Executive Education program had a lot of students from other countries where they couldn’t be out,” says Rocco. “We have to rely on people to self-identify. While the student LGBT club is very active... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around View Details

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

degree and experience as CEO of a public company. These criteria can create unnecessary barriers for women, who are traditionally underrepresented in technical-education programs and hold only about 6 percent of CEO roles in S&P 500... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

also some point of interest for people who don't really know about what has happened in the region that they live. Morrell: The GRAC Team had met locals who helped guide them to the site. One of whom clearly remembered playing with parts... View Details

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

gone to the US. “Now people reach out to us to recruit,” he says. “Every month we send out a newsletter, and in each one we probably have at least four job openings listed.” The group isn’t just for Africans or current MBAs, either.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Sep 2007
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Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President

commitment to a global mission. “I see a shift in emphasis from the School making a difference inside the borders of the United States to making a difference around the globe,” he notes. That commitment is evident, he points out, in the... View Details

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

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

26 May 2016
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Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

serve his country, but his father, a factory worker, convinced him to go to college instead. When he graduated from the University of California, Davis, he intended to keep his job as a city bus driver, but through a friend’s father, he got an interview at Bechtel... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier

becomes an unlikely entrepreneur, supporting her siblings when her father and brother are forced to flee the Taliban. Ashley’s War (2015) centers on the US military’s Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program that inserted women alongside... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

ideas can come from anywhere — inside or outside, up or down an organization.” Sorrell, whose firm places up to one-third of all the advertising seen around the world, addressed the challenges WPP Group faces in developing a global strategy. To date, he View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1972 Born, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1995 Earns BA, Economics, DePauw University 1995 Launches Angie’s List 1996 Angie’s List buys Unified Neighbors 2000 Earns MBA 2002 Cofounds Orr Fellowship View Details