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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
the Veterans' Administration and lived with a family friend whose nephew was a student at Howard University. Determined to go to college, she enrolled at Howard at age 22 with the help of a scholarship, student loans, and part-time... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
I mean is, 90% of my time with my parents was spent up to age 18. The remainder, from age 18 to, like, age 50 if they pass away-- I don't know-- that remainder only equals like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and Alaska, finally retiring last year... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Administration. “The traditional model has been turned upside down. Having the data to innovate at scale is now the main thing.” Lakhani and Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, are frequent collaborators. Their new book, Competing in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
reunion. She has also focused on her children, aged 21, 18, and 15, the oldest of whom won a bronze medal for the U.S. women's short-track speedskating team at this year's world championships. "For the first time in my life it was nice... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the Millennium Building on the work begun in 1998, this committee will continue to look at the viability of offering continuing education to HBS alumni. Feedback tells us that alumni of all ages are looking for opportunities to tap... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
and how we each contribute to making it better. Last September, at the age of 64, the stars finally aligned. I shipped a bike from my home in Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle, Washington, and began the 3,000-some-odd-mile journey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
doing with a dollar more effective than what the poor can do for themselves?” Cash isn’t the only answer, he acknowledges. Direct cash transfers won’t build hospitals or pave roads, but they can spur entrepreneurship. One recipient in Kenya, John, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
diverse: 35 percent are female, 33 percent are international representing 73 countries, and 21 percent are minorities. The median age is 27. Such diversity is essential to prepare MBAs to live and work in a global economy, Dewey explains.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
awards from Advertising Age (2005) and Creativity (2004, 2005). In May, Hicks and the firm’s three partners were featured on the cover of BusinessWeek as “The Craziest Ad Guys in America.” Here, Hicks talks about the method in the madness... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
and taking care of a family. "It gave me a lot of enthusiasm and motivation as well as a chance to step back and see the presidency at a distance. I could think!" she says. As the mother of two children, ages eight and two, Meyer rarely... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty, by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian MacMillan, offers a practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
product into what you see as an undifferentiated market and saying, whoever wants it can come and get it.” For example, as baby boomers age it could be beneficial to think of health-related concerns for that View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
loving it. My sister played for two years. After that I was the only girl in California playing hockey in my age division. It was just me and the boys, which I loved. When I was nine, my dad took my brother and me to try out for an... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
connection to your heritage until the oldest person in your family passes away. In that sense, my grandmother’s death last September, at the age of 92, was a turning point for me. I had already lost my father; right before lockdown, I was... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HBS assistant professor Charles King III investigates whether, indeed, cigarette companies advertise to magazine readers between the ages of 12 and 17. As King and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey