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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at Goldman. "It's painful every time you... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
problem: how the business was run ran completely counter to what he’d learned as a child working alongside his entrepreneurial father in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Traveling to New York as the company’s representative, Schwartz had a moment of... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
the tiniest pieces possible.” “Garbage is messy,” Williams told the Times. “But Jessie is someone who doesn’t run away from that type of challenge. She embraces it.” That jibes with Tisch’s own feelings about leading DSNY out of a period... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
chain is as strong as its most vulnerable link. In 1907, runs began among trust companies, the “shadow banks” of the day. Fourth, financial crises can be quite damaging. Carr and I show that US economic growth fell well below trend for... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
relished exceptional personal challenges - running in big-city marathons, amateur race car driving, and, as befits a graduate of the Naval Academy, skippering his 58-foot sloop Integrity to victory in the 1991 Bermuda Race. "I lead a full... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
me was that prior to that moment, when a problem would arise, if I put my full intensity behind it, and that might include some anger, and really started to drive the process, that I could make things right, that I could get a business unit that wasn’t performing well... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
taking time to coach his daughters' soccer teams and attend his son's piano recitals. Together with his wife, Beth, he has also given generously to causes they believe in. "Giving back has been a theme for us from a very early stage,"... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
it is important to consider the context and development life cycle of an idea when collecting data or running an experiment—what have we really learned from this experience. —Amy Lieb (MBA 2001) Back to top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
decoration of some sort. The orange tunnel’s walls have been adorned with enlarged pages of old economic treatises and cartoons on business subjects and photos of the campus buildings and the Weeks footbridge under construction. Back... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
with the near-impossible job of drug discovery and development.” Back to top Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United In my solitude: “I was born in Rome, Georgia. I’m an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
digital computer, a room-sized behemoth that sported 18,000 vacuum tubes and resembled the unholy offspring of a fuse box and a telephone exchange when it was unveiled in 1943. “This is the complexity you need to run five qubits,” Levy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
briefcase nearby is a reminder of his prodigious capacity for work. "I'm currently dealing with five projects simultaneously," he explains. "I carry a part of each one in my bag, so that I can go back and forth between them." Porter's... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner