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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
the four or five days surrounding the IPO in 1980. We bet the company at every board meeting.” Superpower: “I think I would say picking good people. I know the real thing when I see it. A lot of it is intuition.” Back to top John B. Hess... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In Full Flower
Eliminating middlemen also increases vase life and leverages flowers’ ability to travel without water; many of the company’s bouquets are sent dry, in flat boxes that fit through a letter-box door slot. Gelbard notes that Valentine’s Day... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and the Virginian-Pilot. Despite his youth, Batten gained the respect and admiration of his colleagues. He made ethical, careful reporting a top priority, strongly supported school desegregation, and encouraged... 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
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
two youngest children, who were born with a rare and often fatal neuromuscular disorder. Watching its production was, alternately, an unreal, thrilling, and deeply emotional experience for the Crowley family. Less than a year after delivering the Class View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Kettering Cancer Center, where his brother was treated so many years ago. Peter Crisp My father made it clear that in the summertime I had to work and get a job. And I went to work when I was about 12 years old, for $4 a day as a worker... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
work ethic—“they didn’t care what we did, but everyone had to work hard,” she says—and her mother offered a model of public service, serving as chancellor of the Board of Regents, New York State’s governing body for education. But when... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
to make everything from life-saving medicines to juicy meatless burgers. Early on, Ginkgo had plans to branch out into biosecurity. The thinking was, McKnight says, “If we’re going to build a bioengineering platform, then we’d better also View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Healthcare Exchange, where our purpose is to help reduce the cost of doing health care for citizens across the United States and in Europe, and bringing his Deep Purpose messaging to all of our employees creates so much engagement and... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
trades per se, but taking in what's going on in the 165-person company he helped launch shortly after earning his MBA. Rarely using his private office, he begins each day reading four to six newspapers, surrounded by colleagues. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
So many boxes. Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) moved into this Brooklyn Heights apartment just a few days ago, as evidenced by the ratio of boxes emptied to those still filled. The living room, though, is an island of unpacked order, bobbing above... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
that this was a problem? WW: I recognized that my anger was a problem the day that my wife turned to me and said that we were getting separated and that she wanted to get divorced. Prior to that moment, I always thought that my intensity... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
typically hectic month last spring, he taught in three HBS executive education programs, gave several presentations to alumni, and spent a day each in Nicaragua and Costa Rica leading an effort to create an economic vision for Central... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Saladrigas managed to save $400 -- by mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and waxing cars -- to help his parents get settled when they arrived from Cuba in 1962. Tragically, his mother then developed cancer, and Saladrigas dropped out of high school to help View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
people with disabling hearing loss Buoy Health—provides AI-powered feedback on symptoms and makes recommendations for care options Careport Health—offers care coordination software solutions to manage... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
another factor.” Still, after more reflection, Enan realized that the conveniences she enjoyed in the States were also the reason she wanted to leave. She was getting too comfortable. “I thought I cared about things I didn’t actually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
Through these meetings I’ve gained a greater appreciation for how deeply people care about the School and the role they wish to see us to play in the world. I’ve also come to see how the collective efforts of this community are the... View Details