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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
On opposite coasts of the United States, two HBS clubs have developed innovative programs to help MBA students broaden their career options. "I am confident that I will get a job in Seattle when I graduate," says Martin DeBono (HBS '00),... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
gathering of alumni and guests at the Contemporâneo 8076 in São Paulo. Ibiye Harry (MBA 2013), Dean Nitin Nohria, and Scott Malkin (MBA 1983) posed for a photo during the reception held inside Old Billingsgate. Upcoming Regional Events Around the World View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
told him that his chances of walking again were slim. The prediction, however, did little to discourage his determination. After spending two weeks in a Seattle trauma center, Feagler was airlifted to Denver, where he spent the next... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
neighbors. That approach attracted Karen and Mickey Taylor, owners of Seattle Slew. The only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history also enjoyed great success in the breeding shed, siring over 100 Stakes winners with combined earnings... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
NFLers Tackle HBS
assist players in preparing for life after football. The players cracked cases on a variety of business topics and took workshops on entrepreneurial opportunities and business management. Also from the NFL and now in the MBA Class of 2011 is Isaiah Kacyvenski, a former... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
Washington, DC Cleveland Mexico City Dubai Houston London São Paulo Seattle Istanbul Toronto To learn more about upcoming events and see photos from past events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/CampaignEvents View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
really important.” Upcoming Regional Events Chicago* Wednesday, March 16, 2005; 11:00 a.m. registration begins University Club of Chicago HBS professor Rakesh Khurana will discuss “Irrational Succession: Discussion of CEO Succession in Large Corporations.” View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
William M. Allen, Boeing’s chief executive at the time, was asked to meet with us because Vertol, a helicopter company acquired by Boeing, was far behind schedule with the vitally needed Chinook helicopter. Allen reassigned his best manufacturing executive from View Details
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
That’s $10 million a year, a sum that could go up (or down) depending on the success of his progeny (the first Smarty foals hit the racetrack next year). Many assume that Big Brown’s bloodlines will merit a higher fee than $100,000. Undefeated Triple Crown champion... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
ACOG who are Vietnam vets liken it to the experience of being on patrol in the jungle one day and stepping off a plane in Seattle or San Francisco the next evening. After years of being totally consumed by my job, I'm now trying to focus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wife, Heather, a sixth-grade teacher. The pair live in Seattle with their infant son, Collin. “But before that, I want to work at many different nonprofits — to sample what it's like and to see how well they apply resources to their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
company’s product throughout its Seattle headquarters. Other customers include NASA, the Ritz-Carlton, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Amazon, Disney’s Epcot theme park, and Google. IceStone has come a long way since Magagnini’s dark day, and not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
parents divorced when he was nine, Kacyvenski enrolled at Harvard, graduating cum laude in 2000 with a premed degree and earning All-American honors as a four-year starter at linebacker before being drafted by the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
recently wrapped up workshops in Seattle and Indianapolis. Other cities on the tour include Toronto, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Houston, and St. Louis. Northern California Alumni Consider the High Cost of Complexity Etienne Deffarges at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
electric buses to transit agencies across the country, says that his business “has to a large extent gone mainstream,” with orders coming in from some of the biggest cities in the US, including Seattle and Chicago. But mass transit is,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
work. I hadn’t thought about that. And I saw this in a pretty vivid way, actually first at the Seattle Seahawks, the football team in Seattle, with Coach Pete Carroll talking about it and trying to get employees to think about their... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees created a group called “Amazon employees for climate justice” and they staged a walkout. They walked out of the Seattle headquarters. When they did, they were joined by employees from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook, who... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade