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- 25 Mar 2014
- News
GrabTaxi Makes a Go of It
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
decide to stay in Cambridge rather than transfer to the U.S. Naval Academy. Entering the Marine Corps after graduation, Mixon trained as an artillery officer and landed in Vietnam in 1965 just as American involvement in the war began to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Feedback
Military Memories Re: The Military and the MBA Photo courtesy of Phil Curtis As a member of the Class of 1974, we were thrown into the midst of the travails of the Vietnam War and were populated by a number of patriotic officers serving... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
attitudes and objectives of students and faculty at HBS had been fairly consistent from one year to the next, but the early '70s marked a turning point. The School was not immune to the unprecedented social and political upheaval triggered by U.S. involvement in the... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on community improvement activities such as building a house in View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
Development in Thailand during the height of the U.S. Vietnam War buildup. He then started a brokerage house in Bangkok before eventually returning to New York and opening his nostalgia-laced startup. "I'm not going to build an Edsel... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
cofounded the greeting card company in 2015—have backgrounds in engineering and manufacturing, and the company has a team in Vietnam that is well-versed in sourcing materials and shipping to the US. “At our core we’re a design and... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
that his generation “relaxed” after the Vietnam conflict and that it was time to get back to work to make the world a better place for succeeding generations. In the 1960s, Arthur said, he saw how a movement could begin: “One or two stand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
WAC that said, “Think more, say less, and try not to smudge oil on your wrinkled WAC!” Pssst, Got Any Ideas about This War? WAC student Bruce Bockmann (MBA ’67) During our first year, my class — about one-third of whom had served in the military — had a long WAC case... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
consulting business, a smattering of travels. On the horizon, I knew, was a departure from full-time work. In 2008, with no particular goal in mind, I took a trip on a riverboat down the Mekong River, from Cambodia to Vietnam. Vietnam was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
to make the changes that are needed. I don’t have the same fears about making those changes that most people do. It may come from my experience as a Navy officer on a ship during the Vietnam War. Once you come through a war, your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
India, Peru, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Vietnam to observe local economies, study management practices in the field, and interact directly with business and community leaders. In addition, domestic programs took... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can read about that trip, and the program, here.) I’m staying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
to me as I approached it through my path in the ice. As a Navy Seal officer (and Vietnam vet prior to HBS), this was not my first ice-water swim. I was well aware of the amount of time a body can spend in ice water before conditions get... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg