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Commencement 2020 Address | About
our last. This is also the tenth and last time I will have the honor of speaking to a graduating class as Dean of this School as I plan to step down at the end of this year. This is certainly not how any of us had hoped to celebrate this... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
My family bonded over storytelling. Older family members recounted tales of their past experiences over shared meals, emphasizing the transformational role that education, hard work, and generosity played in... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Students from Africa
and I was involved with the planning of the conference last year. We are a very close-knit club so through that I have always felt like I had a family at HBS. My involvement with the club has kept me busy... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
his family. In the 1980s, Adem T. Bunkeddeko’s (MBA 2017) parents escaped from war-torn Uganda to a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Queens. There they raised their children and helped other friends and family acclimate to this new country.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck Illustration by Zachary Pullen When Tom Oreck (OPM 26, 1998) took over the family vacuum cleaner business seven years ago, his biggest challenge was to transform the firm from an entrepreneurial “one-man band” founded by his father,... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged financial controls than on... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
days before a large and distinguished gathering of luminaries, including President Pusey and HBS faculty, staff, alumni, and friends, assembled on campus for Baker Hall's dedication. The ceremony took place as planned but only after a... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
much one can, or should, plan out a career, and they shared concerns about the challenges they would face. Students took advantage of sessions designed to help them navigate specific sectors and to introduce them to lifelong career... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
accepted to HBS. I also received a fellowship and internship offer from a leading finance firm and had plans to return to Wall Street. Shortly after arriving on campus, however, I realized that I wanted to take the opportunity to explore... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
establishing your intent as a donor, setting strategic priorities, hiring staff, and managing compliance, administration, and governance. It typically makes more sense for families looking to invest millions of dollars over many years to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Almost Didn’t Apply to HBS
Like many of you reading this article, I prefer to plan out each step of my life. Methodically marching towards each life goal, and rolling with the punches life throws at me. Oftentimes though, unforeseen events take place, and our well... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
cofounded in 1998. He also advised a number of student teams competing in the HBS Business Plan Contest, an event he judged in previous years. “It made me feel good that three of the four finalists that year, including the winning team,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Attending Peek Weekend
the Peek experience. Participants were divided into one of three cohorts: STEM, Family Business, and Women’s Colleges. The diversity among Peek participants led to deep, meaningful discussion that resembled the class dynamics that take... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
Stroeer left her job as a consultant in 2015 and converted a van to live out of as she ran, climbed, and hiked through the backcountry, she didn’t plan on turning her lifestyle into a one-woman business. But, she says, “I realized very... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial district vibe or a go-global... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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Amy Yamner
She would be the first in her family and hoped they would let her go. In 2004, I started at HBS, and Lourdes entered Cal-State Hayward. Two year later, I still hear how things are going, how she is changing, learning and growing. Like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
more than forty articles for academic and professional journals. Born in 1919 in Lancashire, England, Dearden immigrated with his family to western Massachusetts in 1924. He received a bachelor’s degree from American International College... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
conducted now is extremely broad. "There was a lot more than we had first realized," she reported. Nine HBS professors described the research they are conducting on Latin America as well as work they plan to do in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace