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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
President, MMP Group, New York, N.Y. Joseph J. O'Donnell, AB '67, MBA '71. Owner, Chairman, Boston Concessions Group, Inc., Boston, Mass. (Nominated by petition) Stephen B. Hrones, AB '64, cum laude; JD '68, University of Michigan. Sr.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
hallowed halls of Aldrich to face the inevitable, “Hi! What are you doing these days?” I spent the entire plane ride to Boston blissfully reading instead of juggling apple juice, thumping dead DVD players, and brokering peace among my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
As part of its 100th anniversary (www.hbs.edu/centennial) party for faculty, staff, and students in April, HBS brought in Benjamin Zander (www.benjaminzander.com), a world-renowned conductor and teacher who heads the Boston Philharmonic... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
midwest and central us HBS Club of Chicago Mickey Freeman, MBA 1993 CEO Bradley Greenwald, MBA 1990 Chairman and founder Education Funding Partners public school funding new england HBS Association of Boston Stephen Kahn, MBA 1978 Sr. VP... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
either in Boston or on the West Coast (in conjunction with our California Research Center in Silicon Valley). Our faculty will teach a distance learning course with some classes originating in California and some at Soldiers Field, while... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
contributed $5 million in 1924 to build the School’s campus on the Boston side of the Charles River. From the outset, the HBS campus was designed to support a new kind of education for managers. It was created as a residential campus —... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 29 May 2019
- News
Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government
In his address to HBS graduates at this year’s Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American political culture and the challenge it poses. “Now, the good news is: There is a solution,” he told the crowd, as reported by the View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
The first conference for HBS African-American alumni to be held outside Boston drew well over a hundred participants to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco over Columbus Day weekend. A committee led by Steven R. Wilkinson (MBA '82)... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
seen as symbolic of Harvard’s openness to the local community as the University expands its presence on the Boston side of the Charles River. Completed after just 22 months of construction, this new HBS landmark was made possible by the... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Josh Singer won’t tell me where he keeps his Oscar. In 2016, he won Hollywood’s most coveted award for cowriting Spotlight, the movie about Boston Globe journalists uncovering the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal that also took home... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Board. He spends several days a week at HBS, using a simple guideline to determine how to spend his time: “Who can I help the most?” In that way, he continues to shape our world and quietly impress others. Perhaps Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971)—who worked for McArthur at HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
with a second home in Utah. Nonetheless, according to the Boston Globe (February 12, 1999), Romney was surprised to be chosen to take on the Organizing Committee's vacated CEO position. "Never in a million years had I thought about taking... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
Last fall, Boston Ballet opened its season with an epic work—an uninterrupted piece choreographed to Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 that ran just under two hours. “It’s close to pure abstraction, so not a story ballet, not a fairy tale,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the... View Details