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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
financials, people, risk management, opportunity, and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
business when I graduated. We were trained to work in established companies that had tens of thousands of employees. We didn’t spend much time on international business or... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
Bahrain, and England. While in Texas with Monsanto, he noticed that the top managers had technical degrees but little training in business administration and economics. Sensing an opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
information technology companies, as well as in complementary areas such as marketing, branding, and design—all of which can help nascent businesses gain a foothold in the marketplace. Plus, the way fintech straddles the broader... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
the age of 14. Now an incoming freshman at Dartmouth College, she saw no reason to choose between academics and competing in the sport she loved. At the time, however, few supports were in place to help athletes navigate the dual pressures of a rigorous course load and... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
me a useful phrase because he was busy arguing with his aunt, I think, or grandmother. And she said, are you listening to argue or listening to listen? There's a difference. When you're listening to argue, you're looking for the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
into. White: So you describe in the book a lot of the hedonism of the Mutiny club, but once you subtract the bathtub of champagne, you really are actually telling a business story, which is your background. Can you describe a little bit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
Navarro Six years ago, Diego (“James”) Navarro (MBA ’89) completed what he calls “a 25-year apprenticeship,” though others might call it a successful career in the high-tech industry. But for Navarro, it was only training for the work... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
business administration and sociology. A four-and-a-half-year battle with tuberculosis cut short his formal university training, however, and required Andresen to be hospitalized for over two years. Still not completely recovered, in 1963... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
society in the United States and abroad. True to Teele's vision, as the Bulletin reported, HBS became involved in a variety of ways with management training programs at home and in countries such as Turkey, France, Switzerland, Manila,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
“everybody knows Uncle Billy here at Chapman Partnership,” she says. Hudson has brought both her personal experience with the plight of homelessness and her business knowledge to the organization. Those combined perspectives led her to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
lot about logistics and moving dignitaries around. And that grew into a private sector company that I launched that took it to the next step. Not only did I handle dignitaries, but I also trained other people how to do that work. What I... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
referred to when the 1931–32 HBS yearbook listed three students (with their photos) who were “taking the Five-Year Combined Program in Engineering and Business Administration.” The 1932–33 yearbook listed nine such men; the 1933–34... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
students, Khan wants parents to feel “Oh, I can do this. This isn’t impossible.” Today, Khan Academy usage is up about 250 percent, student and teacher registration rates are six times higher than normal, and parent registrations are 20 times normal. At HBS, Senior... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
course. "I think every parent whose child is diagnosed with autism becomes an advocate to some extent," she says. "Everyone goes to the walks, but there are a handful of people who want to take their professional training and use their... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
his family and his small North Carolina town after a nuclear electromagnetic-pulse attack wipes out America’s electrical infrastructure. The book struck a chord with Popik (MBA 1988), who was a captain in the US Air Force before attending HBS and had been View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
the splits. That’s just in a microcosm of how we are trained since kindergarten, that a solution to a problem fairness, quote/unquote, will emerge when we go and split things equally. That turns out to be problems in personal life and all... View Details