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- 08 Jun 2011
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George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in early May. After Yeo had completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at Cambridge... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
learned a lot from the “camaraderie and business experiences” of her OPM classmates at HBS. When it comes to problem solving, Calabrese said she values the discipline she gained, through the case method, in working through sets of facts... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
government factories employed a majority of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants (including Mlotok’s parents) until market reforms obliterated the industry, leaving thousands penniless. “The mid-1990s were the worst time,” recalls Mlotok, who at that point was View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
hearts for taking us in." Following the dedication ceremony, many who had gathered adjourned to Aldrich Hall, where Professor F. Warren McFarlan, senior associate dean, director of External Relations, offered an academic session titled "Information Technology in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
student clubs, Akinola cochaired this year’s Africa Business Conference, which brought more than five hundred people to campus to discuss entrepreneurial ventures in Africa. She is also writing a case study... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
pre-vet course of study at Texas A&M but was lured to the booming oil and gas industry after graduation. He applied to HBS a few years later and went to Wall Street after leaving Soldiers Field. Anderson worked for Donaldson, Lufkin &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
Alan, echoing a sentiment that was heard many times over during the trip. As for the highlights of the journey, he put “seeing a male lion perched in a tree,” as his and Monica’s most memorable moment and listed several close seconds including the lectures by Carrie... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
a few hundred case studies, a lightbulb lit up. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” says Mikitani, who, at 47, is one of Japan’s youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. In 1997, after... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
information while packaging that information for vendors who need it. "A sea change is upon us," say the authors. "Those managers who ignore the potential may find themselves managing without access to customer information." A byproduct of field data collected during... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
was a dearth of case studies on women in the workplace, she was instrumental in establishing in 1997 Harvard Business School's Marjorie Alfus/C200 Initiative for developing View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
last fall the Krafts launched a "Kick Cancer" awareness campaign. They endowed a chaired professorship in Jewish studies at Boston College and a chaired professorship in Christian studies at Brandeis. All... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
the surgery scenes.) Heskett says studying Shouldice helped him conceptualize the strategic-service vision that he and HBS colleagues would develop into a framework for success for service firms. “The case... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of "Downton Abbey"! THE WESTMORELAND STORY IS A "CATEGORY OF BUSINESS HISTORY." IS THERE A PLACE FOR THIS SORT OF HISTORICAL STUDY IN THE MBA... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and public service, most recently as Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in early May. After Yeo had... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
is the extensive research conducted for case development and the creation of primers for instruction about the future of work from undergraduate classes to executive education. We’ve also developed the second-year MBA course Managing the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
lot of financial modeling. It was a nice segue to business school." While at Monitor, Laguë made the acquaintance of two directors, Roger Martin (MBA 1981) and Gerry Throop (MBA 1988). Impressed by what he learned from them about the case... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
to leave the state for college, Gregg majored in economics and East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University and worked as a consultant at Charles River Associates before coming to HBS. “I got to do such crazy stuff,” she says of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
companies that are case studies in surmounting competitive threats and fostering community pride. Jim Knott Sr. (OPM 17, 1991) relishes a good fight. During his first prep school wrestling practice, his... View Details