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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
eventually like to pursue a PhD in business. Kim, who was one of Castro’s mentors, followed a similar path. She was a rising Harvard College senior when she participated in PRIMO in 2011 and is now a member of the Darden marketing faculty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
idea in the possession of a person with only average ability.” (Gordon College Archives) The digital revolution One of Doriot’s earliest ARD outlays was $70,000 for 70 percent of Digital Equipment Corporation, which would go on to become... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
cofounding forty years ago of The Carroll School, which specializes in teaching children with language-based learning differences. He’s also active with his class at Harvard College (celebrating its 70th Reunion this year) and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
word processing program, and speak English, he would make him an engineer. (In addition to providing technical training, Roshan has subsidized college degrees for a number of employees.) Today, Ladak notes that those engineers and other... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
1960s. Nundy attended boarding school in India and later worked there during college summers. Her years in India have caused her to reexamine her priorities. "For me, closing a billiondollar merger transaction between two large corporate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
interest in international languages and culture led to sabbaticals abroad that included a stint to study economics at the University of Freiburg in Germany and a break to brush up on his German at a Dartmouth College language program. (He... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
dropped out of college and joined a New York securities firm. He saw his sales and commissions rise after he decided to be less than forthcoming about potential drawbacks to the investment ideas he was pitching to customers. Over time,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
than 300 oil rigs, Kovatch became an engineer recruiter in North America for Schlumberger, visiting more than 40 colleges and universities a year. “I loved the adventure, telling the stories from the oil patch and being the face of the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Emeritus Johnson & Johnson Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com EARLIER EDUCATION College of the Holy Cross, 1947 B.S., Economics LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS had a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
have been increasingly demanding a bachelor’s degree for jobs that didn’t traditionally require one. Since only a third of the US population has a bachelor’s degree, the pool of candidates for those positions is limited. Compounding the problem, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
of Asia Pacific for Marriott International, Smith worked his way through college at his uncle’s inn in Provo, Utah. After graduation, he volunteered to be the housekeeping manager at a Marriott property in Newport Beach, California. “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
high-tech skills to college graduates. "It's an ideal job, because it will allow me to work closely with software developers, have a hand in marketing and sales, and play a role in the education of new employees," he explains. But don't... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
the experience helped him "develop the ability to learn from mistakes, heal a bruised ego, and willingly accept responsibility." After graduating from college with a degree in economics, Kemp canceled his plans to travel the world when... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the next 15 years, the goal in our schools is to really break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for high-level college education and, eventually, livelihoods," says Leschly. "Because then you can break the cycle of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
a return of the slide rule. But no one seems quite willing to consign the WAC once and for all to the annals of HBS history. Hired in 1961, Virginia Plexico was one of some two dozen female WAC graders that year, most of whom were recent View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way through high school and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
no conflict, it would be like a doctor not having sick patients or a firefighter not having any fires to put out. So you deal with it. Player skills, competition, and coaching in the WNBA is getting better and better every year. Now women in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen