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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
data tells you one thing, but it’s talking to people and being out in the world that really give you the creative power to see what’s next.” Joint venture: “We built Bluemercury while we were building our family and associate each one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
"When men and women across the firm internalize a definition of competence and power that includes women, that makes a difference in retention and advancement." A longitudinal study of the consulting firm... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
19th century to the present. Using the example of the Rong family, China's most prominent industrialist family in pre-1949 China, analyzes the organizational structure and transformation of Chinese family... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock found Sherman Fairchild, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
it was assumed you’d stay with that firm for life. And if one of your corporate clients got a better offer from a competing bank, they’d stick with you anyway. Loyalty and relationships were everything. That is emphatically no longer the... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
often discussed with Uncle the expediency of my buying a house in town, in which all the family could be collected to live in the winter,” John Heard wrote. “He approved the idea, and I was not, therefore, much surprised when he told me... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing strategies for addressing them. Students may have career interests in organizations that provide health care (e.g., hospitals, medical groups, retail clinics) or in View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
Horn from his perch amid Hollywood’s youth-obsessed culture, “is the experience that comes with time.” Alan Horn was born in New York City, the second of three children, and raised on Long Island by working-class parents. His mother worked with a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients such as Prudential, Colgate,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
specialization. Consider one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. His experience defines what it means to transition from outsider to insider. He came to this country at age six because his parents were trying to escape the oppression of the former Soviet Union.... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
applying to business schools. And not just any business schools, but Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Kellogg. I was working anywhere from 80 to 95 hours per week in private equity. I was the only female at the firm of three offices. To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
families to finish college and earn master's degrees, but even to attend high school," he says with pride. "They're completely supportive of me." Indeed, when it came time for a mentor, Mitchell had only to look at the faces around his... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
devoted time and resources to protecting the world’s wide-open spaces. Two of this year’s winners cited family life. “Finding a balance is something I’m proud about,” remarked Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (MBA ’87), leader of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Management Déjà Vu,” by asking his audience about their concerns, as owners and operators of small businesses. A number of issues were voiced: sales and marketing; cash flow; hiring and motivating employees; smooth succession within View Details
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David Gellis
David Gellis comes from a family of physicians. But during his college career, his interests swung toward journalism and even led to a stint as editor of the Harvard Crimson. Yet the medical call came to him as well. "Journalism gave... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
developed by HBS Professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna. To date, the CEM project has conducted deep and impactful interviews with business leaders in 30 countries across emerging markets on topics including innovation, leadership, View Details