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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company Abercrombie & Kent in 1962. By View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
age of global development -- not the agricultural revolution and not the industrial revolution, but a digital and electronic revolution, which will have enormous implications on where we go both in the world in general and in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
and work experiences. We had some evidence that the experience had broadened their sense of what it meant to be a man. In fact, we actually posed the question “What does it mean to you to be a man?” fully realizing that they might think we were crazy to ask something... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
Space officially launched its 18-month-long in-person entrepreneurship program, and now each cohort can accommodate more than 20 enterprises across a range of services and products. Participants aged 18 to 45 who have been accepted into... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe has a similar problem, with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepare for classes as well? "It was pretty tough," he admits with a smile. "But I thrived on working with people from different sectors of the HBS community on a variety of issues." Getting along with people and taking initiative have always been Kemp's trademarks.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Industries, a real estate investment firm he started in 1968. C.D. Spangler Construction company was founded by Spangler's father, C.D. Spangler, Sr. – a self-made man who had not been able to afford college and who, at the age of 50, was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
after he got out of the service. "I wanted to emulate my father, who always attributed his self-confidence to his Marine Corps experience," Walsh explains. By age fourteen, Walsh had already made his first solo flight. In 1992, he earned... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
participants, had 10 students, ages 7 to 15, and a long wait list. The students’ enthusiasm wowed de Menil. So did the logistics. Two bachata musicians traveled twice a month from Santa Domingo—125 miles away—to teach, a model that was... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
they’re becoming. When we look around the world, there’s been a long-standing tradition of recognizing that age 18 is the most formative moment in a young person’s life. It’s true developmentally—the neuroscience will tell us that. And... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
supplements correct dosages for each horse. You can probably picture what happened next: the hasty return trip to SmartPak’s offices and the tears and bad feelings that come from cutting short a visit to the Magic Kingdom when you have three children under the View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
successful in this digital transformation, we will be able to build on our strengths and be the premier business network in the world that understands how to generate value and solve important problems. EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Leadership in the Digital View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
evocative word. Can you elaborate? We are living in an age in which we are simply much more tired! laughter It’s the white-hot speed of the information revolution. It’s the technology that’s brought an astounding amount of choice, not to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
stop of the blockbuster exhibition, Treasures of Tutankhamun, was at Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art, where Basseches, then age 14, was dazzled by the gold statue of the boy king, the carved alabaster lions, and the elaborate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Centennial Goes YouTube
$700 in six weeks guessing the weight of fairgoers large and small — earning 25â for each correct guess. Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, jokingly observes that he was destined for a career in money management. At View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
leader once said, 'Hold your tongue in youth so that someday with age and maturity you might have something worthwhile to say.' That's the philosophy I follow." The new student who has stunned his classmates into silence is Taylor Keen, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he supervised scores of volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso