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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
public service. He worked as the administration’s point man in dealing with that year’s crisis in the world oil supply. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he went to the White House to serve as counsel to newly appointed Vice President Nelson... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
the dinner, he sent a limousine to our house to bring her to the School. But most touching of all: when my mother died, John came to her funeral service at the Village Church. Following the service, he gave me a big hug; it was like being... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
“There’s a lot of relationship-building behind a development like this,” Oakes says of the housing project. “I’ve always wanted to be the bridge between ‘hard’ business skills and nonprofits — and since I didn’t always speak the language... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
steps and re-calculations. As he finds a sports auction house to consign his collection, he watches the auction market and reports on his findings as well as his strategies and successes. While dealing with the disappointments of parting... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
never heard of Wattle Range. Upon conducting research, he discovered that his ancestors were among the first European settlers in the region and his grandfather had built the mill and adjoining houses in one of its forestry towns. “I have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
masters. ... But as the military stalemate continued, the pressure on the president to seek settlement terms with the Confederacy increased. ...And the commander in chief began to waver. Perhaps, he told himself as he paced the White View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
morning on October 12, 2020, a home security system captured a moment that would go viral on social media. [knocking] Bob Wilson: Paul? JH: Bob Wilson and his wife Mary had walked across the street to his colleague Paul Milgrom’s house to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
the lead car was almost thrown out several times. But the company has actually managed to change the world, which is pretty cool. That doesn’t happen all the time.” “The vision has always been compelling, and it’s always been bold,” Wilcox says during my visit to E... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
ingredients—the bigger, better shrimp. Replace the outdated kitchen with the awful equipment and put in the very best cooking equipment. Those are fundamentals. They are not visible to the consumer. But if you don't fix these things, it's like building a View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Women in Business Support, courage, and inspiration were the watchwords at the “Dynamic Women in Business” conference, held at HBS in late January. With a packed house of more than nine hundred participants, the event offered a day of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Republican senator from the state of Maryland. “I even knew which house I wanted to live in. I was unbecomingly ambitious at an early age.” Bradley, who attended Sidwell Friends School and Swarthmore College, was working for Nixon’s... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
blown wide open, forcing students, their families, and educators to confront a greater range of challenges simultaneously, among them widening socio-economic gaps, the digital divide, food and housing insecurities, domestic abuse, and, in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
made her culture deck public, Netflix dropped a complete season of House of Cards and forever changed the way the world consumed content. McCord designed Netflix’s culture to attract high-performing creative leaders who thrive in work... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
schools and Aspire Public Schools in California). NLNS is well on its way to its goal of training two thousand new leaders to serve some one million urban children. Burns became interested in education when she volunteered to tutor children at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
years as Bonn bureau chief. Seeking a better understanding of policymaking, she applied to the White House Fellows program in 1996 and was chosen to be special assistant to the FCC chairman. Choi subsequently served as domestic policy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
top two floors house 10 unique classroom spaces dubbed “hives,” and the first floor is home to the new Harvard Innovation Lab. (see page 42) Unlike Aldrich Hall’s amphitheater-style classrooms with fixed seating, the oval-shaped hives... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
RK: Truly. I mean, I used to take the baby with me all the time on the road looking at businesses. It was often an icebreaker and chatting with business owners, you know, it was just what I did because I used to drive around industrial parks within 30 minutes of my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
Winners With everyone else in the house asleep, Tracy spent all night online. She found pictures of children with muscular dystrophy employing something called the Gowers' sign to get off the floor, using their hands to push themselves... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
wonderful book. Bob Boorstin, who used to be at the White House and at Google, is speaking out about his bipolar disorder. Scott Stossel, who's the editor of the Atlantic, is speaking out about his own anxiety. And we have many, many more... View Details