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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and therapy, and start to explore what else is out there and what you would want to do. That's stage two. Then stage three is more of an integrating what you've learned. I spoke to a CEO of a financial advisory firm in Seattle, who has... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
this year a baby, next year Europe," to quote one commentator, and do all those other things the media tells me you're doing to destroy our economy, tradition, ethics - our very way of life? Section D Correspondent Kathleen Fitzsimmons (MBA '81) April 1999 My company,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
maintaining a robust financial aid program. By underpinning the School's need-blind admissions policy, fellowships help bring together students from around the world whose insights enrich the learning experience for all. Fellowships also... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
development in the United States following her graduation from HBS. She fell in love with what was then Czechoslovakia during a visit to Central Europe and moved to Prague in 1991. "I worked in economic development and venture capital here for three years before... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
administrator and financial manager for pediatric medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Then, in 1989, came an opportunity with UNICEF. “It was the perfect match with my interests and... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in double feature (children were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
in a race against time, working for the underground agency IA3. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, the IA3 team enlists the CIA’s aid with local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the team’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
way to success, the first step, the authors say, is to take action now and learn on the way. They show how to determine the best strategy and tactics when the future is uncertain, how to minimize financial risk in every decision, and why... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS Distinguished View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
service especially needed given the isolation caused by the pandemic. After two decades in the senior housing industry, which included overseeing a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a REIT, Oppenheim developed a vitality framework built... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
in Iraq. Local Motors currently has three working microfactories, with plans to build a network of 50. But the pressures of military service weighed on him. He loved the Marines, but he missed his wife and three-year-old son. Two of his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
actually on the HBS website and I called the headhunter and I said, "I really want to interview for this job." Sodexo's a food service company principally. I was in financial services, and the headhunter... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
sales and distribution operations to service the needs of large mass accounts. After considerable restructuring in 2002, Neurosmith was delighted when Target agreed to distribute its products and launch them in the fall of 2003. “For a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
and technology; and governance, corporate finance, and organizational performance. The remaining chapters in the book give in-depth histories of and updates on some of the other efforts that bore considerable fruit under McArthur: Competition and Strategy; the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm itself, did not leave time for family and personal life. The fact... View Details
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
HBS alumni and students are among the names topping two major lists of up-and-comers in the worlds of retail, finance, health, nonprofits, and more that were released this week. Forbes has just published its annual “30 Under 30” list, which includes these HBS alumni:... View Details