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- 01 Aug 2002
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Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
It’s not enough to be a good leader, says HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Today’s societal challenges require advanced leaders—ones with the skills of an experienced CEO, the big dreams of a new entrepreneur, and the rare ability to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis?... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
suburb with thousands of high-quality, low-cost items under one roof. A new term -- hypermarché -- was coined to describe this phenomenon. French consumers were lured away from their traditional patronage of small, locally owned stores to... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
person’s social capital,” Chertavian told the New York Times. Palandjian’s Social Finance hopes to add more training partners this year; an independent research firm, MDRC, will evaluate the performance of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
with giving him the courage to found Talking Dog Productions, his one-man operation in New York City that enables him to view his work as a business — “like selling shoes” — and inoculates him from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
something that’s still taboo to talk about. People are afraid to talk about it. They don’t want to offend others.” — HBS professor Robin Ely commenting on the reluctance of firms to accept the real business case for diversity in the workplace. (NPR, January 10, 2010)... View Details
- 18 May 2020
- News
Kevin Mayer Takes Over TikTok
Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) has left his position leading Disney’s streaming business to take over the video-sharing platform TikTok, reports the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
NFLers Tackle HBS
More than 35 active players from a number of National Football League teams, including the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, and Minnesota Vikings, spent a week at HBS in February in a custom Executive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
turnaround. Hilfiger also shared the story of his first company, which went bankrupt in 1977—an experience he referred to as “my MBA.” Some 500 members of the HBS community attended a candlelight vigil on Spangler Lawn organized by the African-American Student Union to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
story about sex, nor does it need to be,” Graden explained to the New York Times (June 28, 2005). “So much connects us beyond sexuality.” Graden was raised in a small town in Illinois and attended a... View Details
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
bumpy at best. By 1977, two of the four founding partners had left, leaving Cohen and Maurice Tchénio (MBA ’70) to look for help. Cohen approached Alan Patricof, a pioneering New York venture capitalist, to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
tangible results: The Walmart Foundation cited the research as part of its announcement of a new five-year, $100 million effort to address the skills gap. The initial competitiveness research also inspired the HBS Club of View Details
- 11 Jun 2016
- News
Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click
(Talia Herman for The New York Times) (Talia Herman for The New York Times) Startups often begin around a pain point. For Jake Anderson (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Who, Me?
online, specifically to Tickle.com, a social interaction Web site founded and run by James Currier (MBA ’99). “Tickle is an interpersonal media company about everyone’s favorite subject: themselves,” Currier explained to the New View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
Calling HBS professor Gerald Zaltman “a maverick marketing professor,” the New York Times reported on the interactive technique he developed to gauge consumer preferences using visual images, semiotics, and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Keeping It Real
MAGIC MAN: One day in 2018, Doug Duda (MBA 1985) was walking up Eighth Avenue. “A guy grabbed me from behind, which is never a welcome sensation in New York City,” he admits. “It was another guy with a white beard.” The man asked Duda to join Real Beard Santas of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
A Change of Life
The New York Times, never afraid to tackle the Big Questions, recently looked into the matter of Rob Waldron (MBA '92) and pondered thusly: Does his career switch represent a societal change in America, or... View Details