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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Entrepreneur Of The Year, Financial Services 2013 James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences opens at Eckerd College Tom James's entrepreneurial bent was apparent early on. An avid coin collector, at the age of 15 he began to buy and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
described her as a middle-aged woman. Middle age is a much different proposition these days. And far more mathematically accurate — there are probably as many years left as lived. Looking back, thanks to social change, the baby boomer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first job as a shepherd boy, at... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
creation plans.” What is your favorite HBS case and why? Pradhan: “I don’t know if it is my favorite, but a case that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was “Europe, Russia and the Age of Gas Revolution.” I’d always thought about natural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation rechargeable batteries Michael... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
on how people can reorient the second half of their lives for optimal happiness. Does this idea play less with students because they first have to chase that success to understand its limits? Or are they ready at an earlier age to define... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
talks about. In a short space of 30 years, China has transformed itself radically and become a major factor in the world. Victor and I saw this abrupt change as the beginning of a golden age for a trading company like Li & Fung. The... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
allows us to remove all of the emotion and then we can tap into our intuition. Because at the end of the day, you'll never have perfect data. You just can't. And so even in the age of big data, I would argue we have way too much data. But... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28. Houlihan Lokey would go on to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
activity. Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and Unit Head, Technology and Operations Management; and Karim... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
father’s greeting was, ‘Is your homework done?’ ” Real-world experience: “One of my HBS recommendations was written by my supervisor from a job I had on the Mass Turnpike. I worked for four summers as a maintenance truck rider and guardrail fixer.” TV debut: Romper... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
everyone's relaxed, fun-loving inner self could flourish. That formula brought the organization unrivaled success. But times got tough in the 1990s. Club Med's original customer base was aging and its libidinous image grew passé. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
neighbors. That approach attracted Karen and Mickey Taylor, owners of Seattle Slew. The only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history also enjoyed great success in the breeding shed, siring over 100 Stakes winners with combined earnings topping $79 million. Before his... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
involved in the recent Tsinghua program and teaches Competing in the Information Age in the MBA curriculum, is intrigued by how different countries react to new technologies. “In the United States, we embrace new technology with a huge... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate to work? In the following pages six HBS alumni who are... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
my classmates when I took a job at AcurA Corporation in Columbus, Ohio. But my Navy leadership experience quickly paid off. After five years, at the age of 32, I was promoted to vice president of sales and service for Western Europe. I... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Association of Southern California (HBSASC), The Reckoning: Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire was the sixth in a series of HBS regional alumni events on the role of business leaders in the age of climate change. Learn more about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
more related to age and career stage than personality. There’s lots of research on the psychological importance of beginnings. Your early career is where you really prove yourself. When you start out at a new organization, that first year... View Details