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Portrait Project

Margaret Watson

your summer? How was your internship?” With big hugs, sectionmate after sectionmate asked me these questions when I got back to school. Avoiding, I threw on a big smile, “It was great!” I didn’t want to tell my sob story. But, really,... View Details

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Cindy Thanh Tran

My memory of childhood is filled with carrots - relatively cheap, good for eyesight. I grew up in Vietnam, the war-torn country which was impoverished further by a closed economy back in the 1980s. My mother was determined to do anything... View Details

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Minority Students | MBA

Foundation The LunaCap Foundation assists Mexicans (born anywhere in the world) or current active military or U.S. Armed Forces veterans with the cost of an MBA education. Candidates will be selected based on performance but, more importantly, their desire to View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

join a groundbreaking urban redevelopment project and went home to Halifax in 1966. After the real estate aspect of the project was well along, I returned to the marine portion of my roots and became the first employee (and operations manager) of Halifax’s... View Details

Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

14 Oct 2014
News

A man on a mission

and physics at Cleveland community colleges at night while his career took off at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center during the day. “I felt such an obligation to those teachers who had helped me, and one way I could pay them back... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni Are Integral to HBS

chairman of Metis Capital Partners in Lagos, Nigeria, who also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the... View Details

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

disability. How did that experience give you empathy and how do you practice that in your professional life? CF: I think a lot of times after I went blind, and I was first walking around with my guide dog, people would come up to me and... View Details

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Nathalie du Preez

Finding leadership she can take home Nathalie suspected that with its emphasis on leadership and the diversity of its student body, HBS would give her the multidimensional insight she sought. Her first visit confirmed her expectations.... View Details

26 Mar 2020
Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

Times of Crises We are all inundated on social media with strong opinions during these unprecedented times, and I was finding it challenging to capture tactical talking points to share with my peers. My prior experience in the VC industry View Details

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

I'm thinking about whether it is virtual teaching, remote working, hybrid classrooms, welcoming students back to campus, on every one of those occasions, our community has responded magnificently. It is this community and its commitment... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Turning Point: Network Effects

I’ve lost several folks you never would have thought would be candidates for depression. One example is a friend of mine, a former F-18 squadron commander with all kinds of crazy degrees, a beautiful family, and a pedigree that went back... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)

22 Nov 2024
News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Jul 2024
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Leading the Way

overcome the challenges of under-resourced schools and limited opportunity. He went to college, Wall Street, and HBS, and started his own investment firm, Southwest Harvard Group, before returning home to give View Details

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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

interpretations of policy." Simultaneously, she volunteered once a week with Junior Achievement, "teaching the fundamentals of banking to high-school boys and girls who wanted to learn how banks work." Moving from back... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

well understand that you don't know what you're doing. Christensen: If you look back in history at companies that have successfully launched new disruptive-growth businesses, with only a couple of exceptions they were run by the founder.... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

16 Nov 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

resident healers. A board member at Blue Deer for 10 years, Sprinkles offers healing sessions, hosts monthly fires, and heads up an initiation program for young men. “I’m 67, and one of the ways I connect with the culture that raised me is View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

Photos by Jeff Moore Conventional wisdom says expertise gained through years of experience is the key to business success. Conventional wisdom has never met Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975). Freeman’s unfettered approach to life—“Well, I’ll View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

11 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

for?HelloFresh started recruiting on campus last Fall (Oct. 2015). We came back this Spring and successfully found two amazing HBS students that joined us in Toronto and NYC this past summer. We’re mainly looking for people who are... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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About | Harvard Business School

exhibition program. The outdoor sculptures will serve as a complement to the architecture of the School, representing the merging of enduring tradition with innovative thought and contemporary business practice. It was high time for me to View Details

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