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- 25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
of his departure to attend HBS, Weeks was called into the office of CEO Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962). As Weeks tells it, Houghton, whose storied family had run the company since 1851, asked him to return to Corning after HBS. “I shook his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
material wealth, but we believe it also leads to a powerful contribution to familial wealth, country wealth, and ultimately, wealth for the continent,” says Royster, cofounder of Maarifa Education, a pan-African education holding company.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Stanford Business School. Johnson’s father, also called Pitch, was a track coach who participated in the 1924 Olympic Games as a high hurdler and passed a love of running down to his namesake. The family... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
advertising waste and noise." Howe likes to take a big-picture view of business problems, probably because of his training in economics. That process began early — at the family dinner table, he recalls —... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
impact fund connected to Oxfam in the United Kingdom, says she recently helped another WomenExecs member professionalize her profile. “She had recovered from breast cancer, was in a full-time role, and was also doing elder care for an ailing View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
difference every day, and I knew I had the skills to do it," says Tepper Singer, who is married to section-mate Dan Singer. "Not that many people have come to the non-profit field with business training." Her View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
living. I’ll put up lights, and at the end of every day, I’ll say “I did that” and I’ll be proud,’ ” Cataldo told the Boston Business Journal (June 13–19, 2003). Of her five years spent working union jobs by day and attending trade school... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
of his 50th Reunion that he hopes will be focused on the intersection of business and life sciences. McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business skills... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Morrell Tell me about your own childhood—how was the idea inspired by your own experience? We're from Lebanon originally, and my family left there when I was 6, while the country was in the middle of war. We literally left on a boat and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
how business is done in Colorado and to make it the leader in responsible business practice,” she says. “There are more than 1,800 Certified B Corporations, in more than 130 industries and 50 countries.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
in background and perspective. Despite the obvious passion, everyone seemed to get along, pulling together around the common purpose of making exceptional family films. “There was this sense of community, this unbelievable sense of ‘we... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
temporary shelter). In 2019, there were about 3,700. “But one person on the streets is one too many,” says Hudson. Hudson has one particular person in mind when she said that: Uncle Billy, her mother’s brother. When Hudson was a child, Billy would call the View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
Tom (MBA 1969) and Patricia Barry It was a given in Tom Barry’s family that, having done well in math and science in high school, he would pursue a degree in a related field as a student at Yale. But during his junior year, the Ohio... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
Augustine Heard & Co., 1840–1877” offers a vivid account of a family trading firm’s rise and fall against the backdrop of a rapidly changing socioeconomic landscape. The exhibit will be on display through October 27. "View of the Hongs at... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and uniforms, he would have a better life. And for 10 years, that’s what the family did. But after all that time and thousands of rupees they didn’t have, that family got failure. Failure from teachers like... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
obesity is contagious: If my family and friends are obese, the likelihood of me being obese is much higher. Later studies refuted that claim because of the inherent problem of homophily, which simply means that birds of a feather flock... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
Chicago in 1952. His biggest risk was putting me in charge of the New York office in 1981, when I was 27 years old. In five or six years, that office grew from 12 employees to 100. I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Part of what keeps me going is that my View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next... View Details