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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
bankrupt. After several decades of impressive economic progress, Korea faced the humiliating prospect of seeing its credit rating drop to B2, below investment grade. In a stunning demonstration of national unity, a public gold-collecting... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
player,” he says, citing Amazon and Alibaba; Apple and Samsung; Twitter and Weibo. “America has just 320 million people. Yes, GDP per capita is higher, but Asia is growing by leaps and bounds. If you localize and execute a proven US concept, the runway is far greater.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
regardless of cost. Recounting his early years in this quixotic business, Jones notes, "When I first came to this area, the prospects were not encouraging. No one was growing premium grapes, and I was warned that the climate might be too... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
the immediate south lies a less glamorous prospect — several of the city's grittier neighborhoods, including blue-collar Dorchester, where Cronin grew up. To Cronin, the memories of his Dorchester days are as constant as the view from his... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
managing factors that shape the way firms introduce advanced technologies to existing and prospective markets, and the process by which innovation transforms—or displaces—companies or entire industries. He first introduced the notion of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium Group, as reported by Axios.com,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
opportunity too great to help families whose struggles she understands all too well. She remains motivated by the community support she sees for her work and the prospect of perfecting a model for affordable housing investment that she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Desperate Sections
In April, this year’s HBS Show, An Offer You Can’t Refuse, explored in song and dance what happens when, in a metaphorical sense, entire HBS sections face the prospect of wearing cement overshoes and sleeping with the Charles River... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
New Career Tools for Alumni
Ready for your next career move? Present your experience and qualifications to prospective employers through the Alumni Career Hub’s Résumé Database. Designed to facilitate the hiring process, the database allows recruiters to identify... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
First Students Accepted to Deferred Admission Program
will begin the MBA Program in 2011 as members of the Class of 2013. The 2+2 Program “contradicts the conventional — and incorrect — notion that prospective students must have worked for five or six years before applying to the School,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now
operations to take advantage of the opportunities, and skirt the dangers raised by the prospect of climate change,” Reinhardt says. Each company must evaluate its use of energy in its own context. In some cases, other firms or governments... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration
His counterpart at Stanford Business School, Dean Robert Joss, added, "The worldwide need for management skills has never been greater, and the demand for innovative approaches to management education is high. The partnership will offer good View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
used to be a one-season event,” Wilkins noted. “Now most customers want to leave lighting up year-round because it signifies a special event.” Wilkins is excited by the prospect that more American cities may come to look like Hong Kong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Opens Shanghai Office with Harvard China Fund
programs for prospective and current students, create closer ties between Chinese universities and Harvard, and deepen connections to Harvard alumni in the region. For HBS, the office will house a researcher affiliated with the School’s... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A talent scout for tomorrow’s Africa
In his role as vice president of admissions for the Africa Business Club at HBS, Olujimi Williams (MBA 2015) does more than just acquaint prospective students with the School; he serves as a link to his native continent for any candidate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
future benefits. "Students' evaluations of their educational experience in the January cohort and their prospects in the job market have been consistently on par with those of students in the September cohort," Kester said. "The system... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
from the office building/landlord. The benefit to the landlord was an additional amenity to retain their existing tenants and to better market vacant space to prospective tenants. The employer and landlord contributions would help defray... View Details