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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is primarily View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 08 Jul 2016
- News
So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?
you’re doing. And it's important to you to kind of control your career narrative. It's like, “Here's why I did this and here's therefore what I learned and here's what I'm looking for.” READ MORE View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
Sara de Zárraga (left) and Quinn Fitzgerald When they met at HBS, Quinn Fitzgerald and Sara de Zárraga (both MBA 2017) shared their experiences as survivors of assault—and realized they wanted to create a tool to prevent future... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the birth control pill." The lesson... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
principles we espouse for taking control of one's life - steps such as being proactive, putting first things first, and establishing clearly what you want to achieve. The universality of these principles resonates with people. Which habit... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
opportunities with environmental benefits. With decades of experience in investment banking with Dillon Read in New York City—but little experience with environmental work—Cody joined the World Bank as its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
O’Kelly’s mind, as is, ironically, maintaining balance in her own life. “Amid ups and downs, I do feel like I’m achieving it,” says O’Kelly, who declined venture capital funding so that she could maintain more control over how quickly the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball team and wanted nothing more in life than to play baseball... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
Merchant When Ken Merchant arrived to begin teaching at HBS in 1978, he knew there was no other place he wanted to be. “At the time, HBS was the Mecca for the subject area about which I wanted to do research — management control systems,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
and opportunities it would pose,” said McFarlan, a student in the first class Dearden taught at the School. Dearden chaired the Control faculty from 1968 to 1970 and served three times as head of the required first-year MBA course in that... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
entrepreneurial," says O'Donnell, "and the idea of being independent has always been important to me." The son of a policeman, O'Donnell attended Harvard College on a scholarship and started a successful student housing service while he was a student at HBS. Steve... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and then B happens, but can I actually... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the impressive power of breath View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
Dean Kim B. Clark called him "a pioneer in turning the classroom into a transformational experience and in preparing leaders for both business and society. An extraordinary teacher and human being," Clark continued, "he made an indelible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
topics, but I also looked for practical expertise. Who has more experience with snow removal than the mayor of Buffalo, New York, for instance? Who has changed more diapers than the parents of sextuplets? So the experts actually wrote... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
growing. Coady’s work has included projects involving lemurs in Madagascar; the Kayapo indigenous people who control millions of hectares in Para State, Brazil; a 400-nest site of blue herons on the Potomac River; and the prairies west of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
research on the integration of computers into the manufacturing process led to the development of a "minimalist" architecture for manufacturing. His framework emphasizes the elimination of process disruptions and the mini- mization of View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
leverage the HBS network—it's amazing and we're all here for you!” Gaglani: “I balanced HBS coursework with running my company, which was challenging but a great way to apply principles I was learning in the classroom to real issues I had some View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
the most? I’ve taken different skills from different places. I spent some time at a small entrepreneurial venture in Dallas, where I had hands-on experience in manufacturing, supply chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel... View Details