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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
jungle for four or five days. Kaziranga National Park is a favorite. It’s been one of India’s great success stories for rhino conservation.” Back to top Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic, Inc. Family ties: “My... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved nearly enough to retire. You want... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle,... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
in New York, working with inner-city at-risk youth. He saw a presentation by then-NFTE president Steve Mariotti and was impressed by the organization’s practical curriculum for teaching entrepreneurship. Bhargava and his wife, Aruna, a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
University and was accepted at HBS at age 19. During World War II, Williams survived the sinking of the USS Lexington in the Battle of the Coral Sea and in 1945, as ship’s announcer on the USS Topeka, he read President Truman’s announcement of the dropping of the atom... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
of San Diego’s annual holiday party took place at the home of Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) and his wife Diane Weiss-Wisdom in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, on December 7th. With a Roaring 20s speakeasy theme, guests enjoyed 1920s accessories, a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
affect how I felt about work." Initially taking it all in stride, Piette was back at work on a reduced schedule four days after delivering Zach, working from home and sometimes even taking him and his nanny with her on business trips.... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
turned to his first love—the ocean—for his next adventures, inspired in no small part by his daughter Lily, who was born in 2009 with a rare genetic disorder that has left her severely disabled. “My original idea of a typical retirement... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
feelings and felt really out of place. I can’t say I faced overt racism or sexism—it was more a feeling of being invisible. CLIF DARDEN arrived at HBS having driven across the country from his home in Los Angeles, California. As a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
crazy at school, there was a studio in Somerville [Massachusetts] I would go to and spend two or three hours throwing pottery. It’s been a form of relaxation for me for 50 years. I’m retired now, so I have a lot more time to devote to it.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
years, numerous students and young faculty enjoyed dinner, lively conversation, and encouragement at the Christensens’ home in Lexington.) Christensen earned his MBA from Harvard in 1943 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in Madison, Wisconsin. Nick (AMP... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Rough start: “I remember coming home from the Naval Academy for Christmas leave as a freshman, and my GPA going into finals was a 0.91. But I loved the challenge, and I adapted.” Ahoy there: “My first... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
choice. The audience included retiring CEOs and board members wondering how to give advice in this market, people in mid-career transitions, and recent MBA grads trying to figure out next steps." Kwok says the discussion and subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development of the now male-dominated tech... View Details
Keywords: April White