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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
whose $5 million gift funded construction of Harvard Business School, continued to jealously guard his near anonymity. In a rare 1923 interview, he told a reporter, “Business men of America should reduce their talk two-thirds.” Pausing,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and will launch a research-based studio with the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in spring 2023. The studio, says Dlodlo, will focus on urbanism, innovative housing typologies, and new View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm
world’s largest producers of wallboard for the construction industry. Both are active on boards and in their community and are particularly interested in issues related to education, arts and culture, and community improvement. The couple... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Honoring a legacy
to fulfill my parents’ legacy, to honor them in a way that they lived their lives,” Chao says. She is the youngest of Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao’s six daughters, four of whom attended HBS. The Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, currently under... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
suppliers of ancillary home construction products, like cement, paint, and other home fittings. Would this create a unique one-stop shop for construction-related goods, or take Tata Steel further away from its core mission? Dilemmas such... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
one year after construction began on the Science and Engineering Complex in Allston. The inaugural class of 29 students arrived in fall 2018. The program leverages existing HBS and SEAS curricula as well as several new courses designed... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
discussions that you remember years later. It started with a terrific setup by Professor David Thomas, then the realization, little by little, of what the case was truly about, followed by deep lessons in interpretation of data and View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
policeman who loved talking to people, Chiofaro says, "I can talk to anyone in my business, from bankers and politicians to the guys who install the elevators." (In fact, at HBS, while his classmates went off to corporate summer jobs, Chiofaro opted to be a laborer on... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a politicide. Seeking to ensure that communism could never again take root in the archipelago, he constructed a New Order to reverse... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Avenue to the west, more than 12 million square feet of buildings are under construction or planned, with an anticipated population increase to Allston of 40,000. External Relations Update The School's priorities are focused on investing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
At first glance, Hamilton Hall looks the same as it has since the student residence was constructed eighty years ago. The building, home to 72 MBA students, blends seamlessly into the classic Georgian architecture of the HBS campus and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Crowning Achievement
BAZEY: An advocate for burn victims. One day in 1994, Sarah Bazey (OPM 32, 2003), the owner, president, and CEO of Minnesota-based Simplex Construction Supplies, chartered a helicopter for an aerial view of one of her company's projects.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
York Times best-seller list for 27 weeks, he did take on another kind of business adversary, those he saw as laying waste to his beloved Sarasota and to Florida’s environment. In the novel, developers and builders, having recklessly destroyed habitat and cut corners on... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
setting a process for hazard resilience. Administered by UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, I was first to chair its private sector initiative, known as ARISE. As a retired construction CEO and WTC 9-11 survivor, I questioned why... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
a profile of Nisa for which she declined to comment, calling her "mercurial" and cataloging her "tough-as-nails culture." Nathani-Menzies says that Nisa is passionate about the business, but always to a constructive end. "Over the years,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
theory by constructing a measure of overconfidence, using the indicator of when a CEO exercises his or her stock options. She found a strong connection between executives who habitually hold their options longer and continue to buy stock... View Details