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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
available—even before the pandemic. That got even tighter this year and when you add the holiday season and the vaccine, it’s a three-layer cake of nasty. The one silver lining is that air passenger travel is way down and some of those... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as successful as the company's "his-and-hers" holiday gift offerings... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
Scaling Up at Five Below
(photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) (photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) It’s the holiday season and emoji merchandise is flying off the shelves—especially poop emoji (sorry). Chalk it up to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Bankable Trust
Florida high school and at Harvard College. And now her music is furthering her academic outreach efforts. Last fall, Harris released a holiday CD, "Carla's First Christmas." All proceeds from its sale are benefiting not only her... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
’Tis the season for bowl games and playoffs! If you’re stuck at midfield on your shopping list with the clock winding down, The Complete Handbook of Coaching Wide Receivers would make a great Hail Mary holiday gift. The treatise’s author... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently announced election day as a paid holiday on LinkedIn. “People... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
told me I had been tapped for advancement and to go home over the holiday break, pull it together, and think about what I might want to do. When I came back, I told her I was leaving—because people needed to know how to get off the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
Last December, David Wilkins (MBA 1990) admired the brilliant skyline of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with its color-changing buildings and holiday lighting. “I love when nighttime comes,” the former investment banker told the Rocky... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
about vacationing and holiday merrymaking have been instrumental in shaping the modern travel and leisure industry. (Not the least of its contributions has been the introduction of the all-inclusive, prepaid, hassle-free View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
and class notes. These services and programs offer something for everyone. Please take the time to investigate what works best for you, and let us know how we can continue to keep you in contact with each other and with the School. Best wishes for a happy and healthy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
It’s become cliché. You go to a holiday party or a cocktail party, and people are like, “Oh, you know, I’m starting a podcast.” But that does make me worry, from a supply-and-demand and an advertiser equilibrium perspective. Are there... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
women I knew growing up thought that staying at the Holiday Inn was roughing it. But Joan was different.” Asked for his secret to longevity, Berkley cites exercise and healthy genes as primary factors. Before the age of modern medicine,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
noted, Cordero started GradSave, an online college savings registry that makes it possible for family and friends to contribute directly to a child's 529 plan or savings account. Parents can send digital reminders of the account's existence as a birthday or View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
nearly 75,000 patrons in the United States and abroad, and produced a performance and global simulcast of an opera, Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, that featured robots. In Fort Worth, he’ll be co-leading the search for a new music director, in addition to... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
interviewed on the CBS Early Show about holiday tipping in a recession. In no-nonsense, rapid-fire style, the neatly-coiffed brunette whipped through the many sticky wickets that can plague a job-hunting MBA, answering perennial questions... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
was a managing director at the IOD) and to picking up the pace with his photography. “I use every holiday and most weekends,” Main Wilson says, describing how he manages to squeeze it all in. “I don’t golf or go to the pub. My idea of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
team was down a body. But just as important, he threw himself into the lifestyle, hoping to better understand what makes Eddyline’s customers so passionate about the products. A novice kayaker before, Holley says he’s now hooked. Asked if he’d spent any time on the... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones