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- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever really heard a View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
In a speech he delivered the day before his graduation from HBS, Class Day speaker John Crowley (MBA '97) observed, "In time, we will all acquire a certain amount of responsibility and power. I encourage each of us to use that power... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
speech in which he thanked a number of people for their support over the years, singling out his parents for special mention. "A printer by trade, my father taught me the importance of prototyping," Bricklin noted. "If you run a printing... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
(MBA ’76) closed out the formal program with a plenary speech on the future of securities regulation. Like Cox, other speakers and panelists included HBS alumni whose careers have encompassed both private- and public-sector service. As it... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
one's self to that place of actionable optimism. Bonita: Sadly, my father passed away when I was a freshman in college, so you can imagine just the notion of never giving up and having grit. But it was through divine intervention. In my mid-career, I found a View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Bob Vanourek (MBA 1966) (Motivational Press Inc.) Vanourek has selected poems, prose or speech passages, and curious verse, each example with insights into leadership. He follows these pearls with engaging commentary from his own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, endorsed Edwards and criticized Taylor for not offering specifics on key issues. The News described Taylor as a “rookie who’s long on cash and slash-and-burn campaigning but short on answers.” In a speech... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
specializes in speech recognition software. "That's proven true for our company time and time again. We decided to raise money from a prominent computer maker because of the credibility and opportunities such an association would provide,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Andy Grove persona. In 1995, just a few weeks after he completed treatment for prostate cancer, he gave a speech before a global audience. It was a difficult presentation featuring live demos. But it went so smoothly, you would have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Gift of Gab
For the second year running, Jin (“PJ”) Kim (MBA 2006) won the HBS Public Speaking Competition. Kim and seven others were selected as finalists from a preliminary group of nearly forty MBA students after each delivered a four-minute, impromptu View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Campaign Season
Photos by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer On September 21, Harvard University officially launched The Harvard Campaign with a series of events, featuring a speech by Harvard President Drew Faust and "The Future of Knowledge"... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- News
A Passionate Patron and Collector
HBS MBA, and how the arts factored into his academic experience. “When I was 3, 4 years old, I would draw and paint,” Van Lee tells the interviewer. “In elementary school, I was in the glee club. In high school, I was in speech and drama.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
Photos by Susan Young Photos by Susan Young An Instagram-worthy sculpture in the shape of a cartoon speech bubble—and large enough to double as a bench—is one of four new campus art installations, on loan from prominent contemporary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Celebrating Women at HBS
MBA Program living on campus by 1970. (The exhibit can be viewed online at www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wbe/.) Planning is wrapping up for the W50 Summit, taking place on campus April 4–5. The two-day event will focus on accelerating the advancement of women leaders and will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
of Time Inc., delivered keynote speeches challenging the notion that there’s only one path to the top. “Let’s blow up the phrase ‘work-life balance,’” Fudge told an audience of some 850 participants gathered in Burden Auditorium. “Balance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
Joshua Margolis (Organizational Behavior), Professor André Perold (Finance), and Associate Professor Jan Rivkin (Strategy) were the recipients of this coveted, student-voted accolade. Student speaker Dan Heath (MBA ’04) followed with an amusing View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
says he never forgot one speech given by then-Dean John McArthur. “He encouraged us to embrace our community in a significant way,” Downing recalls. “He said we had been uniquely blessed and that we needed to reach out where we live. That... View Details