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- 11 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
HBS in San Francisco: Get a Recap on West Coast Recruiting
in the Bay Area. The HBS California Research Center and CPD co-hosted a start-up mixer allowing students to network with exciting companies, learn about potential opportunities and listen to a panel of entrepreneurs and VC partners moderated View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
Williams writes: “The surprise celebration was held on an early spring afternoon in 1968 on the tarmac at Logan just as Zschau disembarked from his plane. It was organized by Chandler Daniels, a former member of The Highwaymen (a 1960s... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Canadian Fellowships
fellowships,” says Ralph Barford (MBA 1952), a longtime supporter of HBS and one of the initial leaders of the initiative to raise fellowship funds for Canadian students. “HBS was the making of me. The School made a tremendous difference in my life,” says View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
(CBS: 60 Minutes) (CBS: 60 Minutes) For anyone else, it would be enough—to somehow survive being taken hostage in Yemen. In 1998, Mary Quin (MBA 1988), a senior executive at Xerox and inveterate traveler was touring the conservative Islamic country with a small group.... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) and her inventions have drawn a lot of attention. Former president Bill Clinton said she’s “quite extraordinary, really; if ever there was an innovator, she’s it.” Talk-show host Stephen Colbert called... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
Yaqub: Inspired by HBS field study. Photo courtesy Ammara Yaqub Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
centerpiece of the restoration project, the old Sundowner motel, was once home to “a struggling computer geek named Bill Gates who had a special deal with the Sundowner’s owner for an extended stay” while he tried to raise funds for his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Leadership by Bill George with Peter Sims (Jossey-Bass) Based on research and first-person interviews with 125 top business leaders, Professor of Management Practice George describes how anyone can become an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
Narayandas (photo by Jimmy Ushkurnis) Narayandas (photo by Jimmy Ushkurnis) Das Narayandas, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, was named Senior Associate Dean for External Relations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
the seventh annual Social Enterprise Conference. The daylong event featured a number of panel discussions and two keynote presenters: Jeffrey Swartz, president and CEO of Timberland, the $1.5 billion footwear and outdoor apparel company, and View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
makes sense. They then discuss whether Rihanna represents the future of the world’s largest luxury conglomerate, LVMH. Listen Now! Cold Call Cold Call distills Harvard Business School’s legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
stories and cases drawn from years in the field, Bohmer shows how to manage both modes successfully. Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide by Bill George, Andrew McLean, and Nick Craig (Jossey-Bass)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Thinking Outside the Centerfold
Bacardi, Molson Beer, and Coca-Cola, CPB was named Adweek magazine's Agency of the Year for the Southeast region in 2001. Calling it “a year of maturation,” Hicks explained his firm's success by saying, “We uncovered a depth in the agency... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
Illustration by Neil Webb Illustration by Neil Webb Josh Hoffman-Senn (MBA 2019) and fellow cofounder of LS, Jimmy Pemberton, launched their initial digital toolkit in 2021, after seeing fellow musicians... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
event hosted by the SEI and several student clubs, Whitehead spoke with HBS students at a session titled “John Whitehead: A Life in Leadership,” moderated by HBS professor of management practice View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
(with varying degrees of success, by his own account). Lately, he’s been trying to scale back. “It’s an evolution that’s felt very normal and comfortable,” says Bemis. “There haven’t been any big differences because I’m a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005... View Details