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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
senior partner at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart. He offers advice on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, negotiating compensation, cultivating a mentor, and knowing when to change jobs or industries. Sunset... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
development. After graduation from HBS, Dillon will start a job at Apax Partners, a private-equity firm in London. Once she has more experience, she dreams of launching or buying a business in Ireland. (Her heart is still in her homeland,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
That's just my persistence that I have. And so I kind of knew, there's no way I'm going to stop. Morrell: Now, Francis, you're finishing your tour of Africa. Tell me when it is you leave Africa. Tapon: Should be in September of 2018. Morrell: And that will be the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
vis-à-vis managers. The situation has changed in pretty fundamental ways. I know people who are still beating up on boards, saying boards aren’t doing enough. But the reality is that in general boards have gotten a better handle on their companies now than they did... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
job which he thought he should do.” (US National Archives) Established by presidential order in June 1942, the OSS was charged with collecting and analyzing intelligence and running counterespionage missions, a predecessor to today’s CIA.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
even in 1955, the system was not ‘entirely satisfactory.’ ” Integral to these report-writing courses was the corps of red pencil–toting young women who were hired to assess students’ papers. It was Copeland himself who “in desperation” hired the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
itch. This year, for the first time, the program expands to four individuals whose lives and experiences show what different roads the entrepreneurial journey can take. “Students are hungry for the kind of perspective they can get from... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark that became the Voice Project.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
easier is if you've spent your life living below your means. And so many of us don't do that. And we buy big mortgages and buy more than we need, and really the easiest thing to do is pay yourself first and live below your means and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
Chinese-American and the Eastern heritage has been a big part of how I've grown up. But truthfully, April, what really made this relevant was about 20 years ago when I came out of HBS class of 1997, I was in my first View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
the 1950s were purchased under this process called contract buying. My grandparents had to buy a home this way. They first bought their home and they were not allowed to get a mortgage. And so for the first... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
institutions - like the Bulletin itself - are enduring outgrowths of its solid foundation. Women in the Bulletin While the first women in the Bulletin sold cigarettes in colorfully drawn advertisements in the 1930s, an occasional article... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
especially given the substantial investment the students are making in terms of their own time and money. For all three stages, we are deeply grateful to HBS alumni who generously support our financial aid programs as they pay it forward to the next generation of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
That’s my philosophy. I think about all the angst around deciding about the first job to take, post-HBS. It’s nothing compared to the decision of who to marry! You can do many things to change your... View Details