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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
themselves when you least expect them. What you have to be willing to do is take the risk.” In 1983, Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi (JD/MBA 1979) was working as a corporate lawyer when First Boston asked the Nigerian native to provide consulting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
'89) Steven L. Glick (MBA '89) of Greenwich, Connecticut, was a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and headed the e-Client effort at the firm's institutional e-commerce group, CSFBNext. He was attending a conference on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
companies to recruit qualified managers. “We help people who are looking to return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, the high GDPs, and the need for management talent, but who aren’t sure how to go about that process,” says Igun, who... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
was unable to get to Boston by the date specified (commercial air flight was not yet available), my father recounted how he had gone to Harvard on my behalf, taking two days off from his small business to travel by train from Altoona,... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
accidental, as Khan relates in his TED Talk from 2011. TED Talk: I was an analyst at a hedge fund and I was in Boston and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans remotely. And I started putting the first YouTube videos up, really just as... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
what you can gain from them, but principally because of how much you can learn. Enjoy the ride! GEETA AIYER Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985), founder and President, Boston Common Asset Management, Boston, Massachusetts There are many traits a woman... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
make your choice. There is no perfect answer." Hunt's blunt advice, which was reported in the Boston Globe, may well resonate with the significant number of HBS alumnae who have struggled with the difficulties posed by following a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Black-owned businesses in the Boston area. The course is cotaught by Senior Lecturers Archie L. Jones, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Henry W. McGee, and uses case discussions, presentations from subject experts, and hands-on consulting to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the company was worth more than $400 million — yielding a return on its original investment of more than 70,000 percent. It was the young venture capital industry’s first home run, and it helped make the Route 128 area outside Boston a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
it, it was the purpose of it. Definitely a highlight morning.” From Master Plan to Blueprints Digging In: The Spanglers join Dean Kim Clark, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and others in the groundbreaking for the campus center, designed by... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
we typically imagine. In dozens of columns on these topics published in the Boston Globe, Hessan has upended common political wisdom. Presented together for the first time as part of this book, these themes reveal a unique perspective on... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
model, to pick the right market to innovate in, will determine to great extent my success. The Bolden story is all about community. He probably couldn't have been successful in Boston or New York. New Orleans was an open community. It had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts and travel to New York to see the Philharmonic. It was still a hobby then, albeit an important one. But when he got into the working world, he found he was spending more time analyzing scores than... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
of organizations. Topics covered include the role of a leader, how to handle layoffs, and cost reduction. APRIL 22 Several Boston area hospitals and care facilities have received shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) with help... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
to Boston and launched our first BollyX classes. Partnering with boutique gyms, national gym chains, and dance studios, we quickly found that not only was there a tremendous appetite for Bollywood workout classes among fitness consumers,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Vanessa Royle In the end, Ilana Springer Borkenstein and Eric Gruskin, from the New York region, took the Grand Prize of $75,000 with their startup, M7 Health, an innovative nursing-workforce management platform. The Runner Up prize of $25,000 went to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows... View Details