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Andrew Pratt
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? In my previous life, I worked on making spacecraft and satellites – aerospace has always been a passion of mine. When I came to Harvard, I wanted to come at it from a different angle. In the View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
document we’re all typing into at the same time. The head writer picks the ones we’ll talk about some more—and we might influence the select by saying, ‘This idea would be great if we also did this.’ From there our picks go to the field... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
vacations, but they won’t necessarily cancel their season tickets.” When Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003) first took a job managing Yankee Stadium for the New York City Parks Department in the 1990s, nearly every professional playing field in... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
The winners of the 1996 R. Hugh Uhlmann Award for outstanding research in the field of agribusiness have a truly global perspective -- all three recipients are international students. For their prize-winning project, Peter Baeza... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
about the field of manufacturing, Union describes the pure pleasure of making a tangible, useful product. “Manufacturing offers so many analytical and intellectual challenges,” she adds. “It’s extremely satisfying to build a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
Do future MBAs emerge from the womb with business card in hand? Greet their preschool pals with a firm, not fishy, handshake? HBS alumni so frequently mention the lifelong benefits of connections made at Soldiers Field that I’ve always... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
us are suffering in silence. We don’t want anyone to know we’re feeling a little less than certain—or even vulnerable,” she says. Skeete Tatum speaks in personal terms about Landit, in part because her own experience inspired the idea for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
and the NFL Players Association to assist players in preparing for the transition to their post-football careers. (A similar program was also conducted in the spring at the Wharton School.) “The idea is to help veteran NFL players be as successful off the View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Download Thomas J. Tierney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, San Francisco, California 1976 Earns BA, Economics, University of California, Davis 1976 Joins Bechtel International, Algeria, Field... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Brooke. “We wanted to get involved in something more entrepreneurial,” he explains. “We saw the restaurant business as a service industry that would be successful based on the organization's productivity, focus, and sense of purpose, rather than a proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
your field? Guram: “If you’re interested in health care, take all the HBS health care courses. There are, I think, two schools of thought on this: 1) Don’t take any health care classes because you’ll be in this field for the rest of your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
postcollege when I was working at Lotus Development, creating interactive marketing demos for various products. I really liked the experience of getting my hands dirty working with designers and producers. And I got lucky, because I met a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
a quiet smile from my father, I suspect. More recently I’ve written 2 books, 10 peer-reviewed articles for scholarly journals, and more than 30 opinion pieces and essays in the fields of education and human development. Recently, I helped... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
them from the field to the sanctity of that moment, the sacredness of that moment, is generally just a quick prayer and an acknowledgment that we're blessed to be in these roles, and to have these opportunities. But then, we also pivot... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
high-level policy issues with senior executives or technical nuances of research with fellow academics. His influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound." Jaikumar was highly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
“I was 95 percent sure I wanted to be a general manager. But after I got to HBS I recognized that you can stay in the field you love and be an academic at the same time,” says Gartenberg, adding that HBS professor Tarun Khanna made a... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
leadership skills to work as trustees. In fact, each of the people interviewed for this article works with a board member (or several) who is an HBS graduate. Witness John McCarter's answer to how he ended up at the Field Museum: "Two... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
with the MBA, I’ll be better equipped to identify promising new ideas in the field and help bring them to fruition in clinical practice.” What has your experience as a first-year resident been like? “For the... View Details