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- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
their industry and not be seduced in the short term by the extreme competitiveness of the investment banking and securities marketplace. I've seen firsthand how that competitiveness can undermine the best intentions of high-ranking industry executives. In 1995, I... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
country helping low-income kids beat the odds,” he explains. “I didn’t plan a teaching career, but I loved that job.” Often Jesuit-supported, the Nativity model offers low-income middle school students the advantages of small classes and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
(MBA ’01), a 34-year-old, well-connected political neophyte and the only Iraqi war veteran running for Congress as a Republican. “Having a guy who was on the ground and had an extremely active role in Iraq, and who came back and made a lot of money in View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
about how his expertise recently found another, unexpected outlet when he was called on to help save a small business that helped a community cope with its grief and honor their dead for over 50 years. READ... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
business I've ever operated," says Whiteside, surveying a herd of Aberdeen Angus and Red Devon cattle from the cab of a 1992 Ford pickup with an odometer topping 143,000 miles. "For one thing, it involves nature, which you can't control.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
attempt at starting his own company. Because venture capitalists were unwilling to fund travel businesses in the wake of the 1973 fuel crisis, Belkin financed his startup with an American Express card and View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
design — a career as varied as the teams she assembled. Fresh out of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Ross started her own highly successful jewelry business on the strength of a $60,000 purchase order written on the spot by a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
is energetic and vigorous. His gaze is intense, and the legendary steel-trap mind is still in evidence. “My HBS experience was a major event in my life,” he eagerly volunteers, gripping his visitor’s hand. “It opened my eyes to the role of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
alumni or students interested in launching startups? "Definitely take advantage of the HBS network. Some of my early stage angel investors and advisers were HBS professors who were incredibly helpful during early development. Early on, I also worked out of the HBS... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
Development. Sectionmates also broke into small groups for a paying-it-forward exercise in general reciprocity, during which they could ask for and receive assistance from classmates as they embarked on their new paths. Advice from alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
important not to forget the humans “on the other side” at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. —Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit and author of the upcoming... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details