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- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
a really different world," she says, adding that she enjoys theater and seeing friends who work outside the finance world. For the moment she can't imagine living anywhere else -- or doing anything else. "I had no idea when I took this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
of International Management Rawi Abdelal, titled “Dignity, the Populist Backlash, and the War in Ukraine: How to Imagine the Next Global Economy.” According to the club’s president, Raj Patil (OPM 42, 2012), approximately 60 people... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
of the theory you can imagine but never anything practical." Upon graduation, Hoa returned to Hanoi to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Press Center. There, she caught the eye of personnel from Harvard's Institute for... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Stan O’Neal
native. “I find it terribly rewarding and humbling. It is hard for me to imagine anything I’d enjoy more.” O’Neal, named one of the “25 Most Powerful People in Business” by Fortune magazine this year, joined Merrill in 1986 as director of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Nations’ Human Development Report in 1996, Ramirez may not have imagined himself attending to the details of running the largest movie theater chain in Latin America. Yet, he relished the challenge. “Learning about the business world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
observed. In addition, a number of my colleagues are imagining inviting faculty who are interested in teaching our materials to observe classes virtually. We see opportunities to reach many more leaders than ever before so they too can... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
percentage they offset. So sometimes that might be 100%, sometimes it might be 80%. On average, the maximums are the limits that folks have set on their subscriptions cover 75% of their emissions. MT: Wow, that's really interesting. So in a way $25 strikes me as low... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
someone else’s shoes. He shows across 25 studies with more than 2,800 people that imagining the world through someone else’s eyes leads us to inaccurate judgments. What helps us to be more accurate is what he calls “perspective getting,”... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
opportunities will be an alpha generator, likely the ultimate alpha generator, in the years to come. Sarah Keohane Williamson (MBA 1989) Chief Executive Officer, FCLTGlobal Climate is the New Digital BIO A digital strategy today is a core element of any business. View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
of new companies rising, but it’s hard today to imagine the handful of giants that loom so tall over the tech world allowing themselves to go the way of VisiCalc or Lotus. And the more wealth they accrue to buy into new technologies,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
interest — on this mostly Republican $10 trillion debt, up from slightly less than $1 trillion when Reagan took office, is equivalent to about 40 percent of all the personal income taxes Americans pay each year. Imagine what would happen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria
they will be solved when people with expertise in a wide range of areas—from artificial intelligence to human behavior to medicine to finance—collaborate, each learning from the others as their collective imaginations coalesce into... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009) served as assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in 2014-15, where she helped to correct mismanagement problems that plagued the agency. “I can’t View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
questions, presenting unique strategies and concrete steps useful for handling the growing number of giants in our personal and professional lives. The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America’s Most View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
South Africa Explorer: January 2005 South Africa photos See our photo archive of past Alumni Travel programs Imagine spending New Year’s Eve in the bush of South Africa, tables decked out in white linen, dinner cooked over an open fire... View Details