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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident brought that open-ended plan to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Lifelong Learning To access HBS Working Knowledge, you must have an active Lifelong E-mail Forwarding Address (LEFA) and password, which serve as your log-on IDs for this site. In addition, the LEFA serves... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
spoken publicly before business school, I learned how to articulate a point of view in front of peers—and convince them of the case I was making,” he recalls. After graduating from HBS, McMinn landed in Silicon Valley at Intel, serving as... View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
continue to learn, and to serve our local communities,” Stidman says. In his recorded greetings to the gathering, Dean Datar expressed his gratitude to alumni for being involved with the club and for “giving their time, talent, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
included the owner of a low-performing milk-selling business who was focused on business expansion and the owner of a high-performing fast-food restaurant who wanted to differentiate it in a competitive environment. In their working... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
zero-funds organization that distributes surplus food from restaurants to community members who are food insecure. The focus of a 2018 case study, the organization recently launched #Mission30M, an effort to address the hunger crisis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among ClimaCell’s plans for the future is... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Critics harped that an "elephant" like IBM couldn't dance the quick steps of the new technology. A search was under way for a new CEO, but few—including Lou Gerstner himself—were eager to take on the very public, very risky assignment of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
this was something I was meant to do.” People, People, People After brainstorming restaurant concepts over pizza in Harvard Square, Paul D. Conforti (MBA 1997) and some friends got the idea to open a dessert establishment. When he and... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
organizations, something that coincides with our mission to help nonprofits in our area,” says Calvin Mew (PMD 48, 1984), president of the HBS Club of New York. Indeed, serving their local communities is a primary goal of HBS alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
graduates from working-class families. I helped my parents deliver packages and clean college dorms in Philadelphia. Christine helped her immigrant parents run a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. It was impossible for us to experience... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
(MBA 2002), served as the city’s CFO from 2010 to 2014 after working as an advisor to the mayor and serving in the department of administration and finance. Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004)—now Senior Lecturer in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
guy's trombone. My morning's planned down to the second: quick stop at Kinko's to print out my proposal, quick call to Maura to beg her forgiveness I sent her those Calyx & Corolla flowers, so hopefully... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
materials, articles, and other alumni resources to this client, and introducing the client to our network on a monthly basis,” says Barnett. The Opportunity and Performance Network seeks to serve between three and six client teams each... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of emerging and developed market... View Details