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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I'll have a bad day; then I'll recall when one of the diving team drowned and you realize that the fact chocolate-chip cookies haven't sold well isn't that serious." —Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993), CEO of the UK-based Domino's Pizza Group... View Details
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- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
four-person business and her responsibilities to investors. “There was no playbook for that,” recalls Marrone, now an investor at Pivotal Ventures. “I wasn't quite sure who to turn to.” Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) and Nicole Wee (MBA 2018)... View Details
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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
times, and I had given the finest presentation he had ever heard,” recalls Murphy. “That cold call—and HBS—set me on a path to building my self-confidence and developing the skills to succeed in business.” After graduating as a Baker... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- News
A Novel Approach
directly beneficial to the School because it trickles down in a lot of ways," says Lyle, the Section J cochair for the Class of 2012 Gift Campaign. She also recalls experiencing classes in which the professors encouraged students to... View Details
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Remembering 9/11 at HBS
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Jeff Immelt’s night table—Railway Age, Aviation Week, Broadcasting & Cable—represents just a few of the industries encompassed by General Electric, the company founded by Thomas Edison where Immelt is entering his ninth year as chairman and CEO. “I’m a voracious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
would be auctioned at Sotheby's in 1997. "I started to think about what the dinosaur could mean for the Field, in terms of education, research, and visitorship," recalls McCarter, who took two of his top scientists to the Sotheby's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Morgan Stanley and after launching an adventure-tour start-up, Ransom cofounded Wildfire, a social media marketing company acquired last year by Google for a reported $350 million. Discussing her thoughts on leadership and the culture at Wildfire (where she remains... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
What’s On?
longer and shorter, Kilar added, “There’s already something better than the thirty-second ad.” He noted that viewer recall of ads is higher when Hulu shows fewer commercials, so that Hulu is able to charge more for those ads... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Farm Boy
life’s trials and embraced its successes with perspective, kindness, and humor.” On the challenge of recalling long-ago events without contemporaneous notes, Jeppson said, “I find when I am writing, my memory comes back. It was a lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has guided her work as an entrepreneur... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
and hit the road this summer. Alaoui recalls the work MBAxAmerica did for Sebastian Jackson, owner of the Detroit barbershop Social Club Grooming Co. Jackson wanted to donate hair shavings to accelerate compost for urban renewal projects.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
d'Arbeloff says. "In the small-world category, all these strands connecting around this one film—it's a very exciting moment." D'Arbeloff, who runs Roadside with his business and life partner, Howard Cohen, recalled the moment—rather, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
2020 Vision
When it comes to setting personal goals, Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA ’98) aims high: Her ambition is to become, like another notable HBS alum, President of the United States, most likely in 2020. (For those with a similar aspiration and timetable, View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Paolo M. Pellegrini, MBA 1985 & Henrietta Jones
first Italian minicomputer was developed,” recalls Pellegrini, who now lives in New York City. “In high school, I had summer internships at various software development companies, and I credit those experiences with a big portion of my... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Ogden, who grew up in a working-class family, recalls the power of his own education, leading up to his time at HBS, where the idea of paying it forward was part of the School’s DNA. “There’s something in the genetic code of the School... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
People Watching
finance department before moving to Sports Illustrated, where she spent ten years before accepting the top spot at People. At the time, the magazine was just a black-and-white “grocery store” publication. “Nobody else wanted the People job,” View Details