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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
In the middle of her second year at HBS, Ilene Lang sat in the MBA Program Office trying to convince an administrator to let her take a documentary film course at MIT for credit. As she made her pitch, then Associate Dean of Student... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Years ago, while Amram Shapiro (MBA 1978) and a team of researchers were busy creating the probability database at the heart of his new compendium, The Book of Odds, the daughter of a friend sat in on one of their weekly data reviews. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
next morning, they seemed to be talking about the same story, but now they were reporting from Minnesota. When I realized they were discussing a different case—that of Philando Castile, executed in his car while his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
work on my application to HBS. I was thrilled when I was invited to interview—but nervous. Wearing my lucky tie helped a little bit. Thankfully, those 30 minutes felt more like a conversation, and the interviewer really got to know me personally. Afterward, I View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
sat there listening to the discussion, and it helped me,” Fung relates. “We benefit a lot from sharing our ideas. It reminded me of the good old days when I was a student.” But this time, it was Fung who had something to teach about how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
We’re bringing religion and some very personal terms into it. A whole series of fissures that have sat quiet in this country for a long time can be revived if there isn’t space for moderation. What can be done to bring the country... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
her original dreams of mentorship through book clubs, discussion groups, and adventure clubs, but Girls Group also offers an intensive college prep program that includes college tours, SAT and ACT prep courses, and scholarship... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
contributed to the case discussion, their name was x'ed out. If you got "Bingo," you let the section know by incorporating a nonsense pre-arranged phrase into your verbal contribution, e.g. “This case reminds me of when Humpty Dumpty sat... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA 2005) Avery Shalinee Sharma is one of the world’s top experts on math learning, but when she was in school, she sat in the back row, unsure if she could ever master the subject. Many of us buy into the idea that some people are... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
children be part of the journey has been so meaningful.” Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies; Mayor, New York City, 2002–2013 Honesty and ethics: “When my family sat down for dinner, my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
mission. And as I was walking out of the door my dad looked up and said, son, when you finish firing my manager I expect you to replace him with your manager. And yours better be as good as mine. So as I was on the way back to take care of the job at hand, I stopped in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
Last winter, Sherm Baldwin (HBS '97), six months shy of his thirty-second birthday and a member of the School's new January cohort, sat in Aldrich Hall and awaited the possibility of his first cold-call. While many of his classmates... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
You’ve amassed 182 interviews with leaders all over the world. Where did this project come from? Geoff Jones: Actually, a Chilean shipping entrepreneur sat right here in my office and after hearing me go on about how history matters for... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
As David Linn (MBA 2000) and his wife of five years, Jen Goodman Linn (MBA 1999), sat across a table for two at an outdoor cafe in Manhattan, they looked like any other young couple sharing lunch on a sunny spring day. But there was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Student Interest in Social Enterprise Is on the Rise As I sat in Burden Auditorium on a dreary Sunday back in March, surrounded by upwards of 1,100 students, I wondered whether I was witness to the arrival of a new zeitgeist. The occasion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
unripe peach. Covered in a bright, red, stringy substance that turns out to be mace, the nutmeg seed is dried and ground to form the familiar spice. At the conclusion of the tour, we sat on benches and tasted a variety of just-picked... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
Teachers” (with Professor Tom DeLong, and the session that I sat in on, “Finding Great Cases.” The case in question was Sahlman’s “Dr. John’s Products, Ltd.”, the story of serial entrepreneur John Osher and his quest to invent,... View Details