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- 01 Sep 2004
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Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball team and wanted nothing more in life than to play baseball... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
therapeutic-feeding clinics or working with machete-amputee victims. But with our resources, we can respond with some level of support. That’s what makes this a great job — you feel like you can save a child’s View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
the institute will work closely with other academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Some of the ISC's major projects include Baltic Rim Competitiveness, the Innovation Index, the Global Competitiveness Report, Environmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
Making a point: Professor Joe Lassiter leads a class on developing and evaluating business plans. On the field, they can be the fiercest of competitors. Off the field, thirty veteran NFL players teamed up to work toward a common goal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
you don’t get to do very much.” Number of work trips Down Under: 62 and counting. “When you think about it—and it’s probably best not to—I’ve spent about four months of my life on a plane to Australia.” That... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
large book on the life and work of the late Stanley Meltzoff, a noted U.S. commercial artist, has nearly 190 color plates showing works ranging from illustrations for the Armed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
have not taught managers and marketers we have a problem, and so, if you think that more data will solve the problem of what is not in the data, then we are misleading people in a serious way. How would cars work as an example of a job... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
weekend work crew. "I remember being out there on the first day of framing," he says. "We went from slab to entirely completed walls in eight hours." In 2012, nearly 25 years after pounding nails and hanging drywall in that first house,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Courtesy Rahkeem Morris Rahkeem Morris (MBA 2018) spent the first 10 years of his work life as an hourly wage earner, moving from one minimum wage job to the next, often unable to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
thinking, “Wow! That’s really different from my current work environment.” After school I will remember what life was like here and how I learned to prioritize my time as far as what’s important to me. Tyler... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
Schooner (MBA 1983) and a group of social work students who were all working at two nonprofits—the Women’s Center and the Peace Neighborhood Center—in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The questions: “Why do men rape... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Management, is now at work on a guide to life at home. She invites HBS advice givers or seekers to visit her Web site at www.theexpertsguideto.com. Is there less intergenerational teaching in society today?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the Normandy Landings––and today’s wars—give proof of life or only of the struggle? The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy By Robert F.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
earnings grew 23 percent and debt was reduced. The life of any CEO of a multibillion-dollar company involves long hours, and given that Anglo American has a presence in 43 countries, Carroll spends more than half of her time traveling. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
MORE Polli matches characteristics to career paths on the Skydeck podcast Polli launched Pymetrics in 2013 to fill this gap. A PhD in neuropsychology who spent a decade as a researcher at Harvard and MIT, Polli started working on the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
those markets and potentially crash the economy. “We really want to protect the people who interact with, and rely on, the markets,” says Jones. “That could be a veteran, a teacher, or anyone who has their life savings invested in a 401K... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley