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- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Why were 253 people from all walks of life and parts of the globe pursuing academic work in teams in the Shad Hall fitness center in the middle of January? They were members of the HBS Class of 1997 January... View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air to wirelessly power a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
her bachelor’s degree in 1983. Fisher spent five years at IBM, working with clients in health care, insurance, and defense. “I found I appreciated business in ways I never expected,” she says, “and probably have affected the health of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
class would be working in small business. François Glemet speaks for many of us in the profile he recently wrote for this year's reunion: "I have to admit that, back in '74, I did not have the remotest idea that this is how my View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. There's this Teddy Roosevelt quote about struggle that I came across recently that I really like. Roosevelt said, "There's never yet been a man in our history... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
that’s faster and safer—and they’re able to build new facilities where needed. But equally important is the higher quality of work and life for the teams: “They're happy and proud of where they View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
in 2010 when, at peace and surrounded by her family, she took her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. Curtis, who had a modeling career before attending HBS, worked for many years as an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
before returning home with enhanced perspectives and renewed energy for the challenges ahead. WSA: Celebrating Women's Accomplishments On Saturday, January 22, about eight hundred women gathered on campus for the ninth annual Women's... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
difficulty of life for my father after incarceration.” She adds that the webinar was well-received and many attendees thanked her for sharing her story. “People who have never been involved with the incarcerated see me as brave. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
Photos by Jeff Moore Conventional wisdom says expertise gained through years of experience is the key to business success. Conventional wisdom has never met Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975). Freeman’s unfettered approach to life—“Well, I’ll give that a shot”—has taken him... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
newspaper to pursue novel-writing full-time. (Her two books, Object Lessons and One True Thing, subsequently became bestsellers.) In keeping with the conference's "personalizing success" theme, Quindlen spoke about her life's twin passions - View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
experiences at an early age, due to either an illness of their own or that of a close relative. "My family was politically active," Slavin continues, "and I worked on health policy issues one summer in college for Congressman Ed Markey.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
everything away from you except your education. I spent 20 years in the financial markets in Brazil, in a very exciting period in its history. By the time I was 52, I still had work to do, and I was fascinated by the idea of education.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
note in the book that you've been working on the theory of jobs to be done for two decades now. Clayton Christensen: That's right. Morrell: Tell me a little bit about how your thinking has evolved in that time. Christensen: I came here... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
thing: “Sports. Pirates, Steelers, Penguins, anything black and gold. Pittsburgh just reverberates around its sports teams.” Life lesson: Learned in HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s class. “The real engine behind being successful is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
now facing the consequences of the many failures of American and world leadership in the previous century. It appears likely that we are now in the position of standing on the deck of a sinking ship, and all we can do is argue about the colors of the missing View Details
Keywords: Educational Services