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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
Happy Because He’s Blind
Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was just three years old when his vision began to fail; diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, he was legally blind by his early 20s. “It was really a difficult period for me trying to figure out what I was going to do and what my View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Man on a Mission
his life to a campaign to promote prostate-cancer awareness and education, including a Web site. The site, which taps into the experiences of patients and doctors, provides a lot of the information Girand... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Profile
Tafadzwa Samushonga
people’s lives, she initially kept this separate from her professional ambitions. In university, Tafadzwa the community service leader, lived a parallel and independent life from Tafadzwa the actuarial student. Tafadzwa finally realized... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Books@Baker: Joseph Badaracco
Many of us are so busy, it can be tough to step off the daily merry-go-round, put our smartphones, laptops, and to-do lists aside, and find quiet time to reflect on our lives. Yet reflection gives us a chance to pause and figure out what really matters, especially when... View Details
- 25 May 2018
- Blog Post
9 Reasons to Look Forward to Your HBS Commencement
their futures. 6. Cheering for your section mates During your first year at HBS, you'll quickly learn that your section becomes an extension of your family. Each section is made up of 90 students with different backgrounds, interests, experiences, and ambitions. The... View Details
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Brett Laffel
Why was getting a business education important to you? Obtaining a business education was important to me because my past work experience involved learning a very narrow and specific skill set and I wanted to obtain a more general... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
smile talks about her experience tutoring a single mother on welfare as a volunteer in Boston City Hospital's Adult Literacy Program. "This woman was smart, motivated, and capable," recalls Hubert, who met with her student twice a week,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
figure, Cambodia, 11th century.” I wanted to know about the culture that had created such sublime beauty. But there was a train to catch, and life moved on. Picture a calendar’s pages flipping by, the way they used to in the movies: high... View Details
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Rakhshan Zahid
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I came to HBS to switch tracks from finance to starting my own business. We have a course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and in every class, we look at a new business from different industries: traditional... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Tme for Happiness
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
we were at HBS, it often seemed that some of the professors weren't much older than we were. But "the Dean" was definitely older -- perhaps not ancient, but there was no question that he was old. After all, what do deans do but share their long years of View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
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Raymond Hwang
Why spine surgery? “Spine surgery has an appealing and somewhat unique set of characteristics. There is a great deal we have yet to understand about spine-related disorders, making the practice and research of spine care both challenging and dynamic. The vast majority... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
times, whatever they are—and in my case they are driven by mental illness—it makes you a deeper individual. You experience life more richly. Every day that I’m healthy I am incredibly grateful. + ONLINE... View Details
- 21 Sep 2017
- News
Reed Benet: Making A Difference
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
could find.” “My dad was always thinking of creative ideas for his business and talking about them at the dinner table,” Amabile says on a call from Amherst, Massachusetts—her home with life partner and collaborator Steven Kramer since... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
More Invincible than Invisible
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
program. Students come from all over the world with different industry backgrounds, passions, and goals and work together to combine their unique experiences with the education they gain at HBS. However, it is the students who decide... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
guy, and he shall be missed by the marketing world. Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) I was a student of Professor Salmon’s in 1962 and 1963, an experience that was transformational for me and for my family business. In those years, as part of the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News