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- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
Careers in writing and business were foreshadowed early for T. A. (Tom) Barron (MBA '80). When he was nine years old, growing up in Harvard, Massachusetts, he produced a humor magazine, The Idiot's Odyssey, which he peddled to the public... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
I admire other female colleagues like Sandy Moose of BCG and June Rokoff of Lotus. Best business advice My good friend and sectionmate Brigid Sullivan told me I should be involved with something that taps into my passion. Where the new... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
temperate climates that have access to water and are in higher latitudes tend to be more developed than those in lower latitudes with tropical climates and minimal water access. Sachs explained that tropical climates are not good for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
community of nations, should be understood as a mid- to long-term win-win strategy. Anything contrary to that notion contributes to contracting the pie. Eventually, the very rich find out that they need others to buy their goods, or the View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
books in the library (answer: very), to whether more space was needed (absolutely), to debates about how much of the original structure should be preserved (a good bit). A task force set out to investigate the current and future needs of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
do their job for free. No tycoon, no matter how loaded, civic-minded, and/or self-medicated, will bankroll meaningful newsgathering — and all its bureaus, labor relations, and, yes, office supplies — just for giggles. And without View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
thoughts about giving. Campbell: Yes, that was another profound experience. So yes, our church had made a $1,000 investment in 1970 that became a $1.6 million windfall, in 2014. And so the very first thing our church did with that money... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
financial management system held together by baling wire." Along with bringing the IRS's financial management system into the 21st century, Rossotti reorganized the agency into four units, each responsible for a specific group of taxpayers: individuals with wage and... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
reality, articulate the vision and set the strategic path to it, enshrine the institutional values, demand performance, empower the people, and then get out of the way and say thank you.” A leader should also be a good listener, encourage... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont with its View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Shanoff also wondered what the MBA Class of '42 might have been thinking about "right around first-term exams in December 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the country into World War." As students struggled with a new sense of vulnerability, a number of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
carved out business opportunities despite formidable odds, including Madam C.J. Walker, a daughter of slaves who founded a million-dollar hair-care enterprise. Gail J. McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments in Boston, asked... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
lot of items,” he says. “Although I was doing well, the business quickly outgrew me. I knew I needed more training.” So he returned to college at NYU’s School of Business, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class. Then he went straight to HBS. “Harvard gave me... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Pain. My partner, Louis Kane, and I incorporated in 1981, went public in 1991, and had 250 stores by 1993. How did Panera come into the mix? In 1993 we Au Bon Pain acquired a nineteen-store enterprise called the St. Louis Bread Company.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
especially given the substantial investment the students are making in terms of their own time and money. For all three stages, we are deeply grateful to HBS alumni who generously support our financial aid programs as they pay it forward... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
moratorium on commercial whaling. The research is widely seen as an excuse to sell the subsidized meat to a Japanese public increasingly turning away from it. For what it’s worth, I hate conflict, and being in my 40s, I feel fear. I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Spencer, president and CEO of Sematech, bring together top technical managers from Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox and leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change. The result is an important discussion of the consequences of declining View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Disease Control and Prevention, declared racism a serious public health threat. Shell is a coalition builder and a longtime observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg