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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
entrepreneurial business leaders in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) that he also headed for many years, is inspired enough by what he has experienced at the Meadows to consider starting a company dedicated to building and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
community through new partners like the Boston Consulting Group and American Public Media. We want to make sure that this is not an issue for food companies alone." Effectively framing the conversation around hunger in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
someplace similar is the obvious exception.” “How do I eat and drink at company presentations and receptions?” “Don’t,” Smith advised. “Eat in advance, or afterward.” Your drink is a prop that you hold in your non-dominant hand.” Yes, do... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
about. We talk about so many different topics at HBS, but this was the first time solving food insecurity was at the heart of a discussion. “There’s also something unique about having a case discussion surrounding a View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
the world of finance. He became one of the people brought in after leveraged buyouts to save failing companies. During Wiviott’s time as COO for one of those companies, Quality Trailer Products, he doubled the annual sales to $50 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
the right thing. We also found that their expectations in this vein are often higher than other generations’ expectations. In the automotive category, for instance, millennials expect car companies to create vehicles that will get more... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
Alden and his people-moving car, with Walter Cronkite in the driver’s seat, 1966. Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the New York View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate developer, but it just came along at an opportune View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
telecommunications business. “There is an old maxim: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they lose,” says Mittal. While others ignored him, Mittal installed fiber-optic cables throughout India. By the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the chairman and CEO of Simmons &... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer their View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
business solutions to poverty. “One day we were talking to villagers who live on $2 a day, and the next day we were meeting with business and government leaders,” recalls Kim. Last summer he built on this experience working in Delhi with Drishtee, a for-profit View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
A Solo Sail Around the World
complete the Vendee Globe yacht race—a non-stop, solo trip around the world. A New York Times story on Wilson notes that the race will be his second, having placed ninth in the 2009 competition. After completing the race, he spoke to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
audience shifted in their seats and went “Ooohhh!” Wails of laughter. It had hurt good. The best lesson I learned at HBS: The big progressive companies spent 20 percent of their profit on R&D. Twenty percent of my time—one day a week—I do... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
expertise in case discussions in our hybrid classrooms, by meeting virtually with prospective students to answer their questions about HBS, and by assisting current students in finding internships and jobs. I’m so deeply grateful to the alumni community for your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Dr. Margaret Chan (PMD 61, 1991) is worried. She believes that a serious human influenza pandemic will almost certainly occur at some time in the near future. Chan is particularly concerned by the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal
says, “I was living a dream every time I put on that helmet. And none of my teammates, from high school All-Americans to the last guys on the bench, needed any extra motivation to leave their guts, heart, and blood on the practice field... View Details