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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Johnson to a position as the nation's dominant health-care brand-a $9 billion empire comprised of the main operating company and some 150 wholly owned subsidiaries. In addition, J&Jwas regularly rated as one of the most admired and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Reinventing Dell: The Innovation Imperative by Heather Simmons (MBA 1990) (Murmurous Publishing) This book tells the inside story of one of tech’s most intriguing giants. Simmons asks: How did Dell go from one of the most admired... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
admired and respected McArthur were legions of HBS alumni. Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) noted, “Early in my career John took a chance and hired me, and we became lifelong friends—our families were literally intertwined. I’ve since had the... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Viana also admired their grit. And he recognized the global cachet of quality French products. Here was something different, and maybe more meaningful, than leading a technology company. France’s manufacturing sector was still struggling... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
And they're, in our minds and in other people's minds as well, very good investors, specifically when it comes to science-based companies. And so really this was, to my mind, kind of the be all and end all. I just really admired a lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
returning to homeport in Everett, Washington, after a sixmonth deployment, and our stores were almost down to zero. Then, on New Year’s Day 2003, the ship’s admiral announced that the President had asked us to go back to the Persian Gulf.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
retail store allow her to feed her family, gain equity, and send her children to school. (Carielle Doe/Mercy Corps) McKenna had followed the story as it unfolded in the news. She had long admired the work of Mercy Corps, especially during... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
learning, the joy of education, the joy of pursuing ideas, of admiring beauty but also accepting the challenge of difficult ideas as presented over the ages by artists. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
editor’s remarks in “The MBA at a Crossroads,” as well as the comments regarding the book Rethinking the MBA. My use of and admiration for the MBA I received decades ago remains, and I would not change it one bit. I see business being... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
“I was 95 percent sure I wanted to be a general manager. But after I got to HBS I recognized that you can stay in the field you love and be an academic at the same time,” says Gartenberg, adding that HBS professor Tarun Khanna made a “huge” impact. “I View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Now there seems to be a third group, which is just trying to figure out what is going on. That group hasn’t been served very well by this tendency for people to interpret information in this heroic way, to make everything more extreme. Even people I View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
I mean, one of the things I really admire a lot about the Africans, they are the most forgiving continent around, because I think they understand that they're imperfect and everybody's imperfect. And when you compare to societies, let's... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
an active role in the Harvard Club of Vero Beach. He loved to spend his days admiring the view of the Atlantic Ocean while listening to music and reading. He served seven years as president of his condominium association, initiating and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
thousands of young professionals and hundreds of interviews with the world’s top business and nonprofit leaders (among them Virgin’s Richard Branson, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Third Point Advisors’ Daniel Loeb, and US Navy SEALs’ View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
art-auction company executive; the former CEO of a Spanish-language television company; a retired rear admiral who had headed the Girl Scouts and served on the board of Weight Watchers International; a theatrical producer; and, until two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
music-based festivals and other events in 22 US and 23 international locations each year. Before joining Wanderlust last December, it struck her that she’d never worked in a place where would-be employees’ number one reason for applying was pure View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
against type: a double major in math and economics at Yale, a stint at McKinsey, and a joint degree in business and law from Harvard—all admirable accomplishments, but none a prerequisite for screenwriting. Singer acted and sang his way... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
a call—from around the corner or across the world—without saying ‘I love you’ because that might just be the last time you talk. Plus, it puts a smile on my face every time.” —Alexander P. Cole (OPM 37, 2008), CEO, Admiral Container HK... View Details