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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
slowly built a loyal following of teachers and students. More than 110,000 people now visit the free Web site each month, 10 percent of them from abroad. “It’s been like a pebble in a pond,” Cook said of the site’s spreading popularity. (While vocabulary.com is free,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
underemployment at home and abroad, before eventually earning an MBA at the University of Maryland. In 1999, after almost twenty years in the executive ranks at AT&T and Lucent, the one-time HP secretary returned to her former employer as... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
Integration. The conversation took place in Spang-ler’s Williams Room in conjunction with a conference on organization design that used their 1967 classic as a jumping-off point for assessing research in the field today. The gathering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
sophisticated communication systems that include detailed weekly reports from UCC’s sales force and senior managers. As long as her days may be — talking on the phone with customers, following up on issues raised during a weekly View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
He calls the hood of a rusty Chevy truck his “conference area” and the passenger seat his “desk.” His part-time help is his fiancée, whom he first recruited to his 1,400-acre Achille, Oklahoma, ranch with the promise of fresh... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
value of building wider connections became even clearer on the afternoon of January 7 when conference delegates sat down after lunch in the ballroom of the harborside Grand Hyatt Hotel. Calling the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
you do first? The first thing we did was try to find our people. And of course, one of the problems was that cell phones didn’t work. So we immediately set up an 8 a.m. company-wide conference call on an 800... View Details
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) took a rather winding path to HBS. She first travelled south to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering at Duke University and then to the West Coast for a master’s in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
being a CEO of a multinational corporation. She even dressed the part, going to school in a pantsuit. But the path to the corner office is often an expensive one. Thompson-Woode learned this as a high schooler in Brooklyn when she wanted to attend a 10-day student... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
excitement and anticipation of new lives about to begin beyond Soldiers Field. The day’s program started with the conferring of the Student Association Faculty Awards for excellence in teaching. Associate Professor Rawi Abdelal (Business,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more economically competitive an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
predominant use case we have in mind is shared rides. Fully driverless cars can be optimized for the passenger instead of the driver, so we see a scenario with multiple types of cabins, and people can call up the one most suited to their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
on McArthur Hall. He called the building a "celebration of John's career" and spoke enthusiastically of McArthur's dedication to HBS and to educational excellence. McArthur then took the podium, thanking Clark, Menino, and Sasser for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
development services. The Executive Education Alumni Committee, chaired by Laura Teller (MBA ’84), organized a series of focus-group discussions held on and off campus to identify ways to strengthen the School’s relationship with Executive Education alumni. One key... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
White House conference on environmental quality that convened engineering firms and federal procurement officials, both the Defense Department and the EPA approached the Zofnass Program to learn more about Envision. Zofnass Program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
Wallace Christina Wallace (MBA ’10) applied to business schools knowing that the best financial aid offer would determine where she earned an MBA. Her job as a rehearsal associate at the Metropolitan Opera came with many benefits, but a... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
Dressed in black pants and a black U-Haul shirt, Joe Shoen, 66, is sitting in a conference room in the middle of a meeting. His cellphone buzzes. Brenda, a customer moving from Michigan to Florida, is furious about a U-Haul phone operator... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Last month, the fourth annual “Harvard Arab Weekend” conference was held at venues around the University, including HBS. The theme of the conference was “Leadership in the Private, Social, and Public... View Details