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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wrote his business plan, found a partner, and left Microsoft in 1997 in order to start VacationSpot, an online reservations network for consumers seeking to rent vacation properties. “We worked hard on it for three years,” states Murch.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
development?' And the answer is, it's both. In an ideal world, research and teaching reinforce each other, although it's sometimes hard to accomplish this in practice. Yet, in the examples we discussed in our symposium, it worked... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
underestimate our ability to make more out of those we have .Stretching is a learned set of attitudes and skills that comes from a simple but powerful shift from wanting more resources to embracing and acting on the possibilities of our... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
could give him the skills he needed, but that he couldn’t achieve his goal if it meant acquiring substantial debt. “The fellowship enables me to take on a higher level of risk in my career choice and follow my dreams. I’m working View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
a support network to help you attain some clarity — sometimes what you’re feeling and thinking runs counter to the flow of your life. It can be hard to tune out the noise.” Anderson says that the business View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
honored to be a part of such a committed and enthusiastic group of people, all of whom have worked very hard during the year to ensure that thoughtful and actionable committee recommendations were delivered and projects completed. We have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
rather than on the political consequences. Lukas Mühlemann, CS: I believe it has become much more difficult to admire anybody today. Many people excel in a certain environment, but when it changes, many of the same people struggle. Orit Gadiesh, Bain: It is View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
probably minutes. Morrell: Why was it so hard to believe that, Matt? Was it just because it didn't seem possible? Brady: The Night Stalkers hadn't had a helicopter shot down, at that point, ever. I mean, certainly not since the wars had... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
look ridiculously easy, but it's not. It involves hard work that takes a considerable amount of focus and dedication." HENRY McCANCE Yale University, 1964 B.A., Economics "At HBS, I remember the challenge of analyzing difficult problems,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
museum’s “incredibly supportive and creative building committee.” Working with skilled professionals from a wide range of disciplines is something Houston did often in her experience at New York City’s Lincoln Center, first as an HBS... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, grew out of Murrell’s 2014 PhD dissertation—a degree she pursued after working in finance for more than 25 years. +LISTEN Murrell talks about transitioning from a career in finance to art history—and the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Last Christmas, many of the headlines spelled out trouble in toyland. FAO Schwarz sunk deeper into bankruptcy, KB Toys was having a hard time making ends meet (and filed Chapter 11 in January), and Toys “R” Us, which closed its Kids “R”... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
there's this like flat T, like the “wad”—like this weird D sound that English has that a lot of languages do not have. So I used to say water. And then I had to learn to say water. I remember even ... Oh my gosh. I remember even Connecticut was such a View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
disseminated. We also are thinking hard about how we might extend the career and professional development group to be more helpful to our graduates (with a special focus on alumnae) through the various transitions that might occur over... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential. After a decade of experimentation in education and global development, I enrolled at HBS to develop the skills and strategy to bring Global Citizen Year to life. Winning the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
performer, she mouths notes, her face at times mournful, menacing, or ecstatic. Prieto, positioned next to her on stage, seems to lean in to coax notes out of her violin—much the way a lead singer of a rock band might interact with a guitarist in the midst of a solo.... View Details