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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
York, before joining the Navy in 1941, before Pearl Harbor. A few months later, I was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington when Japanese planes attacked us in the Battle of the Coral Sea. I was a supply and disbursing officer, and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bill Berrien
I want to inspire the cooperative instincts of people – ideally at first in business, later in public and community life, but always in family. I loved my Navy leadership experiences – solving problems and improving the lives of my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Deal Me In
Black Photo Courtesy Fitdeck Have you heard about the latest must-have exercise equipment? Your local gym doesn’t have it, and that’s just fine with its inventor, Phil Black (MBA ’02), who’d rather see it in your shirt pocket. Black, a certified personal trainer and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Giving Together
a fellowship fund to support HBS students with a military service background—and so did 11 of his classmates. Haley, a former US Navy SEAL and currently a managing director at Ziff Brothers Investments, led an effort that raised $335,000... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
and more remarkable than is usually thought. For example, the U.S. Navy staged a mock attack on Pearl Harbor in 1932 that led it to conclude that the entire fleet of ships and planes stationed there was vulnerable to being wiped out. The... View Details
- Portrait Project
Myoung Cha
To be changed by the world around me. Many people come to HBS to "change the world." I was one of those people. But I have come to realize that it is HBS that has changed me. I have learned how to optimize a cranberry factory, absorbed life lessons from a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
assess and advance their own brand-management efforts. Confessions to a Deaf God by Gary R. Blinn (MBA ’72) (Xlibris Corporation) Blinn’s memoir of his two years as a Navy Swift boat skipper in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta offers a vivid,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
“Operating under intense pressure.” —Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and the boardroom Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993) served in the British Royal Navy for eight years, retiring as a lieutenant. The former CEO of Domino’s Pizza... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia Law School. “I benefited tremendously,”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
One of his agency’s current projects, the conversion of an aging 109-room motel into housing for the city’s homeless veterans, has special meaning for Cordova. Following a tour of duty as a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, Cordova attended... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Last Look
hero and canine-savior, a Vietnam vet and former Navy SEAL whose training had included cold-water swimming. The photo and stories about the rescue subsequently appeared in media around the world, generating praise, honors, and even some... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bari Schwartz
It began with an organ, perched high above the grandstand. The visiting team dotted the outfield, smoke from grilling hot dogs wafted up the aisles, navy jerseys blanketed the stadium bowl. Game on the line, the batter strode toward the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
CourtLink Corporation (acquired by LexisNexis) and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer. MBA from HBS, BS Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Currently, Craig is also the Board Chairman of the Clean Tech... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Crowdfunding capital for small business
like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital.” Although the partners had been friends for four decades, they had never worked together before iCrowd. McGee, a US Navy veteran,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Last Look
been highly constrained lives.” He adds, “These young women were pretty much stranded in a pathetic little encampment of (former) U.S. Navy prefabs — known as ‘Tortilla Flats’— plopped down about where the very plush quarters of the AMP... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and later as director of investment banking at Guzman &... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
one-third of the US energy supply. Won a $5.3 million grant from the Department of Energy to test its Triton-C “wave energy converter” at a Navy test site in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Energicity Cofounder and CEO Nicole Poindexter (MBA 1997);... View Details
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Inessa Lurye
family living on the eighth floor. Months later, we immigrated to a predominantly minority neighborhood in Baltimore. In school, my teacher taped large signs around me in a new language: "CHAIR," "TABLE," they spelled in bold View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
marketing, distribution, and organizational strategy. He also headed the Division of Research for six years, overseeing an expansion of the School’s commitment to research and the launch of the HBS Press. Corey, a 1941 graduate of Amherst College, served in the View Details