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- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Part Ownership of a Dream
especially after Finley saw Flightline at a sale in Saratoga: “Damn, that’s how they’re supposed to look,” he recalls thinking. (Finley shares his tips for “How to Pick a Winner” in this Bulletin article.) “I had never seen a horse move... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
his acceptance letter, Christensen recalls his moment of disbelief—immediately followed by financial anxiety. “I was newly married, we had no money, and a baby on the way. And when I found out that HBS was going to help me, I was so... View Details
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- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
with investors? After Ballmer left, the relationship with Wall Street needed tending to. The shares had given up a third of their value during his tenure, even though sales almost quadrupled. Fritz Foley, who attended Harvard Business School with Hood and went on to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's famous declaration, "Ich bin... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
every country in the world. "One of the high points of that trip," recalls Corti, "was flying over and touching down on the endless plains of Russia. You realize how enormous the country is and the folly of trying to conquer it." Military... View Details
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- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
to knowing how to reward employees. "All those things you learn in business school make that successful," she says. In particular, Singer recalls her Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO) class, taught by... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes. From there she saw a hierarchy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
have to defend myself against Joe O’Donnell’s MBA ’71 unfounded claim that he took me in one-on-one games when he worked at HBS,” Cash says with mock disdain. An avid golfer today, Cash is also subject to ribbing from those who recall the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
dinner and do other household chores before darkness falls. Lack of electricity is also a health concern. Poindexter recalls hearing of a baby in need of urgent care in the middle of the night. The clinic had no electricity. As the doctor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
he also spearheaded the effort to open the School’s MBA Program to women. “Marty was a terrific teacher,” recalls HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, a former MBA student of Marshall’s and his successor in teaching the Advertising... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and minorities are represented by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
shared certain traits. Panelists recalled difficult situations from their own careers, trying to stay on course while adjusting to particular circumstances. As the action went back and forth, the audience listened and questioned the pros,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
angel investor, and a senior advisor at Republic, an online investment platform, Aditya certainly had the necessary expertise to identify and foster promising founders. But she had to wonder, “Why me? Why now?” She recalls asking a... View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
help each other out. There's mentoring, being a sounding board, getting another woman's perspective," she says. "I've met some incredible women who are inspirational to me." She recalled how one fellow female flier, an Air Force officer,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Although she had nearly thirty years of on-the-job experience, Deborah Richardson still was thrilled to be selected for a weeklong HBS Executive Education course for nonprofit leaders in July 2003. “I had many ‘eureka’ moments when I was there,” View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
buying to operations management, for nearly nine years. She finally felt like the biggest challenges were behind the company. The year 2020 was going to be stable, she recalls thinking. But by late 2019, it was clear that would not be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
implications.” It’s important to build up reserves of trust with customers and markets to call on in hard times, he added, and don’t try to start the process when times are already difficult. Dubinsky recalled her media ride on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
diagnosed, also has the disease. Crowley, who is a director at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Princeton, New Jersey, recalls how he learned that his children were sick. "When Megan was around five months old, we sensed that her strength wasn't... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her senior year of high school. She recalls being one of about 80 women in a class of 800—and one with the least amount of work experience. "I had worked summers at an ad agency writing copy for Columbia Pictures. I made up a lot of corny... View Details