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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Farm Boy
life’s trials and embraced its successes with perspective, kindness, and humor.” On the challenge of recalling long-ago events without contemporaneous notes, Jeppson said, “I find when I am writing, my memory comes back. It was a lot of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Last Look
on banjo, and MBA ’56 classmates Larry McNichols on trombone, Vernon Johnson on clarinet, Jack Brown on trumpet, and John Eresian on piano. Eresian also recognizes his wife, Van Schlegel (Wellesley ’54), at left, with a scarf in her hair. Pogue View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
Center in response to the growth of global activities at HBS, and then expanded their funding to encompass all of the School’s nine global research centers. A recent gift furthering global engagement at the School has broadened their commitment to HBS’s international... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
being a student at HBS—the cases, the campus, my classmates,” recalls Guidera. “But my post-HBS experience has been equally meaningful. I’ve moved around a lot, and the HBS and Harvard networks have been such a great source of friendships... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
colleague, interviewed Levitt for a special video presentation shown at the The Globalization of Markets colloquium. Noting that in 1983 Levitt’s HBR article had “created a firestorm of debate,” Greyser asked him to recall its impact at... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has guided her work as an entrepreneur... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
tuck it into the back of your mind the way you would anything unpleasant — otherwise you couldn’t deal with it.” Snyder recalls wanting to be a criminal lawyer from an early age; as a young girl growing up in Baltimore, she took notes on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs take their business acumen on the road
and hit the road this summer. Alaoui recalls the work MBAxAmerica did for Sebastian Jackson, owner of the Detroit barbershop Social Club Grooming Co. Jackson wanted to donate hair shavings to accelerate compost for urban renewal projects.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
deregulation, we would have been at the top,” says Lorenzo, who instead became a leader in the new era of more affordable air travel, eventually as CEO of Continental Airlines. His recent book, Flying for Peanuts, recalls that tumultuous... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
the holidays. He also recalled how the idea for thredUP came to him at HBS. “The original concept for how to deal with two-sided marketplaces, which is what thredUP is, came from HBS associate professor Andrei Hagiu’s Strategy &... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
young army clerk who gave him a book on the Harvard MBA — Yeo did enroll at HBS and earned his MBA with High Distinction. The MBA has had “great applicability to what I do,” Yeo explained, recalling an example from his days as Trade and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Last Look
identify this photo as related to the Business Game competition. But what students, and when? Demer, who says it’s the 1960s, recalls that the game required small groups of students to make key budget decisions and “balance marketing,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
d'Arbeloff says. "In the small-world category, all these strands connecting around this one film—it's a very exciting moment." D'Arbeloff, who runs Roadside with his business and life partner, Howard Cohen, recalled the moment—rather, the... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Paolo M. Pellegrini, MBA 1985 & Henrietta Jones
first Italian minicomputer was developed,” recalls Pellegrini, who now lives in New York City. “In high school, I had summer internships at various software development companies, and I credit those experiences with a big portion of my... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Ogden, who grew up in a working-class family, recalls the power of his own education, leading up to his time at HBS, where the idea of paying it forward was part of the School’s DNA. “There’s something in the genetic code of the School... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
People Watching
finance department before moving to Sports Illustrated, where she spent ten years before accepting the top spot at People. At the time, the magazine was just a black-and-white “grocery store” publication. “Nobody else wanted the People job,” View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
'Who is this guy?'" Gilmartin recalls with a chuckle. His inclusive management style quickly won him fans within the company. "I met with a lot of people and asked two questions: 'What do you think are the major issues we face? And if you... View Details
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie