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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
pushed into new territory, the School already has a strong track record of fostering student entrepreneurship, a story told by associate editor Julia Hanna in her look back at past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest, now in its... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
consider four innovations: Expanding their cohort of directors to include retired executives and entrepreneurs who have the time to serve as truly focused directors; Increasing the level of director compensation to keep attractive... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
walked into a dorm full of girls shooting down the banisters in bare feet and ripped jeans.” Just do it: “I’ve found that there’s never a perfect path to achieving our vision. We’re always torn between planning and doing. It’s in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
development of a sustainable model for Executive Education reunions. The committee also suggested creating more opportunities for Executive Education participants to interact with MBA students. Additional recommendations may result from the analysis of an Executive... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993 until his View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets totaled $28 billion; by 1980, they had grown to some $150 billion. But by 1992, assets had soared to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen Grossman View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Wiley Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of individual investors have no... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
His platoon also participated in the operation to rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Taylor’s war record strikes an emotional chord with many conservative voters and veterans. “This guy is a true patriot,” says Nelson Modrall, a retired Army... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
initiated a meeting with representatives from the last five graduating classes. Global Alumni Conferences Ellen Guidera (MBA '86) and her fellow committee members are committed to a process of continual improvement, and with each conference, they seem to be raising the... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
you know, what kind of comp plan are you using? Or different things like that. And so we grew to love each other. Because each one of us had their turn in the barrel. DM: You know, you mentioned by the end of your tenure at GE that you... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
be anywhere in your 50s all the way to your 80s. But I call it the "R" years because you're really relaunching, rethinking what you want to do. And then, the fourth quarter is what I would call sort of the legacy years, where you're View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
creating a strategic plan to address the crisis, with the Department of Public Health leading the effort. A two-day meeting to gather information from stakeholders, including state legislators and public health officials, kick-started the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the... View Details
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