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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
The second annual HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAAA) conference was held in Chicago, October 8-10. Titled "Creating and Preserving Wealth: Leading the Next Great Migration," the two-day... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
Professor Jeff Polzer focused on team management issues. “Besides being informational from an academic point of view, the case discussions and faculty involvement were great ways to facilitate interaction with our peers,” says Bruce... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
about the job? What do you find most challenging? “I enjoy most the moments when we can see our research and testimony, and the experience of our researchers, directly informing better policies—or helping to stop worse policies from being enacted. I also am fortunate... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
pay my second-year tuition if I accepted a job with them after graduation, I couldn’t turn them down. Much to my surprise, I liked consulting, and I didn’t leave BCG until 1984, after our second and third children were born, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
McCANN: Former defense atforney learned the bakery business from scratch. The lessons Sheila McCann (OPM 24, 1996) learned from the surprising failure of her second House of Bread retail bakery turned out to be an essential ingredient in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
large part to its founder's emphasis on customer relations over shareholder value. Today, Siebel has over eight thousand employees in more than 34 countries. Fortune magazine ranked the company second in its 2001 listing of the "100... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
Antonio “Chipi” Barijho and Luis Guisbert. Manes with Villa 21-24 resident and former Argentine football player Antonio “Chipi” Barijho and Luis Guisbert. Which HBS classes or professors had the greatest impact on you and why? “I loved every View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
fortune." "I saw no reason to hold off until I was older or retired to share my good fortune." After college, Rauner wasted little time enrolling at HBS, entering the School at age 23. Midway through the second year of the MBA Program, he... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
With the understated charm that has won him legions of fans on the big screen, Hollywood legend Paul Newman came to HBS in mid-October to talk about his successful second career as a social entrepreneur. During his daylong visit, Newman... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the case that it would be a View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
before moving on to join the newly-formed firm of Wasserstein Perella & Co. He names Joe Perella as an early sponsor and mentor in his career, and describes two moments of failure— one professional, one personal, in which Perella played a role. Ray McGuire: You know,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
for a positive reason,” Swearengin recalls. Even after a blindside hit on his very first play in high school left him staggering and wondering if “football was worth the sickening feeling inside my head,” the pride he felt in playing the game well overcame any View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
showed how an audience is impressed and won over if the magician “goofs” the first time (e.g., guessing the three of clubs rather than the seven of spades) only to recover through humorous and seemingly Herculean mental effort to get it “right” the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
first-year required Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. “It’s a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and rigorous analysis,” Edmondson notes. “But it’s... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
they use their greatest strengths and they learn to play together as a team because they're "Aligned" around common purpose and a set of values. But this is not soft. All great coaches are very challenging. And so the View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
technical assistance to preservation efforts across the state, and dedicating more than $40 million to hundreds of restoration projects. Among other initiatives, its public campaigns have helped stabilize the south side of Ellis Island, gain landmark status for the... View Details