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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1972 Profiles
"I hope you feel that these two years have brought new ideas, insights, and friends," wrote then Dean Lawrence E. Fouraker in a farewell letter to the Class of 1972. As they return for their 25th Reunion, it is clear that members of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Creating Change
existing structure.” Women from the Classes of 1970 and 1971 wrote letters and met with decision-makers. 2 “Figure out who those committed and powerful people are who can help you make a change.” For those seeking to open the doors to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability
Management (TOM), a first-term offering, in order to add significant new content on the management of information technology. “These changes represent only the most recent step in the continuous evolution of our MBA Program,” said Kester in a View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha
awesome: Pasricha met and married his new wife, and they now have two children. That led him to his next topic: happiness. “It was a 300-page letter to my unborn child,” Pasricha says of his new book, The Happiness Equation, another... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to the new standards often employed a heavily unionized public-sector workforce whose members would seem to benefit most from fully funded pensions. To come to this conclusion, Allen and her coauthor studied 227 letters received by the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Southern leaders. On August 19, he drafted a potentially momentous letter to a Democratic politician and newspaper editor, ending the communication with this proposition: “If Jefferson Davis wishes...to know what I would do if he were to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
letters to Bay Area companies, he landed a summer job at Dodge & Cox, an investment management company headquartered in San Francisco. “The top three people there were HBS alums,” he remembers. “That summer job turned into a career.” Over... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
private-sector customer service? After all, it wasn’t so long ago that letters or phone calls to virtually any state agency might simply go unanswered. (And truth be told, the private sector often wasn’t much better.) After my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
Appealing Messages David Lindholm (MBA 1959, AMP 100, 1987) If there’s a way to capture the attention and interest of his Class of 1959 Section C classmates, David Lindholm will find it—and he has, through a series of cleverly written and informative View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
home communities,” said Summers in a ten-page letter to faculty, students, and staff. Read the entire letter at www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2003/ lhs_allston.html. View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
and Assistant Professor Myra M. Hart. Hart, a key player in last November's Women Leading Business Executive Education seminar (see page 32), will coordinate the program at HBS for the Division of Research. Following national media coverage of the initiative, dozens of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Writing this letter in early spring, I want to provide a midyear update on Alumni Board activities and point out some exciting new developments that will have a direct impact on you. As you know, this year the Board is addressing three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
church, I wrote condolence notes to folks who had lost a loved one. I have to tell you, when you’re most in need, a handwritten letter is a powerful thing. Sometimes email doesn’t suffice. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
one of my last and most enjoyable flights. He was downright bubbly as we put on an impromptu air show over an Adirondack lake. Yet another had pages of combat time; he wrote my letter of recommendation for HBS. Those losses and more since... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
faculty colloquia and set a course for future research and discovery. To kick off the Bulletin’s Centennial editorial year, we put the event right out front where no one would miss it — on the cover. Inside, in an open letter to the HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
Enriquez projects another image, filled with the letters ATCG in various combinations. The letters stand for adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine — the chemicals that make up DNA. Just as the floppy disk... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
contending with fallout from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. “As a general manager you’re going to get letters from organizations that say do X, Y, or Z,” Oberholzer-Gee observes. “How should you think about them? There are a number... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I am writing this letter on the heels of another wonderful reunion weekend at HBS. If you're like me, a "reunion zealot," you know how special these events are. Not only do reunions give us the chance to reconnect with dear friends, but... View Details