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- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
His journey began with books. "We had no newspaper or TV," he says, "so I started reading books that would give me an idea of the world outside. I knew I could not change my destiny to be born there, but I also knew that with hard work I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
newspaper to pursue novel-writing full-time. (Her two books, Object Lessons and One True Thing, subsequently became bestsellers.) In keeping with the conference's "personalizing success" theme, Quindlen spoke about her life's twin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
General Georges Frederic Doriot, but I do know that in 2002, when I looked into the sparse literature on the history of venture capital, his name kept popping up. I found a bunch of newspaper and magazine profiles, a chapter on him in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) Before his 14th birthday, Steven Rogers (MBA '85) was already learning a lot about business. He had delivered newspapers and milk in his Southside Chicago neighborhood, bused tables at a downtown hotel,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
there was a question about whether that would be a detriment - people might think that I was buying the election. The local newspaper took a poll and asked, "Are you offended by Herb Kohl spending his own money to run for office?"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
ice in January 1915. Legend has it that to attract potential crew members, Shackleton placed the following newspaper advertisement: “Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
broadcasting station. Ibaraki prefecture had only one broadcasting station, including TV and radio, so that studio had a monopoly on the airwaves. So we bought a station from Asahi Shimbun newspaper company and turned it around, making it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
stories. With the proliferation of books and newspapers in the late eighteenth-century, and then perhaps even more markedly in our own time with the explosion in bytes, stories, which were an essential mode of communication for many... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
in Dallas, and I had some really capable marketing guys and gals, and they came up with this idea, well, let's offer everybody who comes to the airport $1 on the first day for the ticket, and we'll go up from there to $30. And the airport was mobbed, of course, and it... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
1935-36 in Alumni Notes Summer 1942 William H. Lipsitt, M.B.A. 1939, Lieutenant (jg) in the Supply Corps of the Navy, arrived safely "somewhere in Australia" after sailing for two months with four other officers in a small, open boat [from the Philippines]. According... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
studying the air they breathe when they are at the surface; we study them where they live, underwater. And yet that’s exactly what we do with humans. For all this time spent indoors, we tend to focus much more on outdoor air quality than on indoor air quality. Check... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
on. Out comes a newspaper and I'm scribbling all over an ad for Continental Cablevision and wow! Look at that! CNN and Nick-at-Nite. That goes at the top of my to-do list: Remember to order cable. Item two: Get a new briefcase at Staples... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
efficiency engineers — how would we spend our leisure? The problem has bothered social scientists/statesmen, ministers, newspaper editors, and reformers, even though we are not yet even in sight of Utopia. It is supposed, at least by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
things I learned at HBS is that when something is hard, you ask why. Looking at industry data, I saw a ton of untouched white space in targeted media, which was common in New York back in the 1800s. You had a newspaper for German New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
in particular, received steady, low-key infusions of technology and volunteer time — spearheaded by faculty members like Jim Cash, but backed steadfastly by the Dean’s Office. “But John didn’t want the newspaper story,” Menino emphasizes.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
façade that we build around our lives," Clark observed. "I think there will be a sense of real meaning during the year." In the same Harbus issue, Rick Leimsider (HBS '03), a new arrival on campus who had "never written to a newspaper... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
gifts to be savored. Other days, when she has read the same newspaper article aloud five times in an hour, it is heartbreaking. Trying to make reason out of the insanity of the disease is difficult. My advice is take good care of your... View Details