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- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
Special Forces, planned to make the military his career. But a training accident brought that plan to an end, forcing a course correction that took him to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and to HBS,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
string of successful mergers, including the 1987 Chemical/Texas Commerce Bank deal; the 1991 Chemical/Manufacturers Hanover deal; and the 1995 $10bn deal with Chase, which included the sacrifice of Chemical’s name, even though it was the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
Pentagon, a panoply of books and articles, and a pair of successful business ventures, he considers his teaching at HBS to be the highlight of his career. "I never got over the excitement of being in the classroom," says Fox, who first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
shape a strategic plan that will make Gap “the place of choice to work,” she says. In creating that plan, Ross will draw heavily on her experience shaping a groundbreaking team-based approach to product development that she piloted to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
ancient nation-state.” A number of HBS grads have contributed to the country’s success story, including Tal Keinan (MBA ’01), a cofounder of the nation’s first full-spectrum financial asset management firm, KCS Capital, and Tal Riesenfeld... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
important for company leaders to see themselves as facilitators of progress, as being there to serve the people who are in the trenches. If they do a good job of planning and organizing projects, and keeping in touch with how things are... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Black students from lower-income families in struggling neighborhoods—hope for a successful future. The kids were attentive as the assembly concluded, but, Wilfong later learned, they didn't expect this stranger to follow through on her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) didn’t plan to become a businessman. The Canadian-born DeFehr always imagined life as a diplomat—until he ran afoul of the FBI. As a college student in Indiana, DeFehr had become involved in anti-Vietnam protests and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Management Déjà Vu,” by asking his audience about their concerns, as owners and operators of small businesses. A number of issues were voiced: sales and marketing; cash flow; hiring and motivating employees; smooth succession within... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
successful online marketplace Care.com. Marcelo, the fifth of six children, was raised in a tight-knit family. Her parents, who eloped in their late teens, did not fall into stereotypical gender roles. “My father was the one who stood by... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
tanks and installing sewer lines. Obviously our work is not glamorous, but we do tough jobs, and we do them better than anyone else. Most of our improvement ideas come from our employees. Everyone is invited to our company planning... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
majoring in economics and international relations, and shortly thereafter met her future husband, Ron Marcelo (MBA '98), at a Filipino student conference he had organized at Yale. The subsequent birth of their son, Ryan (now seven), did not alter Lirio Marcelo's View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
assistant to the chancellor of LSU. Buoyed by his academic and professional successes and inspired in part by the career of former Louisiana Governor Franklin D. (“Buddy”) Roemer (MBA 1971), he decided to apply to HBS. With characteristic... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
without having to create individualized lesson plans for each of the 1,000 students enrolled at Intrinsic. The data can tell the staff, for example, to group the students one way if they’re teaching statistics, but another way if they’re... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
their vehicles, plan more efficient routes, reduce fuel expenses, receive maintenance notifications, and track the behaviors of drivers. When Cobli won in 2016, it had 12 employees and no revenue. Today it employees 60 people and boasts... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
few Irish natives living in England - to get to know each other in a casual atmosphere, giving them free time between planned activities. "We wanted to begin, in a small way, the process of building bridges between the communities and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
testimonials from countries as far-flung as Belarus and Zimbabwe that attest to the success of SPI's self-help approach. Three years ago, Batcha took a trip to Africa, an experience that opened his eyes to a new area of focus:... View Details