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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
schoolwork on the road is one thing, but what about running a company? That was the question Simon heard most often from his HBS classmates when he took a quick detour from the trip to attend his 20th Reunion last spring. Simon, who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
inclusive culture? And how should HBS change over the next 10 years to accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world?" The authors conducted some 60 interviews for the case, resulting in stories that run... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Running a business in today’s business landscape gets more difficult every year. Given the level of competition and market ups and downs, it seems one has to either sacrifice one’s personal life for the job or lose everything. But... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Just Has to Make Money by Robert C. Hacker (MBA 1972) (North American Publishing Company) Nobody has more stories than agency account people. Having been inside hundreds of clients’ organizations and six agencies and seen it all, Hacker couldn’t share these tales when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in a sawmill View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
That image you have from television, of a lifesaving organ packed in a cooler—just like the one you would use to carry beer—is pretty accurate, says Giwa. People running frantically through airports with coolers to catch last-minute... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
to run a different kind of foundation, one that focused on people first and the disease second. Those priorities led Sontag to spin off a new nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network, a free nationwide resource that provides the information and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
She shared the same germy fears and so we teamed up to launch Spruce & Co—our consumer goods startup focused on simple products for everyday healthy routines.” What have been some of the most enjoyable and most challenging parts of View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
throwing and catching. I’m also dyslexic and struggle at school. I fidget in classrooms, and my mind wanders. So now, between my sophomore and junior years of college, I’m exploring a new path. It involves doing good by running red lights... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
share by offering designer-crafted lingerie at an incredible price with the convenience of online shopping." What have been the best and most challenging parts of starting and running Adore Me? "The best part has been the phenomenal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
was then — stranded at the B-School with food running low. The days crawl and the years fly! Here we are 25 years later with a lot of road behind us and more road ahead of us than any other generation has ever had. This year the corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
is a work in progress but fortunately most of the teachers we work with speak passable English — they are, after all, English teachers. The schools we work with are run by the city and are reasonably modern, though they lack much of what... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
people have heard the word, bitcoin than blockchain. And bitcoin-- I think-- most people will recognize as a digital currency. And let me take a break here, to say, it's like being able to email someone money and if you look at the development of other technologies,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Dream: Tales from the Middle of the Pack By James Riehl, Jr. (MBA 1978) Palmetto Publishing During the running boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the names of the swiftest runners were on everyone’s lips. Frank Shorter. Bill Rodgers.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Stevenson and practitioner-academic Bill Poorvu had taught in recent years; it had been true for the Starting New Ventures course that former faculty member Pat Liles had run years earlier; it had even been true for some of the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
actually was in Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls. "I slipped. I had climbed to the top of a tall wall, and I just plummeted and hit my head." Perez de Leza was 25 at the time, a native of Madrid taking an extended summer vacation... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
risk? Just because you would gladly pay a higher capital gains rate doesn’t mean others would. Brian W. Keane (MBA 1986) Potomac, MD Both Sides Now LaMagna has fallen into the trap set by those who believe “fairness” runs only in one... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
their careers and their future goals—personal, professional, and societal. “One of the things we talked about a lot in that forum was running toward the thing that hurts your heart the most,” Verdi recalls. For Verdi and his wife, Gina,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is View Details