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- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
ones, to see what their ancestors could accomplish once they gained their freedom. Journeys: An American Story editors Mary Skafidas and Andrew Tisch Do you see a common thread running through all the essays in the book? The commonality... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
been fully developed. “He took a chance on me,” says Horn, who moved from Cincinnati to Los Angeles, where he launched a career in entertainment that included cofounding (with Rob Reiner) Castle Rock Entertainment and running Warner Bros.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
dream on his HBS application. After earning his MBA, de Menil returned to iASO Records and, through his work in the Dominican Republic, met Michel Zaleski, founder of the DREAM Project, a nonprofit that builds and runs schools in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
growth of female athletes in amateur sports, we found that sexual abuse of these young, female athletes by male coaches was quite widespread. It was an incredible series that changed the reporting laws in Washington State. PRACTICING JOURNALISM in a democracy is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
entrepreneurship group runs a first–year course called The Entrepreneurial Manager, sixteen elective courses, the Business Plan Contest, summer fellowships in entrepreneurship, and a wide range of research projects and publications.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
photographing the lava spill that runs the length of the high street in Goma, and in Mozambique, where I found myself, inadvertently, heading towards the presidential palace,” he told The Times of London (September 24, 2011). Even so,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
darkness, several men appeared in front of them and then several more behind them. It was the Służba Bezpieczeństwa or SB as it was commonly known. “You run left, I’ll run right,” Maj told Janek. Maj took... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
what makes us human. Now there’s an inescapable, passive sort of uncertainty: If you are running a gas station, you have to deal with not knowing at what rate EVs will replace internal combustion engines. But there’s also proactive... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, which runs the centers,... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
Clubs News Clubs News A group of 33 members and guests of the HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) took an outing on January 16 to see Gloria: A Life, a two-act play about the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, currently running at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the business rather than fighting wars. If... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a math-minded chief operating officer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
purchase. It was a home run with our customers. Instead of losing them, we developed immensely loyal customers. Sahlman: I took advantage of the opportunity to avoid upheaval by pursuing the only job from which you can't get fired!... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
locations.” “The industry is hard. You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after the first year. And very few people get beyond one or two locations.” “We run A/B testing around price, around pictures,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
Business School was being established on the right basis and being run on the right lines.” Baker’s endowment, and a remarkable collaboration between architects McKim, Mead & White and landscape design firm Olmsted Brothers, made possible... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
ahead of time by participants, Haley said the pair was able to run live searches based on their immediate research needs to demonstrate research tools. Alumni asked about specific topics, such as wanting to find statistics on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
history and turning his company into one of the world’s largest hedge funds. Since achieving such enormous success, Paulson has avoided the limelight. The father of two daughters continues to run his firm and focuses on giving back. “My... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some independent consulting. In 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Evans runs the operation according to the rigors of an investment fund. And that's where her HBS education really comes in. "It was the training in how to think about your approach to opportunities," Evans says, recalling a business... View Details