Graduation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2013
News

Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976

Entrepreneurship at HBS helped put a stake in the ground that said entrepreneurship is an important part of graduate business education,” Volpe states. “I’m thrilled to contribute to that movement.” View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

comparing, busyness, and worry and take the steps towards where you want to be." Seeking out others is key to recovery, he writes, recommending the SKS form, which he learned about as a graduate student at Brigham Young, a method... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Brandon Lovell

"I found myself hanging with not necessarily the right crowd," Brandon says. After graduating from high school and spending a couple years searching for a purpose, Brandon was introduced to Year Up, a nonprofit program founded... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

education. In turn, as a college graduate who became a federal government employee and a consultant in Washington, Checchi's father set an example that helped pave the way for young Al to win a private school scholarship, which led to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

HBS African American Student Union

time students step on campus through graduation and beyond, we root for Black leaders." -Alexis Jackson, Aaron Hancock, and Bukie Adebo (AASU Co-Presidents) View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

where they are simply in over their heads. For example, newly minted MBAs who have never had subordinates reporting to them before may take jobs in which they will have considerable people management responsibilities, with little sense of the risk in doing so.... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

less attractive option. What was the result? The employee dropped the suit. When Deepak was in graduate school, an economics professor began his first day of class with the following statement: "I want you all to remember... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

still considered part of the Class of 1978. Dolan acknowledges that his circumstances are unusual, and even admits he had a few reservations about taking over the role of club president. “I was concerned,” he reflects, “that our graduates... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

graduated with the first class of college students in China after the cultural revolution and was a determined M.D. Driven as she was in her profession, she fought hard to provide me with love, companionship, support, understanding, and... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

in how to spend time as a mother. I took a gap semester in my EC (second) year because I felt I was drowning between classes, the part-time job I wanted to do, and a broken childcare support system (daycare was shortened due to COVID). Luckily, my husband was going to... View Details

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

Kristina Hu is from the Class of 2022 and a proud member of Section H. After graduating from Harvard College in 2016, she worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley before pivoting into tech, eventually becoming a product manager at... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

graduation from HBS approached, O'Donnell seemed poised to go to work for Ross Perot, who had already made a national name for himself as founder of Electronic Data Systems. Offer in hand, however, he decided against it. "As my wife,... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

then to go into business means a great deal," Du Bois wrote. "It is, indeed, a step in social progress worth measuring." 3 Harvard Business School (HBS), the country's first graduate program in business administration, opened its doors in... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

as an Infantry Platoon Leader in the US Army in North Iraq from 2008 - 2009, and is a graduate of several military schools, West Point, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ben is also a volunteer or board member with: Harvard... View Details

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

year deferral, I could also apply to the MS portion of the dual degree program. After a few months of essay prep, test-taking, and an interview, I received the admissions portal update that changed my life: I had been accepted into the 2+2 program! Upon View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Technologies , Kudos & Karivez Bio New Venture Competition Press Release Harvard Celebrates 111th Class Day & Graduation Ceremonies The academic year culminated on May 27, 2021, as the School recognized and honored the Class of 2021,... View Details

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

that Clocky wouldn't even hit the market until 2007. “I would kill Clocky in about two days." —Diane Sawyer At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT's Media Lab, had developed for an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

then you reflect on the environment that you grew up in. And they have a few other exercises around that. And so, you really spent a substantial amount of time just collecting data and associations and thoughts from your history. DM: When Platzer View Details

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

As the daughter of two pioneering civil engineers in Kenya, Peggy Mativo-Ochola learned to be ambitious. "I saw my mother as a woman who broke glass ceilings and my father as a man who strove for excellence in his field," Peggy says. While her parents... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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