class of 49 - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2001
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Fall Reunions: Remembrance and Renewal

Last October 4–7, some thirteen hundred graduates and guests from the MBA Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, and 1976 gathered at HBS for the traditional round of academic... View Details

06 Dec 2018
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mornings-only class schedule, she spent the afternoons working retail at an athletic clothing shop. “I think it planted an entrepreneurial seed in me. I loved the hands-on aspect to it, I loved how you could see the results View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer

sounds corny, but it's true.” — Margie Kelley DISTINCT YET OF A PIECE PROFILES FROM THE CLASS OF 1977 John R. Davis: Nature's Blessing Michael F. Cronin: A Focus on the... View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Sep 2016
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New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview

and the other leaders at HBS. There’s a great amount of momentum, and I am here to help build on that. My broader goals align with the mission of the School: to educate leaders who make a difference in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up

food.” Traeger’s 1.7 million social media followers, a mainstay of brand loyalty in uncertain times, continue to reinforce the company-customer bond, participating in live, online cooking classes that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

accomplishments — both academic and extracurricular — of the Class of 2002, what you'll see is a triumph of spirit. This trying time for the... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!

Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

age. Combining this market opportunity with the huge waste of returned goods from e-commerce, we saw the business case—and from there it was all execution.” What short- and long-term goals do you have for the company? Momchil:“The... View Details

19 Mar 2019
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A Quick Study

over online flashcards. By 2012, the pair had left medical school to focus on the founding of Osmosis, in an attempt to bring their tools to a wider audience. A recent profile by the John A. Paulson School View Details

20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

31 Oct 2018
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Preaching with a Choir

Scott Barrick (MBA 1982) is general manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the interview,... View Details

05 Apr 2018
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50 Years After King

April 4, 1968, when King was assassinated, and one of four black girls from a class of 100 in Washington, DC. In the days that followed, while standing outside a Rhode Island... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

of the Navy. "Through Ironclaw," said the trim and articulate Baldwin in an interview with the Bulletin between classes last summer, "I wanted to give readers an everyday look at what life is like on a... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and unassuming, despite holding three degrees from MIT, where he was president of his... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve

As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (HBS 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

for me." And in real time, they design the payoffs to the security. Then I say, "Now, I'm going to show you how we price and analyze the risk of this just-created security." I take them through and apply the analysis, and boom - within a... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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A Message from Dean Clark

I know you will join me in congratulating the Class of 1972 as they observe this important milestone. This is an exhilarating time to be associated with HBS. The mission of the... View Details

21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights

Petzel. "I was already toying with the idea of an MBA, and I was allowed to sit in on classes at MIT's Sloan School and at HBS. I found the atmosphere at Harvard totally different; I much preferred the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'

first semester, 10 percent of the Class of 2022—70 people from a wide array of backgrounds—volunteered their own networks and knowledge to help.... View Details

Keywords: April White

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