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- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
nonprofit entrepreneurial ventures have begun to address the need for cadavers. Generally, recruiters for these ventures target those for whom death is likely to be top of mind. "They'll set up a stand at a retirees' convention, go to nursing View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that I think nobody I know really understood," Light said. To illustrate his point about the interlocking nature of housing and the U.S. financial system, Light said that for decades beginning in the 1930s, the ratio... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in Madison, Wisconsin. Nick (AMP... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
certain wariness of what one alum referred to as “the dreaded ‘R’ word.” “I look forward to being completely retired — after my funeral, maybe,” wrote one member of the Class of 1960 for his 40th Reunion profile. “Retirement is not on my... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
give rice to feed the children. That’s how he fed them at first. He’s really amazing, a hero.” With help from his parents, who retired and moved back to India, Kundu’s foundation took on major support for the orphanage, which, at the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Rough start: “I remember coming home from the Naval Academy for Christmas leave as a freshman, and my GPA going into finals was a 0.91. But I loved the challenge, and I adapted.” Ahoy there: “My first... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle,... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
in New York, working with inner-city at-risk youth. He saw a presentation by then-NFTE president Steve Mariotti and was impressed by the organization’s practical curriculum for teaching entrepreneurship. Bhargava and his wife, Aruna, a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
overlapping board work and corporate partnerships. “If I wasn’t the first person to call, I was darn close,” he says. “I asked her what she was going to do.” “I told Jeffrey I was going to retire and think about what else to do,” Whitman... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
choice. The audience included retiring CEOs and board members wondering how to give advice in this market, people in mid-career transitions, and recent MBA grads trying to figure out next steps." Kwok says the discussion and subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
by saying, ‘Jack is the former chairman of Vanguard, a $4 trillion enterprise.’ I say, ‘No, it’s a 15,000-people enterprise, serving 25 million people.’ The assets are the outcome, not the goal.” Home Equity “I went door-to-door in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
jungle for four or five days. Kaziranga National Park is a favorite. It’s been one of India’s great success stories for rhino conservation.” Back to top Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic, Inc. Family ties: “My... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
turned to his first love—the ocean—for his next adventures, inspired in no small part by his daughter Lily, who was born in 2009 with a rare genetic disorder that has left her severely disabled. “My original idea of a typical retirement... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007 highs. While the United States... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details