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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)
Nwogugu with students at Aunty Ayo Girls Comprehensive School in Lagos (photo by Ruth McDowall/The Verbatim Agency) I volunteered at Junior Achievement (JA) in New York when I was working at Goldman Sachs after college. I realized that if... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
“Invigorating” is the word Marne Levine (MBA 2005) uses to describe her work at Facebook. As vice president of global partnerships and business development, a role she took on in February, Levine oversees a broad swath of the company’s original content programming,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that bought soap. I’m probably most... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation in 1989 and opened the 1848... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
i-lab Buzz
for Leadership Development) course. A tour of the building, the former offices of PBS’s WGBH-TV, shows how dramatic the 10-month transformation has been. A warren of narrow hallways with low ceilings and dark-tinted windows has been replaced View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
the long haul is to do what is best for investors by focusing on generating a high rate of return rather than the perhaps easier task of increasing dollars under management. Judging by how fast the typical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Illustrations by Chris Philpot Andrew Faulkner Homer, Alaska, “Halibut Capital of the World” CV: Structural engineer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (construction), Chicago “When I was accepted to the MBA Program, I called to make sure it was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Sebenius says, “but a lot of our students and executives face counterparts who aren’t interested in playing by those rules. So what happens when you encounter someone with a great deal of power, like Wal-Mart, who is also the ultimate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images News “Fast” and “unexpected” are two words Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002) uses to describe his work as CEO of GrupoBeer, a Madrid-based corporation providing post-disaster services such as building... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
weeks (the man does not let up!), the students come to appreciate the intensity and rapid-fire humor of their teacher. Clearly, he cares. A lot. And by the end of the semester, something transformative has happened: They are better... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Post-Grad Ponderings
in the evenings.” Next stop: London, for a job search. Guests: Parents and sister, from Colorado and Utah. Rachel Keyser, MBA What got you through your degree? “I got by with a little help from my friends.” Next stop: CVS Caremark. HBS... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
HBS has shaped me as a leader is by showing that the right technical answer might not do you much good at all if you can't also manage the very real people challenges." Spencer describes his other duties as a combination of financial... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
Above: Horowitz (seated) and Goldberg: More than the same old song and dance (photo by HollenderX2) When Evan Horowitz (MBA 2008) and Geoffrey Goldberg first met, the two clicked on multiple levels. Married in 2013, the pair cofounded... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna