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- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
more focused on maximizing shareholder value." Specifically, a class taught by Professor Josh Lerner on venture capital prompted her to write a paper on the nature of value. "I wrote a paper calling for a different kind of value... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
history of the shuttle program. When students come to class they have a general understanding of NASA but only specific knowledge — from the point of view of their assigned “character” — of what has occurred during the first half of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
percent of the class would have known what he was talking about. “Today, it’s more than 50 percent. Students understand that those are important considerations that are going to affect their organizations and their careers,” observes... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Chao Photo Stuart Cahill As part of the orientation for the MBA Class of 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao (MBA '79) told 899 entering students that they had an obligation to help fix the American free-enterprise system. “This... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
electrodes deliver pulses that spur the release of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that stimulate the neurons that carry messages throughout the brain. This targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
papers. He noted while “some of the first-year students felt that their painful literary efforts deserved male consideration,” HBS had discovered that “competent young ladies could be employed and trained to do a more careful, dependable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
When Alexander C. Crisses stepped up to cochair his 5th Reunion, he decided to couple his own ideas about what would appeal to his classmates with the tried-and-true strategies used by HBS alumni with experience leading their successful View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
globe,” notes Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022), who cofounded Umbulizer in 2017 and serves as chief medical officer. Before the pandemic developed, Umbulizer’s affordable device was already in use in hospitals and mobile medicine settings in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
others makes him an inspiring example to all." Professor David A. Thomas, the chair's first incumbent, was among those attending the event. A noted authority on mentoring, executive development, and managing a diverse workforce, Thomas... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
A Class Notes correspondent for ten years and counting, Shoshanah (“Shosh”) Cohen came to her 10th Reunion first and foremost “to find out what everyone's been up to.” Second was for an event that she helped... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
HBS student clubs. The trek brought 150 second-year students to the Valley to explore career opportunities during winter break. Darwall, who notes that fewer than twenty members of her class moved to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
MCC’s explicit selection criteria,” notes Bloom. “We’ve also seen African countries who have not yet qualified seeking advice from those who have. Most valuably, countries have made important legal, economic policy, and institutional... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
together so much might also exacerbate some instant dislikes between students, but fortunately I don’t hear about those in the class notes and am happy to highlight below only the positive examples of high... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us see the connection between support of the HBS Fund and the priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke at our View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
collaboration, noting that there is a "proven demand for women in business." A year later, Bulletin readers learned that HBS would "provide most of the faculty and instructional material and will be responsible for the [Radcliffe]... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
expensive performances,” says Hodges, noting that last year’s new production of Swan Lake by Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen proved the perfect test case for dynamic pricing. “A big takeaway for the team was that people are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
raised $95 million for fellowships, helped by the work of an alumni and friends Fellowship Advisory Board, formed in 2003. “When I was a student, it was assumed you would earn a good living when you graduated and quickly repay your loans,” View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
career services, curriculum development, executive education, alumni relations, and publishing,” says David Lampe, the School’s executive director of Marketing and Communications. The survey, developed and administered with the help of the independent firm Cogent... View Details