class of 49 - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)

on military principles, on military leadership and organization. I didn’t have any background in accounting, marketing, and those kinds of topics, and I was sitting in a class with people who caused my brain... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Sep 2015
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Feedback

Military Memories Re: The Military and the MBA Photo courtesy of Phil Curtis As a member of the Class of 1974, we were thrown into the midst... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Moir Donelson

Moir Donelson's first year at West Point wasn't easy. "Brains," as his Southside Chicago buddies called him, was valedictorian, class president, and a football star at his high school, yet he found it difficult to make a C average at the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

now have a plan which promises to satisfy the somewhat divergent demands of instructor-to-student relationship, the juxtaposition of students to stimulate class discussion, and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

prosper. We know that many white banks, for example, the Bank of Italy, they were the beneficiary of the federal government after the Second World War saying that, "We want to create a middle View Details

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

Rwanda. In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1999
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Pearson Hunt

installations so that courses would be pertinent to winning the war. Classes met year-round, and the pace was hectic: I remember one year when the Fourth of July was not a holiday, just another Thursday.... View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners. Later, with the support of Sealed Air and his wife, Joan, a former English professor, he pledged to fund a college education for students in a sixth-grade View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami

The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

native of Finland who competed in track on a full scholarship at Georgia Tech before graduating at the top of her class with a degree in Systems Engineering. “The case method... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally

international student body — 33 percent of the MBA Class of 2003 — that our course materials are drawn from diverse country environments that illustrate cross-border and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 May 2014
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The Sky's the Limit

performance resulted in more opportunity—this time at Harvard—in the Program for Management Development (PMD). It was an experience that opened her eyes to the world. "Seventy percent of the class was... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; women's issues; avaition; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 2002
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Karen Gordon Mills

years in business. “I've learned how to see the path ahead and motivate people to move forward productively,” she says. “I can't see the future, but I can see what makes sense and where to go. That gives me a lot of satisfaction.” —... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Zest to Invest

all-time low," the woman says softly, but urgently, an unplugged trader's headset dangling from her head. "S&P's way off. Should we short the Mexican peso?" "What do you think?" Kingdon asks, interested. "I think we should." "Sure," he says. "Go ahead." A veteran View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

classmates for two years built poise, which is incredibly important when you’re constantly in front of customers, retailers, investors, or even the Sharks! Wiegele: “We also took a digital marketing strategy and e-commerce View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

In a speech he delivered the day before his graduation from HBS, Class Day speaker John Crowley (MBA '97) observed, "In time, we will all acquire a certain amount of responsibility and power. I encourage... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

yoga class in her life - soon found herself fully ensconced in an office in Kripalu's main building, a large but unadorned former seminary overlooking the hills of scenic western Massachusetts. To help... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

ownership. “We spent much of the day being fascinated by what we were seeing — then it came down to preparing something concrete,” says Camille. “Because we didn’t know anything about the market beforehand, we spent a lot View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

(MBA 1985), a senior lecturer at HBS. “I was the oldest, from the Class of 1981, while the youngest one on the panel graduated in 2018,” says Donaher. “Every panelist gave a summary View Details