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- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
play in helping the former Soviet states become integrated into the global economy. Vlachoutsicos would become a key player in that process. Beginning as far back as 1956, as a partner at his family business Ch. Vlachoutsicos Enterprises,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
Spangler Center — a community gathering place made possible by C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler, Jr. (MBA ’56) and his family — and Hawes Hall, a new classroom building made possible by a gift from Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA ’69). Also... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
represent the USA by continually competing around the world, at the highest level of the sport, so I feel like it’s my obligation to share it with as many disabled people and their families as possible,” he says. The nonprofit, which... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
are times when I’m hankering for nonfiction, either a biography or something topical, such as Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe’s page-turner history of the Sackler family that seems to have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
call with his team. “I think the decision drove a tremendous amount of confidence,” he says. He saw many of his peers in the tech industry scrambling; Stack Overflow, in contrast, was inherently prepared for the transition. Lumry Family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
obesity is contagious: If my family and friends are obese, the likelihood of me being obese is much higher. Later studies refuted that claim because of the inherent problem of homophily, which simply means that birds of a feather flock... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
little-understood retinal condition that is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. Despite its onset, Gibbons was raised with the expectation that he would excel in life. “My family didn’t tolerate low performance,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
Morrell Tell me about your own childhood—how was the idea inspired by your own experience? We're from Lebanon originally, and my family left there when I was 6, while the country was in the middle of war. We literally left on a boat and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
community. Previous Next The world at home Leigh Rawdon (MBA ’01) Founder, Tea Collection “I know that when I travel, and especially when I take my family traveling, it’s a transformative experience . There’s a spirit of openness, warmth,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
look at the statistics, real wage growth among working-class Americans has been relatively stagnant,” said Kaplan. Meanwhile, “the cost of everything a middle-class family pays for — food, energy, education, and health care — has gone... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of Macondo. "Every year, during... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
kids being kids, he often had to negotiate peace on the field. “I had to keep people from fighting,” he says, “because I couldn’t fight everyone.” Eamer is also even-keeled, a quality that is perhaps equal parts nature and nurture. While on a volunteer mission with his... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration; Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration; and researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
of what a family would otherwise pay to help their daughter advance. It’s incredibly exciting to have Lynda and HBS a part of this effort to give under-resourced women and girls a real leg-up.” View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
person—a better friend, parent, work colleague, boss, wife, sister, and family member. They have impacted all facets of my life.” Geraldine Alias (MBA 2007) The Boardroom The Boardroom is the capstone experience for the first year of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
growing up in Bern, Switzerland, centered around a daily occurrence that is almost unimaginable in today's world: "You always came home for lunch," he says, recalling that the family would sit down to eat and listen to the news on the... View Details