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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
Adams Photo Courtesy Business Wire For more than twenty years, Jacqueline J. Adams reported on important people, issues, and events as a correspondent for CBS News. A Boston native, Adams began her career in her hometown in 1972 as a... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
it's a lesson learned, it gives me something to take on the journey. So I can't say that there's anything that I would consider like a colossal professional failure. When I think about business failures, when I was at Viacom, I had the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small businesses choose... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
transferred back to domestic investment banking. They were having a riff, actually quite a few, I thought, excellent people were then let go, and I was one of them. My first reaction was disbelief. I’ve had a great career at Merrill Lynch. I’ve run a View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Division I college coaches, she had to get inventive. “I made a homemade highlight tape,” Feickert recalls. She sent the video, set to cheesy pump-up music, to the nation’s top basketball programs. Soon, the coaches she dreamed of playing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA '89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has become the industry leader in a new business spawned by the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
and general manager of the East Coast Division of Nordstrom, Inc.; and Ralph C. Thomas III, associate administrator of NASA. "We negotiate with the companies to sponsor the cost of the dinner meeting for the MBA students, and then we have... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
recently left UCB and currently leads the procurement division at Adidas. That’s when she discovered Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, a first-of-its-kind course offered through the HBS Executive Education Program,... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
and systems, I'd lose the finance side." On the subject of finance, she emphasizes, "The bottom line is that the Olympics - especially when they're privately funded - are a big business in which you're trying to make a profit. Some people... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Division of Research from 1953 to 1968, died on March 14. He was 92. Fox joined the HBS faculty in 1949 and served at the School for 25 years. He was the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
of Staples, Inc., will be the first to tell you, thank goodness he got canned. On July 4, 1985, Stemberg - who had been let go by First National Supermarkets earlier that year as the firm prepared to sell his division - ran out of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
working papers. This activity covers an enormous variety of business and organizational issues; taken as a whole, it constitutes an unmatched resource for the study and improvement of current management practice. To see for yourself,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
corporate divisions before becoming an executive vice president. During her twelve years with the company, Marshall was a key player in Sallie Mae's transition from a lender-services business into a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
trade publishing divisions —which include Bantam Dell, Knopf, Doubleday Broadway, Ballantine, Crown, and Random House —published over 3,500 titles; 169 landed on the New York Times bestseller list; 28 sold over one million copies.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Lawrence E. Fouraker, Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1970 to 1980 and an early advocate of a global perspective in management education, died of viral pneumonia on December 20 in Brookline, Mass. He was 74. Fouraker joined the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
growth rate. Clearly eBay was doing something right.” At the time, Whitman was a general manager of the Preschool Division of the Rhode Island–based toy company Hasbro, overseeing brands like Mr. Potato Head and Teletubbies. eBay’s... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
with the division of British-ruled India into two independent countries: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. It resulted in the displacement of an estimated 15 million people and the deaths of hundreds of thousands—some... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry