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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discouraged. After graduating from Harvard College in 1997, she arrived in Silicon Valley just as the Internet began to enter everyday life. Maybank worked as an investment banker on some of the first Internet IPOs before joining eBay;... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
southeast Australia, with supportive, attentive parents who created opportunities for success. His dad was the first in four generations to attend college and he worked as the high school principal. “We were very involved in the local... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
day. That seemed like a wonderful way to make a living. " By high school, the Brooklyn-born Kingdon was already authoring an investment newsletter. After attending Columbia College in New York City and then HBS, Kingdon decided to take... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
College is launching Level Up, a program that will partner with Scranton and other local high schools to enable juniors and seniors to work toward an associate’s degree at the cost of $100 per credit. “Despite the uphill battle we still... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
his talents in a smaller operation. He became president of Custom-Made Packaging, Inc., working out a financing deal that he gradually converted into a majority stake. Within seven years, he had turned the firm around and sold it to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
brings in thousands of local schoolchildren. The MCA recently received the Arts & Business Council of Chicago's "On Target" award for its "Stir It Up" college outreach program. The museum also plays host to a teen apprentice program as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
metaphor also caught the eye of HBS professor Jeff Polzer and HBS associate professor Scott Snook. The pair has produced a case about the behind-the-scenes dynamics surrounding a college crew team. But unlike the beautiful images favored... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
positioned to take advantage of other investment opportunities in China. Kuhns Brothers, his Connecticut-based investment bank, raises financing for Chinese companies, and his private equity firm, the China Hand Fund, makes investments in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
of As the Future Catches You and Evolving Ourselves, presents a lively and engaging guide to ethics in a technological age. Not the Seasons I Expected: A Fan's Memoir by Blant Hurt (MBA 1991) Fairbourne Publishing When it comes to college... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
have embedded authority from my age, so I had to earn their respect,” Markowitz explains. The job also helped her begin to develop a core value: “I try to respect everyone as a human being. You can’t succeed unless you understand all perspectives.” Markowitz moved into... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
threads in Simons’s career. He grew up in a musical family, studied piano and trumpet, and chose a joint music and neuroscience major at Harvard College to investigate the physiologic basis of music therapy. “That turned out to be a space... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
passion for rowing and a desire to make a difference in Mexico. “Rowing is my meditation,” says the Pan American Games medalist who continues to participate in international rowing competitions. He returned to Mexico for college and has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
tedious administrative jobs in organizations." But I found the teaching at HBS a lot more animated and accessible than the teaching at Harvard College. The College was relentlessly academic, and few academics have the outgoing... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
Bill Corbin (MBA 1968). After relocating to Columbus, Ohio, Oesterle bought another old house and ran into the same problem. In 1995 he convinced Hicks (who had worked for him as a college intern) to move to Columbus to start their own... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
legendary impresario Charlie Finley was having trouble finding a radio station to broadcast his struggling team’s games, the young entrepreneur made his pitch. “I called Mr. Finley ten days before Opening Day, and we negotiated at first without him knowing that I... View Details