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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
other oftentimes gets lost. So I want it to be a two way street. And they were so happy with that. They said, you know what, if we get this going, we could probably live together, and there's so many things that we could do. And they and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
tick — putting structure to chaos and solving problems from big to small.” Before discovering what truly excited him, Wu was on a more traditional course. After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Connecticut in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could get to his position,” he says. “That’s how I ended up earning... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Harf's daughter Katharina, who serves as DKMS's COO. Like the happy endings that Harf has brought to many blood cancer patients, there is a silver lining to his personal struggle with loss. In 1995, while... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and the venture capital community; and on the flip side of my life, I’ve applied them when working on global poverty and inner-city education situations. HBS really showed me how to apply those skills to some of the biggest problems... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
might increase costs by 3–4 percent of world GDP, but the costs of inaction are far greater. She noted that, according to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment, climate change could cost the US 10 percent of its GDP by the end of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
rigorous case discussion at any HBS section including people with knowledge of Iraq and the Middle East, we would never have gone to war. The best way to avoid post-conflict problems is to avoid conflict. If conflict were forced upon us,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
at the end of the intensive three-week module, one student compared the experience to running a marathon. "First we stretched, then we warmed up, and then we ran," is how Dwayne Romero (HBS '97) described his nine-and-a-half-hour days... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
largest rivers. “Our biggest problem in Colombia, as in most of our underdeveloped countries, is poverty,” states Ospina. “And one way to fight poverty is through engineering.” The son of former Colombian president Mariano Ospina Perez,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
are being bombarded by irrelevant advertising at every turn," he says. "This isn't the result of marketers having too little data. Rather, it's because marketers are drowning in too much data — data that's disconnected and siloed, creating disconnected experiences.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
among Maine's business leaders and entrepreneurs, who left the event with a clearer understanding of the problems that keep Maine from attracting new business. At the end of the discussion, Governor King... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
started reflecting. The first thing I was concerned about, where am I going to find a manager to replace him? This was a difficult department to find just anyone. And then I started wondering, was the problem really all him or could it be... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
comes in a carcass, customer preferences, share size, order history. Formulas propose a suggested share, based on a selection of items we think will maximize this member’s happiness—within the constraints of our inventory,” Cummings says. View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
think, made me want to give in a more intense way, which is why I ended up working with a nonprofit for a year—kind of dedicating a year of my life on that. I also think, from a concrete perspective, just stepping away from the pace and... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
was proposed in this country’s Constitution and codified in its modern form in 1836, began to have serious problems in 1982. What went wrong? Two fundamental changes occurred that weakened the system considerably. The first had to do with... View Details