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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
In previous columns, I have talked about our ongoing efforts to pilot lifelong learning opportunities for our alumni. Now I would like to report on some initial outcomes. In June, 73 members of the MBA Classes of 1995 to 2005 came to... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
Role-playing is not just for the psychiatrist's couch or the acting student, according to new research by HBS professor Herminia M. Ibarra. In studying how junior professionals learn the skills required to move into senior roles, Ibarra... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
For Christina Ehrenberg (MBA 2001), HBS is only the latest in a series of remarkable learning experiences — the world itself has been her greatest teacher, imparting to her a wisdom and composure that belie her years. An only child whose... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
yourself wanting to learn more and spend more time? At an early, highly personal phase like this, the best learning will be experimental, not analytical. For View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Trustees of Reservations? Since I started only last April, much of what I'm doing now is getting to know the organization. Eventually I will probably spend about half my time fundraising, because I think I can be a persuasive advocate, and supporters always want to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) For years, I dreamed of crossing America by bicycle for the physical and spiritual challenge, as well as the opportunity to meet people and View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
level of integrity. “You build trust when you are vulnerable. If the person you are dealing with has an incentive to harm you but comes through and does not, then you learn to trust him or her,” Malhotra... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
spirit. I started a skincare brand called Tatcha to share my learning journey with others and also to create the company I had always wanted to work for. Brad Murray (MBA 2007) became my cofounder and we grew Tatcha over the next nine... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
on glass-domed railway cars. Rewards of the biz: "I have learned so much on a personal and professional level by knowing people from cultures around the world. Cruising is a business where you're helping to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Removing Barriers
professionally and personally as I did.” With a strong belief that “funding shouldn’t be a factor” in the decision to attend HBS, Anita points out that it can be prohibitively expensive, especially for international students. “I want to... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
financial aid for MBA students, with a preference for US Marine Corps veterans. “My two biggest influences have been the Marines and Harvard,” says Burt, who after attending Princeton on an NROTC scholarship served three years in the Marines as a combat engineering... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to run Neutrogena.”... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
that—whether it’s building wells in an Ethiopian village, improving educational opportunities for girls in Kenya, or stopping the cycle of violence in American cities—WuDunn and Kristof aim to show the profound impact that even one person... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015) Photo courtesy Perelel A recent article in Forbes reports that reproductive health startup Perelel, cofounded by Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015), has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Unilever Ventures. The business was borne of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
lost girl. “We had this person who was completely forgotten, even by her surviving relatives,” said Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006), who pieced together the girl’s family tree and told the story to the Times of Israel. In his research, he was... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
quickly noticed a disconnect between the English language of an Albanian classroom and the one spoken in a New Haven dorm room, with classmates constantly asking her to repeat herself. Inspired by her experiences both in personal and... View Details