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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
into him (twice) on my way to the coatrack. It was super crowded, and we kept getting pushed, though my husband claims I bumped into him on purpose. It wasn’t until the happy hour that evening in Spangler that we started talking. We then View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
regretfully. But if Weber occasionally can't make family gatherings, it's not for lack of trying. Consider the events of a Saturday last winter, when Vickers was in the middle of an acquisition deal: "In the morning I took my son to his hockey game and View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the waiting rooms where drivers sat until their cars were ready. Better yet, while their cars were getting the once-over, drivers could be given blood and urine tests. "It's been a terrific success," says Mukhtar. "Awareness among the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
mission. And as I was walking out of the door my dad looked up and said, son, when you finish firing my manager I expect you to replace him with your manager. And yours better be as good as mine. So as I was on the way back to take care of the job at hand, I stopped in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the founding CEO of Palm and the cofounder of Handspring, ushering in two of the tech ages biggest leaps—handheld computing, and the smart phone. So, she's essentially been famously successful by being right about the future. We sat down... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
children be part of the journey has been so meaningful.” Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Founder, Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies; Mayor, New York City, 2002–2013 Honesty and ethics: “When my family sat down for dinner, my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Campus Martius Park. The city’s mile road system originates here; 8 Mile is eight miles away. In the 1990s, when the park was first conceived, it was a signal of a future for the neighborhood; Cummings sat on the board that designed it.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
But I stopped for dinner at a Ruth's Chris in St. Louis, and I sat down, and ordered a meal and a beer. And I thought, man, what happened? What was that all about? And 2010 is when I started thinking about 2005. And maybe that's just when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
You’ve amassed 182 interviews with leaders all over the world. Where did this project come from? Geoff Jones: Actually, a Chilean shipping entrepreneur sat right here in my office and after hearing me go on about how history matters for... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
As David Linn (MBA 2000) and his wife of five years, Jen Goodman Linn (MBA 1999), sat across a table for two at an outdoor cafe in Manhattan, they looked like any other young couple sharing lunch on a sunny spring day. But there was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
said, "I'll tell you what, come back tonight after we're closed. I will teach you how to make this pizza." And we made the trip back. We sat down with him. He spent a lot of time with me. His name is Gaetano Vespoli. And we're still... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
great-grandfather. Macridis sat in on meetings with the SYRIZA government early in 2015 and saw the writing on the wall. “I found them unrealistic and hostile to what for-profit institutions need,” he says. Chryssafidis, one of the 10... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
personable alone will not heal decades of deep wounds, but there was one bit of training he had prior to the negotiations: a half-unit course on negotiation taught by Professor Howard Raiffa during Eamer’s second year at HBS. Even though it had been more than 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
I come to this pleasant ville of Oz and I'm like, what the-- this is incredible. And I sat in a biggie class about Russia as a visitor. And the conversation was like 10,000 leagues over my head. Like, I couldn't even-- I was like, oh, my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
reward. After a year, the researchers sat down to analyze the results. Ashraf is a behavioral economist, so she knows people make financial decisions in complex ways, but even she was surprised by what they found: Hairdressers with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
bear of a man sat down next to me. I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw that it was the Dean! He leaned over and said, “You look pretty down in the mouth. What’s wrong?” I thought for a moment about how to respond, and then I... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
to be a very good meeting. I went and sat in a chair in front of his desk. The guy completely excoriated me, and there was almost no curse word that he didn't have a full command of, and used it, and it was a horrific experience because... View Details