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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
ALUMNI ACHIEVERS: Cohen, Yeo, Moore, and Donaldson at a reception in the Deanââ¬â¢s Garden. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL To the four HBS graduates receiving this year’s Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor, HBS professor View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“It is not at all clear that when firms expand abroad they contract at home. If anything, you see the opposite.” — HBS professor MIHIR DESAI noting that foreign profits made by American firms put them in a better position to grow at home.... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports Enterprises, Daugherty has been the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy C. Shih,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
somewhat different, given the ongoing nature of the Disney story. Like any good Hollywood movie — packed with plot twists and memorable characters — it promises to keep its audience guessing for the foreseeable future. — Julia Hanna “Saving Disney” was the subject of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
groups make it clear that there are always approaches and angles to a problem that you can't think of by yourself. They make you appreciate other people's points of view. That carries over into business, where it's advantageous to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
small—almost like an insurance policy.” Angie’s List has deep HBS roots. Cofounder and venture capitalist Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) struggled to find service providers in Indianapolis to fix up his historic home, finally turning to Unified... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
presents research from outside Latin America, illustrating the broad range of approaches that have been fruitful in studying crime in developed nations. The People’s Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment edited by William... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
(Above: photo by Rick Pryce) Bill Tai (MBA 1987) is as renowned for his devotion to kiteboarding as for his savvy investments. Ten years ago, the “Kite VC,” as he is known in Silicon Valley, married his two... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Model Teamwork
commitment of two motivated veteran volunteers. Longtime class leader (and former HBS Fund Chair) Mike Johnston was joined by new cochair Bill Spears last summer. Invested in the future of the MBA Program,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
learning how to assess a player’s potential. DeWitt Jr. graduated from Yale University and HBS, but he had enrolled in Baseball U. many years earlier. At age six, as a batboy for the St. Louis Browns, he met Babe Ruth; when he was nine, Browns’ owner View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
through for him at a scary moment.” — Andy O’Brien, HBS Chief of Operations. (O’Brien, assisted by others, administered life-saving CPR to Howard Stevenson during a heart attack in front of Baker Library, January 2006.) “I asked Howard to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Clubs News Clubs News Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh President Bill Slivka (MBA 1976) (left) stands with guest speaker Michael McGarry (AMP 169 2005), Chairman and CEO of PPG, at the Association's Annual Meeting. Outgoing HBSA Pittsburgh... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
When Dean Nohria asked me to take over the role of Senior Associate Dean for External Relations from Bill Sahlman last July, I realized it was not going to be an easy task. Not only is Bill a giant in the... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise once pushed View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov