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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
balancing my left and right brain. It probably also explains why my last four cars have been sporty SUVs. —Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Back to top “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy” J&J was confronted with a major crisis in October... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
comfortable are probably not paying enough attention,” she says. As someone skilled at balancing accolades and apprehension, Abby Johnson seems to be in just the right place. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1961... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
probably a reason the world didn’t particularly want it.” The Blackstone way: “We believe in meritocracy, openness, and horizontal management. The only difference is that some of us are a little older and have more data—but that doesn’t... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Come Sail Away
When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Tigers. "Consumer product markets in Vietnam are starting to reach capacity, but if you look at companies in the intermediate manufacturing sectors, such as those that serve the car and television industries, there will be many opportunities," she says. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
You Are: 15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind). I was probably the lowest-paid member of my class, but that experience led to writing about careers and leadership for HBR, the New York Times, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest disappointment: “Oh, View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,” Ferguson remarks. “It’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
recalls, “and I brought up what Deward had said, and asked if he thought big ag had our Cherokee seeds and what we should do about it. “His answer was, ‘Yeah, they probably have them. But that doesn’t matter.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
that he has seriously injured, and probably killed, persons of another race. “I have an anger problem,” confesses the soft-spoken Mike, who’s spent twenty years, off and on, in some of California’s toughest prisons. But now, with a job... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
taught so little,” he observes. “I’m the big beneficiary right now. There are 2.1 million teachers out there, and they all could probably teach math better than I can. I’m selfish — I really want to do this for me.” Most of his DLJ... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
explains. "Within that year, I probably said I was quitting two or three times." She didn't. Eventually, Adi relented and gave his daughter free rein. Friends and colleagues describe the Agrovet episode as the opening act in Nisa's... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
So here’s a consumer, and probably 70 to 80 percent of the beer that she drinks is NA at this point.” The growth in the segment is encouraging, and Anheuser-Busch will remain a big player, but it’s still a small base of business,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
you're probably as anxious as I am, but I hear you're all in a good mood because the Blues won last night." So the room exploded and people started cheering and said, "Go Blues." And it kind of broke the ice. So I thought, "Wow! That's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
legacy remains, and he would doubtless be the first to say he had a great run. As for the right words to sum up his career, not surprisingly, MacDonald himself probably says it best. Once asked how he’d like his epitaph to read, he... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Groysberg. "HBS is a school full of Michael Jordans. It makes you want to produce because you have been given resources, time, and more than enough attention." He found that, like Bigfoot, this person probably does not exist. In fact, the... View Details