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- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... 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... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
guilty, about taking the time for reflection, careful analysis, or long-term planning. Many actually get turned on by "firefighting" and crises; they have an emergency addiction. But when people compromise their integrity and burn... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and implants. “One of the greatest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research, venture-capitalist Henry McCance (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Loyalty, and Maximize Profits by John A. Goodman (MBA ’71) (Amacom) Managing the Publishing Process by Ralph Hancox (PMD 26, 1973) (CCSP Press) Cured! The Insider's Handbook for Health Care Reform by Stephen... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
scoop: Naomi Wolf and the alpha male The Better Half 12/28/98 Hillary Clinton shines as husband declines Let's Play Doctor 7/13/98 Politicians and health care Why Subsidies Survive 3/25/96 Congress and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
special. My competitive nature led me to contact a local dog club about showing her in competition, and one thing led to another. For about a year I went almost every weekend to a dog show with Anni and served as kennel help and doer of odd jobs taking View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fifty years after the first eight women enrolled in the two-year MBA Program at HBS, 800 alumni came to campus to celebrate that milestone. As part of the School's April W50 Summit, HBS hosted two days of panels, workshops, and presentations covering everything from... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
facilitates digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. And it allows doctors and other medical experts to collaborate on complex cases in a virtual clinical environment. Jarzabek had seen the value of digital connection firsthand when... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
develop potential business opportunities. During our village stays, faculty leader and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu has asked us to observe and think about how villagers take care of the basics of everyday life: housing, food, income,... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced structure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and... View Details
- 31 Aug 2017
- News
Sir Harpal Kumar: Making A Difference
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
NFLers Tackle HBS
More than 35 active players from a number of National Football League teams, including the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, and Minnesota Vikings, spent a week at HBS in February in a custom Executive Education program. Now in its sixth year, the program is taught by... View Details
- 22 Jun 2012
- News
At the i-lab, a New Use for Silk
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Angeles–based dialysis provider TRC. Thiry (MBA 1983) had just completed a difficult, ultimately unsuccessful term as CEO of another health care organization. After that experience, he pledged to join his... View Details
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