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Marie Kyle

Bain & Co. led to an "externship" with The Bridgespan Group, a consultancy founded by a former HBS professor focused on the unique challenges of the nonprofit world. Within months, an interest that had been a sideline at... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

Beverly and Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA '69) joined the celebration. Heidi M. Brooks and Mishka Pitter (both HBS '03) led tours of the campus for launch guests. Dean Kim B. Clark, President Lawrence H. Summers, and Campaign Chair C.D.... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Amy S. Langer

knows the subject all too well: Langer herself is a breast cancer survivor whose own bout with the disease seventeen years ago led her to leave a successful career at Lehman Brothers to fight cancer on behalf of other women, including... View Details

Portrait Project

Patricia Barron

Bad knees and growing boredom teaching dance led to a career shift. A friend suggested HBS – I was "at least as smart as the bottom half of his class." Hence my adventure from dancer to Board Vice Chair of a major corporation. I... View Details

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The Roundtables - Entrepreneurship

Rock 100 Boston: The Roundtables Rock 100 Boston: The Roundtables is an intimate gathering for HBS rising entrepreneurial alumni from New England. The October 18-19, 2018 event features small group discussions led by HBS faculty and ‘Rock... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

The Heart of the Deal

an HBS classmate of Burke’s, a connection that led to the code word “Crimson” during part of the deal’s secret negotiations, the New York Times (December 3, 2009) reported. The transaction “began in earnest” last March, according to the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

A Climate Change Optimist

power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For Green America, that’s meant leading consumer campaigns... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe

25 Apr 2016
News

Just Rewards

Michael Darrington (PMD 27, 1974) believes in putting people first. As CEO of Greggs, which he led for 24 years to become the United Kingdom’s baking industry leader and in previous positions where he oversaw strategic turnarounds. He has... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

New York Club Focuses on Entrepreneurship

awards dinner. More than five hundred attendees listened to a compelling keynote address by America Online CFO Michael Kelly and participated in a seminar led by HBS associate professor Amar V. Bhidé that touched on the findings of his... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou

entrepreneurs. “It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches. It's a very open city in which to take a risk,” says Wilkins. “After Katrina, everyone needed to become an entrepreneur. Everyone needed to start over. Everyone had to open up shop again.”... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971

were able to safely return to earth. The Apollo 13 experience taught Lovell the importance of team work, a lesson he now shares with audiences around the world in his career as a public speaker. He also draws on his 25 years in the business world, where he has View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

and what we teach at Harvard Business School.” Professor Krishna Palepu led nearly ninety faculty members in an afternoon-long discussion on the fallen corporate giant. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Because the symposium drew on... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Herbert W. Hoover, Jr.

Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, succeeding his father as president in 1954, Hoover learned the ins and... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Henry F. Henderson, Jr.

After working at Richardson Scale Company for a number of years, Henderson’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to start Henderson Industries (HI) in 1952. Winning a contract from Richardson, HI began growing rapidly. Manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

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Marques Torbert

Educational Opportunity (SEO), led to a full-time position in the M&A department after graduation; a job Marques held for two years. “Playing” with the school’s money After another three years with Clarion Capital, Marques “was... View Details

Joseph A. Martino

Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO, National Lead was among the top 50 U. S. firms in terms of... View Details

Keywords: Metals

Edward DeBartolo

In 1950, DeBartolo built Boardman Plaza in Youngstown, Ohio, considered one of the first suburban malls in the United States. The success of this mall sparked a major investment and development campaign which led to the construction of... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

support that leverages on-demand and community-based learning in schools to ensure high-fidelity instruction, and he led the operationalization of the new service model nationwide. Isaac remarked , “For me, the Goldsmith Fellows will be... View Details

08 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

Greatest CEOs of All Time." "I was glad to see that the article focused on Johnson & Johnson's values," he observes. Fortune praised Burke for reaffirming the corporate principles and values that later led to his decision in 1982 to pull... View Details

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