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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
to represent California's Orange County in the U.S. Congress. But when questioned about the job he's held for the last thirteen years, Cox replies, "Running for Congress was entirely an impulse decision. I did not even think about it until the View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
his study of indigenous traditions. “It was four days without food or water. Initially it was a prospect I couldn’t imagine, but I felt like a new being afterwards. It was very freeing,” he says. Sprinkles eventually became initiated as a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
their families. The school, which opened its doors in East Palo Alto, California, in 2016, integrates academics with health care and family support services, all of which is offered tuition free. “We knew the education system was broken,”... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
found his own voice along the way. From Sing to Me: When I go back to the very beginning, listening to jazz fusion bands and loving Miles Davis, or digging what James Brown represented, or even in my rock days worshipping at the shrine of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
ours was a unique time at the School, but it wasn't as though we were burning down buildings and joining the SDS - we worked very hard," continues O'Donnell, who has vivid memories of his first day at HBS. "We were greeted by the Dean in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
the successful founding teams I interviewed were made up of classmates, sectionmates, and even study groups from HBS. Michel and his Military.com cofounder, classmate Anne Dwane (MBA ’98), met on their first day at HBS and had been in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
fast-food joints proliferate. Globalization and downsizing affected blue- and white-collar workers alike. “Layoff” used to mean “temporary unemployment”; now it meant “loss of job.” David McNew/Getty Images If we worked only four hours a View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
less important than your subordinates. You are less important than the mission. You are less important than the team. The honor to lead is the honor of eating last, the honor of making sure your troops, your airmen, your sailors, your Marines are taken View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby had found them a newborn in... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
A Time To Celebrate: As with every year, Class Day and Commencement were filled with many memorable moments. Among the general scenes of pomp and pageantry were (middle) the faculty recipients of the Class of 2011’s awards for excellence... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
our day with research and teaching that will help prepare the next generation of leaders for the coming century. Here we offer a glimpse into some of the ways in which HBS is already expanding the notion of what’s possible across the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators. Workers in India’s Anganwadi... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
recalls a fateful day at home during the Christmas holidays when Bradach came over to finish the final plan. Hours on, after completing their task, Tierney recalls suddenly seeing themselves in the climactic scene in Butch Cassidy and the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
“Today is a pretty exciting day here,” Safe Passage Project executive director Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) says as soon as he picks up the phone in late October 2019. “As of today, we are representing 1,001 children who the US government is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
As Time magazine's national political correspondent, Karen Tumulty counts among her confidants some of the country's most powerful and influential people. But that doesn't mean she's forgotten her days at the San Antonio Light, where she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
suspended on that day to allow students, faculty, and staff time to follow events as they unfolded and to check on the safety of family and friends. Across the University, emergency grief counseling and other services were made available... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
working-capital needs of the business, we have to be careful to manage supply and demand." What one piece of advice would you give fellow alumni and current HBS students when it comes to startup life? "Keep going and stay positive.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
noting that word of mouth is the organization’s best marketing tool. While the ups and downs of the economy pose a challenge, Silbert says that with careful planning, CWE has weathered the recent economic downturn well. The mother of two... View Details