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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
thing in common: Harvard MBAs. Visitors to Crawford, Texas, get presidential treatment. A billboard with the town’s most famous part-time resident, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), gives the “thumbs-up” while First Lady Laura Bush... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
like Watson regularly in the Reserves and has helped the Call of Duty Endowment—the largest private funder of employment for veterans—create a solid path forward for them. “Veterans tend to leave their first jobs after military service... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
year after year. Sure, business can drive positive change, but it can also stunt it and slow it. One of the first things that supposedly business-friendly President Ronald Reagan did upon taking office in 1981 was to remove the solar... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
lost all five fingers on his left hand while trying to protect his men from a defective distraction grenade that exploded prematurely. Jefferson was hospitalized for months and then well for the first time in years, he didn’t know what... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
even harder to help those in need. Lu, who began doing volunteer work at an early age, has a deep-seated interest in public-sector work. Rather than pursuing the traditional private-sector path the summer after her first year at HBS, Lu... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
Manby (MBA '85) Courtesy Joel Manby Web Extra Undercover Boss: Watch the Joel Manby Episode As I reached out to shut off my alarm at 3 a.m. — wake-up time for my first day as a street washer — I wondered, “What have I gotten myself into?”... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
magazine cosponsored "Jamizon," a national urban music festival that toured two dozen cities. Entrepreneurial Drive Clinkscales's remarkable accomplishments began with a fundamental observation that led him to launch his View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Harley Frankel (MBA 1966) is dedicated to bringing change to the field of education. During a long career in education policy at the federal level, he led the National Head Start program; helped to develop the forerunner of the Pell Grant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
viewed a compelling video featuring members of the HBS community articulating what the School has meant to them. The School’s first capital campaign concluded on December 31, 2005, substantially exceeding its $500 million goal. (A final... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
postdoctoral students who are pursuing careers in science. Labs have many different projects under investigation simultaneously. Most labs have annual budgets of $1 million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from institutions like the View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of Saddam Hussein in a town in southern... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
John Doerr Photo courtesy of John Doerr The summer after his first year at HBS, armed with a master's in electrical engineering from Rice University, John Doerr moved to California for two reasons. "I wanted to apprentice with a venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
UNIVERSITY Bishop William Lawrence of Harvard University approached George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, to request a $1 million gift to the School. After a few months had... View Details