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- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Harvard President Derek Bok a letter outlining an ambitious vision for the School—one that hinged on rebuilding the faculty, high-quality research, and a welcoming academic community. Impressed, Bok asked McArthur to lead the School. In... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
Enriquez projects another image, filled with the letters ATCG in various combinations. The letters stand for adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine — the chemicals that make up DNA. Just as the floppy disk... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
going to have some very disappointed customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I am writing this letter on the heels of another wonderful reunion weekend at HBS. If you're like me, a "reunion zealot," you know how special these events are. Not only do reunions give us the chance to reconnect with dear friends, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This is my first letter to you in my capacity as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I am honored to carry on the work of my predecessor, Ed Hajim (MBA '64), who over the years has done so much for the School and its alumni. Ed has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
Only a few members of the group, including Maria Gulovich, who had hiked up the mountain to Vel’ký bok after Christmas dinner to tend the signal fire, escaped the German assault. The next day US planes dropped the supplies Green had been waiting for, along with View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
into a series of orphanages, his connection to his father coming mostly via letters and the occasional brief reunion. Morrell: But that period in your life, so fascinated me in the book. You know, you moved around from foster family to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
third attempt to gain entry to this elite fraternity, Snyder succeeded — with the stipulation that she obtain a permission letter from her husband, Fred Snyder, a pediatrician. (After she ignored the request, the requirement was quietly... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
something we reserve for leaders of exceptional quality, principle and experience. Senator Romney has exemplified the leadership and excellence we learned about and aspired to achieve at HBS.” Stone says Romney’s co-authoring of an open View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
His 2002 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, for example, asked, “Why have intelligent and decent directors failed so miserably?” No doubt he had the spectacular collapses at Enron and WorldCom in mind. After every scandal there... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
In 1943 John H. Johnson sent a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt inviting her to write for Negro Digest, a fledgling magazine that he had recently founded with a $500 loan. The First Lady politely replied that she was too busy at the time.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
customers abreast of issues according to their region," she notes. The company's customers generate approximately one hundred thousand phone calls and letters every month to support fast-moving progressive issues such as gun control,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
degree in Russian literature from Harvard. The colonel offered to write a letter of recommendation for Hall, but only if it was addressed to Harvard Business School. "I told him I couldn't see myself at Harvard. I was in a war zone, and I... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world," and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
by the number of personal papers — mostly diaries and family letters — contained in these business records. “These personal writings reveal the depth of the Historical Collections and underscore the variety of ways that the business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
at HBS, I had classmates inform me I was depriving a man of a spot at the School.” When her husband, Louis Cohen, finished his studies at Harvard Law School and was offered a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, Cohen wrote some fifty View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen subsequently left the company, which at the time was one of the ten highest-ranked German firms in the field of industry, trade, transport, and roster excellence. Among the many tributes to Andresen on his departure from SABO was a View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
article. "The paper was looking to do a story on a business that had really struggled," explains Shafir, now seated in a spacious meeting room at Kettle Cuisine's soon-to-be-finished new plant. "They came to the right place!" Shafir liked the article, which prompted... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
academic scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he competed for and won a spot on the football team, and earned a varsity letter and several championship rings. Despite playing behind a Heisman Trophy winner and four NFL draft... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
out with Nextel? One person knew a career not to be taken: Jim Stern decided against retail. His rejection letter from J.C. Penney won a Harbus contest and was published in the paper. The future banking mogul did, however, win the stock... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer