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- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
Christ Church in Washington's Georgetown section, in fact, where she met Jay when they both signed up to volunteer in a soup kitchen. After marrying in 1991 and several years of trying to have a child, they... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
remarks, Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at KSG, lamented the performance of Washington pols. “As a group, the people running Washington over the last twenty years have failed,” creating a backlog of... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
professor left us with: “to increase the value of a call option, crank up the volatility.” At first, this doesn’t sound inspirational. Let me explain. When I arrived at HBS, after four years of building... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Investors Have an Impact
make a difference and give back to society. And that in itself was highly rewarding and fulfilling for me. “When I grew up in the Philippines, I experienced a contrast between poverty and material wealth. And throughout my View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984), and Marcel Telles (OPM 10, 1985)—acquiring or rolling out new craft beer divisions in the past few years to keep up with consumers' changing palates. Here's a look at some of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
1968 or 1969, and Seattle was on an economic roll. People were apologetic when you called them up because they were late on their bill. And they'd get you the money. The following year was the big Boeing... View Details
- Profile
Estevan Santiago
inner workings of the human body and even dressed up as a doctor for Halloween every year from 1st to 5th grade. This passion drove me to eventually major in Human Biology. While I didn’t end View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
gearing up to open its second center in Latin America over the summer. But Ryan, a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, was well prepared for the School's accelerating interest in international... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
tuberculosis. After several years working in the lab, Kim began to wonder if she was in the right role. Then COVID hit, and demand for the company’s products surged. “My CEO asked if I could step away from the bench into a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
(photo by Michael Hanson) I had a psychotic break in late fall of my second year at HBS. I thought I was Jesus, that I could walk on the Charles and baptize people. I was at McLean over winter break, and the same day that I got out I... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with Private Equity firms and coaches HBS students... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Profile
Frank Spencer
didn't wake up one morning and say, 'I no longer want to be a public CEO; I think I want to be a preacher," he says. "The church has always been a part of how I've structured my life." Recently, that relationship became... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mora Segal
"When I grow up, I am going to be a judge, a senator... or maybe even president! Oh no you're not, little girl..." When I was seven years old my picture appeared in an advertisement in Newsweek for the National Organization for... View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- News
Elevating Women at Fidelity
In the wake of sexual harassment allegations at Fidelity, Abby Johnson (MBA 1988) has stepped up a concerted effort to promote women within the 72-year-old firm, according to Bloomberg. "A year ago Fidelity... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
year we set up a recording tent on Spangler lawn and asked alumni returning for reunions a simple question. What was your first job and what did it teach you? The first collection of these that we ran last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important purchase of his life. Five View Details
- Portrait Project
Tanveer Abbas
As a 10 year old, all I wanted to do in life was grow up to be an adult - that way, at dinner parties, my mother couldn't keep sending me away to play with the younger kids. As a high school student, all I... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
UHaul from Boston to San Francisco and we showed up in the summer of 2009 knowing basically nobody with an idea. Ten years later we have a real company with over a thousand people around the world and we... View Details