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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
anything. My mother only had a tenth-grade education, but she was a voracious reader who taught herself the jewelry and antiques business," he says. Inspired by his mother — "an eccentric entrepreneur" — and her perseverance, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Ocean Hall opens at National Museum of Natural History As a Mormon missionary in Wisconsin, Roger Sant enjoyed working with Native Americans. Innately curious, he liked spending time with the people, getting to know them, and helping them... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a... View Details
- 13 May 2013
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Tied Together by the Times
Under the leadership of Roger Yanow, the Class of 1954 has set multiple dollar and participation records. Yanow, who serves as fundraising chair for the class, says there is no magic formula for 1954's success. “I depend on my fundraising... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Marquis Jet Takes Off
uniquely positioned to broaden the customer base for private-jet travel to their former clients: young, highly paid athletes and performers. By contrast, their research showed that the typical private-jet customer was a highly successful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
highly successful CEOs basked in near celebrity status conferred by the media, George dodged the limelight and steadfastly insisted that he didn’t create anything. He just made it possible for others to do so. George also believed in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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The MBA at a Crossroads
It’s not often that a speech by an academic generates optimism in a room full of educational leaders facing significant challenges. But that’s what happened back in February when HBS professor Srikant Datar addressed business school deans... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
actions to boost America's competitive standing-one decision at a time. That call to action lies at the heart of the School's new US Competitiveness Project, chaired by Porter and Rivkin and involving a team of HBS faculty and thought... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
we need.” With almost three years of operational experience, the ten-person company has adapted and survived. A pending project for 42 multifamily affordable-housing units would cause the firm to triple in size by year’s end. While... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
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No Pulp Fiction Allowed
theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other stakeholders. It's a mess Khurana... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an economist... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect
students would regard simply as home away from home. By all accounts, they succeeded. Angela Crispi (MBA ’90), associate dean for administration, recalls life on campus pre-Spangler. “There was so much energy in the classroom, but once... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
Donaldson Illustration by Joe Ciardiello When William Donaldson (MBA ’58) was sworn in as the 27th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2003, Wall Street and the commission itself were in turmoil. A wave of... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
with little or no measurable result, SIBs offer a new way to address intractable societal problems. Here’s how the bonds work. Private investors purchase bonds that finance preventive programs run by nonprofit groups. If the programs,... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
Required Curriculum reflects an institutional philosophy that all first-year students need a common knowledge base, the Elective Curriculum presents students with "an incredible marketplace of ideas from the best faculty in the world," said Moon. View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The... View Details