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- 13 Aug 2019
- News
How hobbies can improve your happiness and productivity at work
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
Jennifer Lee Koss by Maureen Harmon For weeks in 2012, Jennifer Lee Koss (MBA 2008) and Kena Paranjape held early- morning meetings at La Bohème coffee shop in Toronto. The discussion centered on a possible business venture. The meeting spot made sense; it was near... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Renaissance Man
Turning the page: A collection decades in the making tells the story of a lifelong passion. Image Copyright Sotheby’s (Photo Credit: Nathan Keay, Tiny Mechanism) Thomas Brooker (MBA 1968) acquired his first rare book in 1959, during a junior year abroad in Paris. At a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Inspiring conversations around the world
creative side in her early 20s, when she dabbled in art as a hobby while working as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. During this period, a close friend died unexpectedly. The experience prompted Bussel to seize the moment and pursue... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
not treat it as a hobby or afterthought. Make it part of your professional lives.” Commencement on June 7 marked a joyous occasion for 900 MBAs from 68 nations. Prior to Chenault’s address, student speaker Paul Hunyor reflected on his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
up—it was electrifying. After that, I helped him chart stock prices on the only empty wall in our house. I’m pretty sure my parents were disappointed that I took a job in investing, because stock trading is a universal hobby in many Asian... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
Kevin Corsello (far right) with partners Jeff Mauro (left) and Bo Jackson (center) (photo courtesy of Pork & Mindy’s) Kevin Corsello (OPM 45, 2014) was just looking for a hobby when he started Pork & Mindy’s—a competition barbecue team—in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
International, 1959-64 Why HBS? Eager to go into business rather than law, Zehnder followed the advice of a Canadian friend, who thought a 23-year-old with a Ph.D. had a good chance of being admitted, even without any business experience. HBS Offspring Dominik, MBA '94... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
doing some very mundane things like digging up postholes and then trying to figure out how the posts were placed and what kind of roof they supported.” While she now holds a Ph.D. in the field, Rothberg’s passion for archaeology began as a View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
as “playful” and “creative”—not in the Dominican Republic, but in New York City. After graduating from Brown in 2001, the amateur musical historian made a hobby of recording New York’s subway musicians. It was through that project that de... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth." Helping to lead a revolution of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
It all started with a Japanese language class. Steven Williams (MBA ’84) was a senior marketing director at San Francisco’s Genentech when he took Saturday classes at Soko Gakuen Japanese language school four years ago “just to keep the neurons firing.” “It was a View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
from work are all about my family,” said Cohen — she and her husband, Collin Cohen (MBA '90), are parents to Meredith (3) and Riley (1 ½). “But there's a hobby I picked up at HBS that I still make time for: ice hockey.” Reunion Roundup... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Photo courtesy of Cammie Dunaway Every day of 2020, Cammie Dunaway (MBA 1990) has practiced her French using the Duolingo app. “It is something positive I can do for myself,” Dunaway says of the hobby she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
father’s that evolved into a hobby that turned into a business,” she says. “We not only wanted to be excellent stewards, we wanted to enhance its value.” As managing partner of Knudsen Vineyards, Knudsen Cowles now provides strategic... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
important. And the fact that we have a free service means people can use it on their hobby sides or maybe they have a small business that they’re running and a lot of those folks that come in want to work for us. They’re like this is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
traveling volunteer program. He took on the new role after returning from a February trip to New Zealand, where he worked with a family for three weeks to build their home. And Murch has found yet another way to help. To keep his programming skills current, he has made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
— talking about flying and airplanes. It’s wonderful. I get to do my hobby all day long.” Hamilton, who now shares his love of flying with his two children, is clearly elated to have a second chance at his dream. Barely a year into his... View Details