When I came to Harvard Business School (HBS) to participate in the Executive Education General Management Program, I wasn’t looking for a career change, I was looking for a way to create real, lasting ...

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty ...

The Race for National Security Launches into Orbit ...

A Layperson’s Guide to the Middle Ages by Brian Buxton covers the Middle Ages in a new way: quickly, in simple language, and with stories, profiles, interpretations, maps, paintings, and images that ...

The things we choose to save, and display, say something about us. Along with the usual photos of loved ones (husband, daughter, horse), my desk in Teele Hall includes a ceramic bluebird, a train ...

I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And so higher education to me really ...

Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” ...

In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, ...

Building online auction house Saffronart has been a 25-year labor of love for Dinesh Vazirani and his wife, Minal. (Photo by Rema Chaudhary) People told Dinesh Vazirani (MBA 1994) he was crazy. In ...

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic ...

Ilana Springer Borkenstein and Eric Gruskin (both MBA 2022) cofounded M7 Health to take the pain out of nursing schedules Re: Ilana Springer (MBA 2022); Eric Gruskin (MBA 2022); By: Amy Crawford; ...