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Edward J. Noble
Noble founded the entity that eventually became Life Savers Incorporated and grew it from a failing mint producer into a global business, with sales of $20 million in the mid-1950s. Noble also founded the American Broadcasting Company...
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Food & Tobacco
Joseph M. Segel
A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value and convenience....
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Care
had this cautionary advice for newly minted MBAs: "Don't let the business school Kool-Aid go to your head. There's this concept that when you graduate, especially from the top schools, you're ready to conquer the world. There's an elitism...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
In March, Dean Srikant Datar and HBS staff gathered with winners of the 25th annual New Venture Competition at HBS has long grounded its students in both the theoretical insight and practical experience needed to conceive and launch enterprises that solve challenges...
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Editor's Note
Bulletin, we feature Class Notes. As this year's newly minted crop of alumni readers fans out around the globe, we'd like to propose a collective tip of the hat from the entire HBS community to the nearly nine hundred dedicated Class...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
MBA Oath Maintains Momentum
serve “the greater good” with the “utmost integrity” was taken by hundreds of graduating MBA students in a ceremony on Class Day. As of late July, more than 450 newly minted HBS MBAs and nearly 1,000 graduates of other b-schools had taken...
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- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
mistake of newly minted MBAs: “They accept too many things. And then they can’t finish them on time and they disappoint the people who asked them to work on those things.” Read more.
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
face the world with a Harvard MBA and ‘go for it,’ there’s something wrong”). NEWLY MINTED HBS GRADUATES check out their sheepskins and whoop it up. The day before, GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA '82) primed them for the road ahead with a call...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) Photos by Stuart Cahill Overcast skies, but no stormy washout: That bad news/good news scenario for last June’s Class Day ceremonies seemed to reflect the uncertain economy awaiting the School’s nearly 900 freshly View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
Leadership Fellows Program, funded by the School, that each year will subsidize the salaries of ten or more newly minted MBAs who are interested in working at public and nonprofit organizations. The goal is to boost the compensation they...
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- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49196 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 815-113 MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (B) This short (B) case gives an update on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
Class Day/Commencement 2013 Photos by Russ Campbell "With meaning, any job can become a calling," former Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) told 901 MBA, 7 DBA, and 8 joint PhD graduates during Class Day ceremonies on May 30. Moore's call for the newly...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
To cap his already impressive business career, David Price is unabashed about his final goal. "I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company," he declares, exuding the energy and optimism reminiscent of a newly minted MBA. Price makes...
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- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
If you had asked Calvin Young (MBA 2015) what he’d be doing after his graduation from HBS, he wouldn’t have answered “politics.” But earlier this month, the mechanical engineer and newly minted MBA announced his candidacy for mayor of...
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Mira Mehta
who were already walking the path I hoped to follow, and as a newly minted alumna, I have been warmly welcomed into a group of true change makers who are driving the country forward. My ability to make a positive impact through my social...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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South Asian Women at Work
Conference on India and Its Neighbors, a student-organized gathering held on the HBS campus in February and sponsored by the HBS South Asian Business Association. Shahla Aly, now a general manager at Microsoft, came to North America in 1977 with three things in hand,...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
politics, rarely appear in consumer marketing campaigns. To be sure, marketers of breath mints and antidandruff shampoos play on social anxieties; Volvo raises automotive safety concerns. But the fear level never approaches that raised by...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
Not many newly minted MBAs would hesitate if they were asked to play a major role in shaping the future of a multimillion dollar company, but 25 years ago, William Fung Kwok Lun wasn't sure it was the right choice for him. "When I got out...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to...
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- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
been a newly minted partner at Deloitte when the opportunity to join Breast Cancer Foundation NZ arose. It would have been easy to turn down; she was busy with her career. But that early exposure to volunteerism had set Smyth on the same...
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