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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
capital. Such conditions stress a financial system, leaving it vulnerable to a shock. The decade before the Panic of 1907 was a stressful whopper of growth. Second, it takes quite a shock to trigger a crisis. The shock must be big, costly, unambiguous, surprising, and...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
simple-ingredient, raw-food diet. Spies couldn’t find such a thing in the pet aisle, so she started making it herself and quickly maxed out the freezer of her San Francisco kitchen with dog food. Within a...
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- 16 Nov 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Boston
Starting last fall and continuing through this coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On November 8, more than 170 alumni and guests gathered in Klarman Hall to hear the dean discuss how the School is addressing today’s...
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- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
providing new scholarship support to more students from middle-income backgrounds. Following the Dean's visit to East Asia, he is looking forward to a Boston event in the fall held in conjunction with the HBS Club of Boston. The Dean began this series of alumni...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
services company where he served as CEO from 2007 to 2010. A lifelong baseball fan, he owns three minor-league baseball teams and often attends San Francisco Giants games with his close friend and Bay Area...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
fast-paced English is delivered with a German accent. He came to HBS with a grant from the German government after earning a doctorate in political economy from the University of Cologne. Upon receiving an MBA as a Baker Scholar, he accepted a position with the Boston...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
one-third of the HBS student body -- traveled to San Francisco and Silicon Valley as participants in the fifth annual WesTrek, an event organized by members of the High Tech and New Media Club in...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Black. “Banks don’t want to touch this; they consider it a toxic asset,” Dlodlo says of the rubble-strewn lot. The challenges confronting Dlodlo are not unique to Baltimore. Cities ranging from San Francisco...
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- 20 Oct 2008
- News
The Great Depression - how close are we?
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
One of the advantages of getting up before 4 a.m., F. Warren Hellman (MBA ’59) says with a smile, is that you aren’t expected to go to cocktail parties. Every day at that hour, Hellman can be found running six miles through his San View Details
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Susan Young
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
aspect you have missed or overlooked or misjudged. The best way around that is to have a roomful of colleagues smarter than you, to help figure out the best solution. —Lawrence Honig (MBA 1975) Back to top “Hambrecht & Quist” The San...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
At HBS, he gained an appreciation for teamwork. “I learned how to bounce off other people’s ideas, how the sum of the parts is always much bigger than what you can do alone,” adds Harf, who after graduation worked for BCG in San View Details
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
San Francisco store with its “Resistance Reads” section and weekly Saturday story time. “I am a bookstore, but really what I’m selling is a unique experience.”
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April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in math, using the phone and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
helping plan the San Francisco and Hong Kong events. The Global Alumni Conferences are important to both graduates and the School, since they provide an opportunity for interaction in a focused setting at a...
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Cathy Connett
- 13 May 2013
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Continuity of Commitment
Stacey Case is inspiring when she talks about the inherent bond between HBS alumni. Case recently hosted a get-together at her home in San Francisco for 1987 and 1988 alumni to meet Dean Nitin Nohria, where...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
That’s why Community Partners has become so popular. We’re providing $2.5 million in pro bono consulting a year. That’s having a significant impact on our region.” The city of San Francisco has been a major...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
You’re an Old Fuelie
For his first year at HBS, Jan Hyde (MBA ’66) arrived in style, driving all the way from San Francisco to Soldiers Field behind the wheel of a silver-and-white 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, a fuel-injected model...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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The Harvard Business School Campaign: California Regional Events
The HBS Campaign San Francisco Regional Event, June 9, 2014 Vivian Wu, Suzanne Scott, and Antoine Colaco (all MBA 2000) reconnected during the strolling dinner. Haig Mardikian (MBA 1971), Stacey Case (MBA...
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