Bryan Marquard

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Bryan Marquard

A year into his tenure as dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, David C. Schmittlein was realistic about what made the graduate business program unique, and optimistic about how it could expand its appeal. “There’s a joke, that’s also true, that if you want to meet a lot of people go to a smaller school because you really will meet people there,” he said in an October 2008 interview with the Globe.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Bryan Marquard

En route to her pioneering role as a woman at the top of a corporate ladder in Boston, Carol Goldberg found that rising through Stop & Shop’s ranks as the boss’s daughter was often as much of a hindrance as the expectation that she would compliantly follow traditional gender roles. “Everybody hoped that when I got pregnant I would go home,” she recalled in a 1993 interview with the Globe. “It was just constant. It was the fiber of the culture.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Bryan Marquard

When the state government placed Chelsea into receivership in September 1991, the municipality was such a mess it needed help to even cover payroll. To lead Chelsea out of a wilderness of crime, corruption, and hopelessness, Governor William Weld appointed James F. Carlin — a successful entrepreneur who previously had served as state transportation secretary and commerce commissioner.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Bryan Marquard

In a Boston Globe career unlikely to be repeated, Richard C. Ockerbloom walked in the front door on his first day as a Northeastern University student co-op, rose to become president, and walked out on his last day later as vice chairman of the newspaper. “I’ve been told here at Northeastern that I probably had the longest co-op job in the history of the university because I retired from the Globe 45 years later,” he once said during an alumni interview.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Bryan Marquard

Perry King Neubauer in 2020. An architect, writer, and musician, he formerly was president of the innovative Cambridge firm The Architects Collaborative.Courtesy of the Neubauer familyPortfolio in hand, Perry King Neubauer made the rounds of Arlington, Va., architectural offices in 1955, hoping one would let a 15-year-old take his first step in the field he wished to pursue. Only Bailey and Patton, the last office on his list, said yes.