"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work Take 2 - Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons HBS Community Rolls Up Its Sleeves Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success Hawes Hall Makes Tip-Top Progress Donella Rapier to Head External Relations   Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success With its usual flair and wit, this year’s HBS Show pitted the January and September cohorts against each other — think Jets, think Sharks — in a late March production of Up Side Story. The main characters, Tony and Maria, came from different sides of the calendar, but they somehow managed to fall in love while entertaining the sold-out audience with humor, song, and dance. Each year since 1974, a group of hardworking students has pooled its writing, acting, and production skills to stage a Broadway-style performance that takes advantage of inside jokes and the MBA knack for showbiz. This year’s show was a collaboration of more than 150 “incredibly talented directors, producers, actors, singers, dancers, band members, and crew who made the magic happen in the blink of an eye,” according to John Lippman (MBA ’01), one of the writers of the show. This year’s coproducers, Frank Andrasco and Jeff Gatto (both MBA ’01), shared duties that included everything from heavy lifting (they lugged about 1,500 pounds of sound equipment) to working with the administration to finding sponsors. The pair handled all the logistical and business details of the show, while director Margaret Lee (MBA ’01) took care of the creative aspects, including running auditions and rehearsals. Premier sponsors Novartis and The Boston Consulting Group helped offset the $55,000 cost of the show, as did the sales of some 2,400 tickets to students, partners, faculty, staff, friends, and alumni. “We make fun of all the stuff that makes HBS HBS,” Gatto told the Harbus. The show, he added, offers “a chance to sit back and appreciate how quickly the time flies by, and how much we’ll miss [HBS] after we leave.”   RETURN TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE   Hawes Hall Makes Tip-Top Progress On a warm day in late April, the HBS community gathered to celebrate progress made in the construction of Hawes Hall, a three-story, 47,000-square-foot classroom building designed by the firm of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott. The “topping out” ceremony, a Viking tradition that pays tribute to the trees sacrificed in building a new structure, marked the halfway point in the construction of the new addition to the HBS campus, located at the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall and facing Baker Library. The building, which honors the contributions of Rodney A. Hawes, Jr. (MBA ’69) and his family, is scheduled for completion in January 2002.     Photographs by Stuart Cahill. RETURN TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE   Donella Rapier to Head External Relations Donella Rapier (MBA ’92) has recently been appointed associate dean for External Relations at HBS, following the resignation of James C. Schroeder, who accepted a position as chief development officer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Rapier has served as the School’s CFO since 1996 and will continue in that role along with her new leadership position at External Relations. “This is an exciting time to be involved in External Relations at HBS,” Rapier notes. “The School is poised to move forward on a number of fronts to strengthen alumni connectedness to each other and to the School. Our growing technology capabilities will enable us to broaden our offerings to alumni in ways that have never been possible before. In addition, as we move ahead with initiatives to expand our impact worldwide, our alumni will play an even greater role in helping us to meet our goals.” As an alumna, administrator, and former faculty member at HBS, Rapier approaches her new role from a unique perspective. A native of Los Angeles, she began her career there, working as a CPA for Price Waterhouse. The firm awarded her a full scholarship to HBS, and after graduation she rejoined the company as an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty appointment, teaching accounting at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and then later at HBS, where she taught the first-year MBA accounting course, Financial Reporting and Control. Since making the transition to CFO, Rapier has overseen and managed all aspects of the School’s finances, including long-range financial planning, budgeting, capital planning, financing alternatives, and financial reporting. She is involved in setting policy issues as they relate to the financial concerns of the School and is actively engaged in the design and installation of new financial systems, policies, and procedures at the University. No stranger to alumni affairs, Rapier has participated in meetings of the Alumni Board, the Visiting Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Associates. “I’ve enjoyed working with the talented External Relations staff, and it has been a real privilege to have met so many outstanding graduates,” she says. “It feels great to be in a position where I can have a real impact on the relationship between the School and its alumni.”   RETURN TO THE TOP OF THE PAGE