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- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
face of it, it’s hard to understand the logic of earned income being taxed at about two and a half times the rate of a capital gain. My first thought was of the advice of certain commentators: if I didn’t think I was paying enough tax, I... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
financial aid for MBA students, with a preference for US Marine Corps veterans. “My two biggest influences have been the Marines and Harvard,” says Burt, who after attending Princeton on an NROTC scholarship served three years in the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
just absolutely wonderful,” says Janet Stark (MBA 1982), Board Chair for the HBSWANY, and organizer of the event. “After the play, we all just circled around Gloria and had this great conversation. She stayed with us for a while, and even... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
previous year. Same-store sales also had their first annual decline in 30 years. For the US market, the reported 1.7 percent drop in same-store sales marked the fifth consecutive quarter of declines. In an earnings call with investors,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
hundreds of billions annually into western coffers.” Recently, due to its opacity and ease of incorporation (of dummy as well as legitimate companies), Britain’s independent Tax Justice Network placed the state of Delaware at the top of its Financial Secrecy Index,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
board level ranks? Willie: I think what has to be different today is acknowledgement. You have incidents that get captured on camera. Everybody makes announcements. Everybody says they're going to do better and eventually nothing happens, but what may be different this... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- News
Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. In this video, he talks about new partnerships his organization is forming to bring the tools and advantages of online learning to wider audiences. “I’m the founder and executive... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
When Zachary Kirkhorn (MBA 2013) became CFO of Tesla in early 2019, few envied him. The electric carmaker had just reduced headcount by 7 percent. Tesla needed to cut costs and its vehicle prices to avoid bankruptcy, CEO Elon Musk told... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) is on a mission to help keep millions of people around the world from dying needlessly. “Right now, 2.4 million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases,” says Schrader, cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded
Anthony Harris (MBA 1979) is engineering a more secure world as president and CEO of Campbell Security Equipment Company (CSECO), the world’s leader in portable contraband-detection equipment. Devices made by the Alameda, California-based... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and deliver merchandise to human... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
Sullivan: Fulfilling an age-old human curiosity. Photo courtesy Ancestry.com For Tim Sullivan (MBA 1991), the case method was the perfect way to learn. Sullivan, who is president and CEO of Ancestry.com—the world’s largest online... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
upcoming book Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary. In this program, the two discuss how finding the courage to authentically lead offers us a path forward in life, regardless of our circumstances. View the recording from... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
times are good, the numbers increase, a diversity officer may be appointed, and HR institutes sensitivity training. Denmark West (MBA 1998), an advisor, investor, and founding partner of Connectivity Ventures, points to the early 2000s as... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
are in a good position to sound the alert about "policies or practices that may have the unintended consequence of marginalizing international students," Walker says. One example is the common tendency of some professors to call on the first student who raises his or... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
If climate change feels like an impossibly knotty threat to unravel, consider the outlook of Alisa Gravitz (MBA 1980), who sees being carbon negative worldwide by 2050 as entirely possible. As president and CEO of the Washington,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
“People often seem surprised when I tell them that unemployment among veterans is lower than the general population,” states Peter Gudmundsson (MBA 1990), president and CEO of RecruitMilitary, a leading military-to-civilian recruiting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
to the next level. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at HBS, and Norton (DBA '73), president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, Inc., found that the diverse companies that used the balanced scorecard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Warren Luke, MBA 1970
The legacy of the Luke family at HBS begins with K. J. Luke, who earned an MBA in 1938 before returning to Hawaii, where he worked in real estate and founded Hawaii National Bank in 1960. Today, K. J.’s son Warren Luke continues the tradition, serving as chairman and... View Details