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- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
under management. Given Cronin's background, it's not surprising that the WP portfolio favors traditional industrial and service companies that are strong on business fundamentals. Examples include Herald... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
area of for-profit hospital management and the company that established the HCA Foundation. HBS has many ties to the Frist family: Thomas F. Frist III (MBA ’97), William R. Frist (MBA ’01), Julie Damgard Frist (MBA ’97), and Patricia C.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
last June, he has been a prime example of the positive results of that litmus test. Daniel first heard of McKinsey & Company at a career panel he attended during his senior year at Wesleyan University, where he majored in mathematics. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability
What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real intentionality around the policies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce price hikes across their View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
what Motley calls “the grand plan.” After HBS, he spent two decades working for the chemical, glass, and coatings company PPG Industries, living in eight cities along the way. He finished his corporate career at the Pittsburgh-based... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 15 Apr 2016
- News
First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
when she was honored as an HBS Alumni Achievement Award recipient. In a recent wide-ranging interview with Black Enterprise, Lambert reflects on the impact of HBS on her career, her upbringing in the segregated South, and how she has met... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Hugo Moreno, attended one of the School's executive social enterprise programs, and the more Grossman learned of the company and its plans the more he was impressed. "Salud Digna was expanding rapidly in Mexico, and what was interesting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
compelling,” says Senior Lecturer John Macomber, coauthor with Joseph Allen of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. “In other words, more and more of these companies will enter the mainstream.” The need... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
If business leaders want to solve societal problems, Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) suggests, “Find an issue that inspires you. Your impact will compound from there.” For Shumway, that issue is homelessness. Shumway is founder and chairman of... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
broader impact on the world. “It was super flattering to be selected,” says Nussey, whose companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value over his career. He cofounded a software... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
not adequately addressing,” he notes. Analytics-Focused Consulting A dual political science/business major at Brigham Young University, Shumway says he has always been drawn to the intersection of business, economics, and public policy. After college, he worked at Bain... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) Over time and experience, Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) has developed an approach to philanthropy that bridges both his professional and personal lives, delivering impact to both. He... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
programs have a long-lasting impact on the progress of their workers, their companies, and their countries, and have done so in particular in Brazil," said Esteves, who visited the HBS campus in March to deliver the keynote speech at a... View Details