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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
meeting at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, to an education conference in Dubai, and to the University of Ghana, where he delivered a lecture on partnerships for success in Africa. The hectic pace and diverse agendas were not unusual for... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
initiated a meeting with representatives from the last five graduating classes. Global Alumni Conferences Ellen Guidera (MBA '86) and her fellow committee members are committed to a process of continual improvement, and with each... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
first volume, Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia. Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore, edited by Teo and published in 2013. Volume II presents papers read at the inaugural Univer-Cities Conference 2013 held under... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
common practice across school systems—is informed by a realistic view of the difficulty of that task. "If you think PELP will give you all the answers," she observes, "that's not what it's about." Sitting in a conference room across the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
company is planning to add 50 employees over the next year and currently is serving more than 500 clients in 50 industries throughout Brazil, as well as clients in Turkey, Argentina, and Portugal. “Hanging a three-foot check for $50,000 in a View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
know, the 2002 Global Alumni Conference was scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last March. After careful consideration by the School and conference organizers in Argentina, the Global Alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Austin. As a UT undergraduate, he was Southwest Conference 200-yard breaststroke champion and placed third at the World University Games in 1991. Once out of the water, it was safe for Staats to play full-time with electricity. In 1999,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
event will include a presentation by an HBS faculty member. Watch for details. Atlanta* November 10, 2004 New York* November 30, 2004 Houston January (tbd), 2005 San Francisco* February 1, 2005 Los Angeles February 2, 2005 Chicago* March 16, 2005 Seattle* March 29,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
The first conference for HBS African-American alumni to be held outside Boston drew well over a hundred participants to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco over Columbus Day weekend. A committee led by Steven R. Wilkinson (MBA '82)... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Small Club, Big Impact
Photo: Justin A. Knight Africa Business Conference cochairs George Osawaye and Ngassam Ngnoumen (both MBA '02) and a team of student organizers began planning for the March event last August. They couldn't be more pleased with the... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
representatives from 12 European-based alumni clubs, provides club leaders the opportunity to share experiences, gain new perspectives, and learn about successful club activities and programs. This year’s conference focused on best... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
conference room at DART's Cambridge office. After several years in consulting and a few years launching start-ups, Williams spent eight years at Genzyme, managing its rare disease portfolio, leaving in 2006 to take on a number of smaller... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
The Ron Brown Awards grew out of President Clinton's wish to establish an award that would honor corporate citizenship, explains Richard E. Cavanagh (MBA '70), president of The Conference Board, a business research and membership... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success
Simulcast on the Web, the conference began with an evening keynote address by Guy Kawasaki, founder of Garage.com, who spoke about the challenges of identifying and building sustainable Internet and high-tech businesses. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
meantime, planning for the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Berlin continues apace, and we are thrilled to see that as of late April, close to one thousand people had registered to attend. This is clearly a record -- and a testament to the... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
other. Its findings will lead to recommendations for HBS programs and initiatives that would meet the needs of this ever-growing overseas constituency. In addition, a subcommittee is working with the School to develop a sustainable five-year plan for the annual Global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
subtle language errors made by nonnative speakers of English in investor conference calls can be linked to literal dollars and cents in the marketplace. When top leaders fumbled with the language as they led impromptu Q&A sessions in... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at Grant Thornton, started organizing monthly... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken