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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
help them expand or make critical improvements. Launched in 2009, Edify has assisted 1,100 private schools by loaning each a minimum $5,000. The schools, which are run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
number of influential local and regional business and civic leaders participated in the weekend. "While some people are already involved in cross-border business, we wanted to use the HBS network to help expand business opportunities and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
extraordinary for the access it provided alumni to senior HBS faculty as well as to European business and government leaders. It’s one of the School’s great strengths that it can assemble so many of the world’s top business minds. Evenings were no less special. The... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area nonprofits and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Deal Me In
Black Photo Courtesy Fitdeck Have you heard about the latest must-have exercise equipment? Your local gym doesn’t have it, and that’s just fine with its inventor, Phil Black (MBA ’02), who’d rather see it in your shirt pocket. Black, a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key initiative is a multiyear... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
local farmers. Mission: Chaku’s sourcing model helps Ghanian farmers mitigate crop loss, which can run as high as 40 percent because of processing and exporting challenges. Okrah lived close to those farmers in Kumasi, an agrarian region... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
also hosted individualized panels, led by faculty and classmates, on topics such as entrepreneurship, balancing work and family, and making lifestyle and career changes. Dinner cruises, gala events, and tours of local sites, all taking... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
might wish to follow her lead? “Things generally take a lot longer to implement, and you need to build certain cultural factors into your business plan and understand how best to manage those. Patience and persistence are must-haves. Find good View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
serves as the epicenter of all contacts and communications between the club and local alumni. Today, with 275 members — its highest membership rate ever — the HBS Club of Puget Sound is flourishing. One of its most popular events, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
are able to interact and exchange ideas on all aspects of their industry." The club has sponsored a wide array of events, including local programs around the country featuring prominent health-care leaders and an annual alumni health-care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
Harris service, the School provided clubs with contact data for local alumni. But if they wanted a Web site, they were on their own, says Beckvold. Not anymore. “We had a Web site before the Harris service, and it was extremely difficult... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston... View Details
Keywords: New Venture Competition
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
many local alumni are retired. Still, the club’s co-president, Paul Engle (MBA 1974), says five alumni attended the workshop. Andrews adds that this group included mid-career professionals looking at what might come next. “Some were... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Bloom: In Mali with local dignitaries at rice harvest in newly irrigated fields. Photo courtesy Jonathan Bloom It seems poetic justice when someone named Bloom is involved in an exciting experiment that’s blossomed and bearing fruit.... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
community. Starting in local government, one thing led to another and I ran for the state legislature in 2008 and now serve as a state senator in Massachusetts. “I chair the public health committee for the state legislature, so a lot of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
remake their communities for the digital age. Below, a look at how HBS alumni are helping to rewire the way the world thinks about its cities. Town Halls for All Getting your voice heard by local government is unnecessarily difficult,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
the dedication of the local supporters. “I know this fan base,” Middleton told the Press. “I said to a lot of the guys here, ‘When we start to prove to these fans that we’re real, they will come out.’ I expected this, and they were still... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
porters do is incredibly hard. The average load is 60 pounds per person. They often sleep outside or on benches in communal rooms," says Petzel. "As the tragic events on Everest have demonstrated, it is paramount for us to continue to support the View Details