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- 23 Aug 2020
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In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
Oxford University, is also making a plan for when a vaccine does become available. While a small portion of the UK population is staunchly “anti-vax” her primary concern is those who are fearful of how quickly the vaccine is being...
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- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Moving On
be over 100 years old. I always like to say that my narrative is the American narrative, again, from the great, great grandson of slaves to the president of not one but two universities. “I went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. And I...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Rushing Yards
it’s clear that Howard’s earliest influencers were his parents, who grew up the children of sharecroppers yet both graduated from college. That same work ethic and love of education would take Howard to Oxford University as a Rhodes...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
developing world, and fundraising for the Bank. "My whole life used to be about efficiency," says Costan, a Montana native who graduated from Stanford and studied theology at Oxford prior to attending HBS. "That's not really possible when...
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Young, Susan
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
in place. “My research is focused on ideas that can be put into practice,” notes Wilson, “so seeing that interest in the report was very rewarding.” Whether she is lecturing at Oxford or the Stockholm School of Economics, presenting...
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- 17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life
$9 million operation. The company, renamed Harvard Bioscience, Inc. — it has a licensing agreement with Harvard University — went public in 2000 and by 2010 had become a $108 million firm. Asked how he came to decide to work in the health-care field, Green said, “I...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
lot of hard work, it gradually turned into a department store," Barron explains. "He treated people fairly and was well-respected. I think I gained a more positive view of business than others in my generation because I saw how a small business could benefit a...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
jurisprudence ’77, Oxford University. Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Senior Staff Vice President, IMG Worldwide, Inc. Cleveland, OH. Walter K. Clair, AB ’77, MD ’81, MPH ’85. Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Assistant Clinical...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Time to Vote in University Elections
each director serving on at least one committee. This year's candidates are: David M. Balabanian, AB '60, magna cum laude, LLB '65, cum laude; B. Phil. '62, Oxford University, England. Lawyer; Chair, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen,...
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- 25 May 2010
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Commencement and the Winds of Change
family settled in England. Cohen went on to win a scholarship to Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union, before attending HBS. Quite by coincidence as I write this, over the transom comes an update from Forsan Hussein (MBA...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
mastered English and advanced to the top of his class. His outstanding academic performance earned him a scholarship to Oxford University, where he became president of the Oxford Union, the world’s most...
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- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
the Miami Culinary Institute. He sits on the board of Northeast Organic Farming Association in New Jersey, which incubates artisanal food production businesses. And he indulges the would-have-been academic in him by regularly attending the View Details
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April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni
former chairman of London-based Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading venture-capital and private-equity firms, Ronnie Cohen and his parents emigrated, with virtually no possessions, to England from Egypt in 1956. Often said to be the father of the venture-capital...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
some $3 billion. Born in Ireland in 1932, Dunphy studied law at Oxford University, but he discovered an intriguing career alternative when students visiting from Harvard Law School mentioned HBS during a moot court exercise. Dunphy...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
manipulating stock prices. “The résumé and reputation I had built for myself at Oxford and Harvard had been reduced to dust,” Spier recounts in his new book, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
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The First Scrum
who had gone to Oxford and played with the Oxford Blues. John and I were the props, two guys who stand arm-in-arm with the hooker, the lead player in the scrum, and that was Jimmy. I was struck that these...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Chairman, Social Investment Task force, Bridges Community Ventures, & The Portland Trust Cofounder & Former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Oxford University, 1967 M.A.,...
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