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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
Florida. During a board meeting break, George Weathersby, YPO’s recently appointed CEO, ponders this puzzle: Of the 59 YPO networks (including groups devoted to golf, family business, real estate, wine, and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
work that had real impact on people’s lives. Entrepreneurship education is a recurring theme. Beck serves on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS, where Michel this year is an...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
And monarchs tend to surround themselves with courtiers — that’ s the cronyism aspect. Some boards consist largely of people chosen by the CEO, and they’ re there to help each...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state View Details
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Erin Peterson
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
Courtesy Steve Payne Courtesy Steve Payne The Arctic ice pack is melting. For more than a decade, Steve Payne (MBA 1985), chair of the board of the Arctic Ice Project, has patiently explained the problem to anyone willing to listen: The...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
This is a major, long-term, company-wide initiative.” HBS professor Lynda M. Applegate examines cyber security issues as part of her MBA course Building Businesses in Turbulent Times. She sits on the advisory council for Nasdaq (for whom,...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
Cheng (current chairman of Montage) and Leslie A. Kenny (now CEO of Hong Kong–based DotMedia Studio) approached the School’s Initiative on Social Enterprise in order to learn more about the details of launching a nonprofit. Their ideas...
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- 26 Apr 2022
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Leading on Climate Change
of business and government in confronting climate change. The January event was part of the club’s Harvard ThinkTank panel discussion series on leading transformation, which features high-profile leaders...
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Margie Kelley
- 07 May 2019
- News
Managers, Are You Prepared to Handle Religion in the Workplace?
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
brought them so much peace and comfort during a difficult time. The power of that has been understated in medicine, and perhaps in society more broadly. Going forward, I hope we can emphasize that human...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
time. They spun Aliro out of Harvard’s Quantum Information Science Lab, then incubated it at the Harvard i-lab. Ricotta came on board in 2019. A seasoned tech CEO, he had already launched a number of startups into emerging networking...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
government and other institutions” to expand the service. Like any good businessman, Raju saw in emergency care an untapped market. The need was clear enough: Every day some 200,000 Indians face a medical...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
Katherine Welch (MBA 1988) found her passion in working to improve public education in California. In this video she reviews how she arrived at this personal and civic mission, serving as a board member of...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
and 20 international public partners, says program manager Paige Fitzgerald (MBA/MPP 2014): In Los Angeles, it’s working with city government to push out Amber Alerts; in Rio, garbage truck drivers are using...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Once a Fulbright…
dream come true for a young girl who learned early to listen to my instincts — to pursue the seemingly impossible.” Active on several boards and a frequent speaker on corporate governance, Owades, who also...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
endeavors to nurture businesses in emerging economies and promote sustainable sources of energy, show his continuing determination to bridge the gap between policies and people. In the course of one two-week...
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