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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
money,” says Weiss, whose career included serving as head of investment banking for Lazard, the global financial advisory and asset management firm, and as publisher and editor of the Paris Review. “It was clear that this was turning into... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
million revenue in the third quarter of 2023. McKnight and his team are currently working with 14 countries to develop pathogen-monitoring programs—what Concentric calls a “bioradar” system. The most public aspect of this system is currently on display at nine 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 Sep 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
investment from Ambit Health Ventures, a medical venture capital fund, and is supported by HBS Angels of Boston. Following on earlier donations to Ukraine, in March Teodorescu and a contingent of volunteers and doctors delivered 50... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
also theirs. To Rawi Abdelal, an HBS professor of international management who serves as faculty co-chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Dlodlo’s community-focused approach to redevelopment represents a necessary... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
of businesses’ pursuit of profits and their impact on their communities. “The multimedia components of these cases make the students more invested in the issues because they really get a sense of who the people are and what they are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of Finance in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a cofounding partner and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
these Network efforts have indeed made a difference. “Last year, alumni participated in 1,400 club events worldwide, donated $14 million worth of time through pro bono initiatives, invested $11 million across more than 450 companies, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
crisis. Based on unprecedented access to Indonesian archives and a wealth of international sources, Suharto’s Cold War narrates the first decades of the Suharto regime at the national, regional, and global levels. Suharto mobilized View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
International Student Committee, she helped increase representation of women and U.S. executives at the committee's annual symposium on management in Switzerland. Graduating magna cum laude in economics with a summa cum laude thesis... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
And so I think that's how we've been able to move the line with a lot of our operators. Morrell: Was this a big lesson internally for McDonald's? Cunningham: Yeah, I think it was. And it's allowed us to do other things since then that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009, though, while at an event at NASA... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Pepper invested $50 million in the company, part of a $75 million round announced in 2022, and the company has racked up industry awards in competition against beers with and without alcohol—the larger effect of which has been to carve... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated with the firm’s View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
however, his $600-million, 1.8-million-square-foot International Place - one of the top ten office buildings in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal - is a Boston landmark and a monument to Chiofaro's daring and tenacity.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice