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- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
experience here that combines art, nature, and architecture,” says van Caldenborgh, who chairs Voorlinden’s board and spends five or six days a week at his office in the museum, about an hour’s drive from Amsterdam. The tranquil setting... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
In 2006, the entire region celebrated the opening of the Wild Center, a 54,000-square-foot, interactive museum experience. The center includes live wildlife exhibits, a movie theater, an art studio, a large system of trails, and recreation opportunities that include... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
products, but I appreciate them when they’re well done, so I’m a sounding board for him without being a back-seat driver. At the same time, I “design” businesses. Jeff has great common sense about all business matters, so he serves as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
bank account, and family support system.” Up the structure. Build your own board of directors. “You need a group of people who will offer outside support and call you to account,” Burton advises. Evaluate your approach on a monthly basis.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
and advisory firm. Froot has served as a consultant to many companies, countries, and institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the staff of the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
in 1995 after a successful Wall Street career. In a unanimous board vote last fall, he became only the third Bank president to be reappointed to a second five-year term. Excerpts from his speech, "The Challenges Facing the World Bank in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
marketing, and board oversight. A month before showtime, director Kent Bennett (HBS ’08) talked about the ins and outs of carrying on a School tradition. What’s the plot of the Show? This year, our lovebirds are Stanley Morgan (Matt... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
that later in life.” Initially, she began on the sly by saving money provided by her husband for groceries, in order to make the garage suitable for the nursery school. When he saw its success, he got on board and bankrolled the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
regular reunion attendee, class volunteer, and a past member of the HBS Visiting Committee, Tisch currently serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. His strong interest in strategic philanthropy led him to get involved with the School’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
revenue, and industry, Ferracone provides boards and individuals evaluating executive pay with the ability to analytically determine an appropriate compensation package. The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge by... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
usage and reductions in emissions. The company, founded in 2008, was making slow but steady progress retrofitting heavy fleet vehicles until the fall of 2017, recalls Fenwick-Smith, who sits on the board as executive chairman. That was... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
chairman of Metis Capital Partners in Lagos, Nigeria, who also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
work just as well. Luckily this meant I had plenty of places to hide. I found a tree a few hundred feet beyond the starting line and ducked for cover. Then I spritzed myself with water to ensure that I was appropriately sweaty and jogged out for the last lap. It... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
some eighty countries and all their officials, press, and citizens feel they have a personal stake in what you're doing," he explains. "You have to be available and forthcoming." In this spirit of full disclosure, Romney and the SLOC's new View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
years at HBS and a few years running a charter school fund he had founded in Newark, Leschly wanted to get back to managing—holding staff meetings, building a team, and doing applied work. So he returned to Match Education, an education reform group for which he had... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
organizer and HBSAB board member Radha Bennett (MBA 2014), adding that only about 2 percent of VC funding goes to women founders. That doesn’t mean they won’t find VCs to back them, just that they might have to pitch their ideas to many... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
just not there in representative numbers when it comes to business leadership and decision-making. They are unintentionally, but systematically, boxed out. Women hold only 15.2 percent of board seats in the entire Fortune 500 workforce.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
technology, and this weird kind of intuition about it,” he says. That intuition has served him well: Over the past three decades, Levy has founded and led several tech companies and played a role as an investor and board member at dozens... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
from Mary Thompson's family was one more example of the interconnectedness of all my houses," he writes. Now a senior advisor at DLJ and an active member of a number of boards, including Harvard University's Board of Overseers, Jenrette... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg