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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he supervised scores of volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
budget constraints squelched plans for bell towers on the river residence halls. "It's good to see the Baker Library cupola returned to its original splendor," says Moffatt, who notes that the Cotting House cupola - which does not have a... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
and principals; negotiating partnerships with private-sector organizations to help cover the district's budget shortfall; and managing and supporting the partnership's 37 Home Office employees, including Director of School Operations Carl... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial champions have the largest stakes?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
budget competing with other projects. I don’t know the feedback use metrics on this application, but I’m hopeful management supports the platform’s further reach into the information maelstrom. I suspect every alum would want access to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President Obama proposed $100 million in his FY 2012 View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
seem out of place in his previous office. And his church's $135,000 annual budget would be small change to his former colleagues. While the contrasts loom large, it is clear from the passion with which Brooks discusses his work that his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with cities from Austin to Pittsburgh hiring... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
confidence I had gained by growing up in Detroit and going to Howard University to say, “I would raise that ad budget by $5 million.” Professor Starr said, “You would?” After I’d explained my reasoning, he said, “Ms. Hilliard, you did an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Beach in 1986—where a few dozen people watched an 8-foot high wooden man burn—Burning Man, now a nonprofit with a $36 million budget (and over 400 pieces of large-scale art to boot), saw some 70,000 Burners come together this year, united... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Alvarez through a six-city tour, with the ultimate goal of finding fame and fortune in Los Angeles. Along the way, as Angel earns money dancing in competitions (and working a side job), users make decisions about budgeting for short- and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
know that HBS is using my gifts wisely? HBS employs a disciplined budget process—making trade-offs when necessary and focusing new investment in areas of strategic importance to extend the mission of the School. In the spirit of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
wrote. The fiscal 2009 budget anticipates revenue growth of just over 6 percent, sufficient to balance the budget. In an introductory Q&A, Dean Jay Light addressed the impact of the global economic crisis on HBS. He noted that the... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
Royal Commission of AlUla, in 2017. In the three-and-half years since then, AlMadani has built the government-funded organization into a hybrid planning authority and tourism board, employing 500 people—more than 40 percent women—with a $2 billion View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
changing nature of the work force, or new and provocative insights into the history of American business? These are among the many topics currently being explored by HBS faculty and research assistants. Each year, more than 40 percent of the faculty's time and 30... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Since founding Year Up in 2000, Gerald Chertavian has steadily grown the endeavor from its initial class of 22 students. The nonprofit now operates in 12 cities across the United States, employs 400, and has an annual budget of $70... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, weaves in stories of successful immigrant economists, entrepreneurs, and government advisers while debunking myths that surround immigration. For example, according to the Congressional View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based organization's annual budget was $17,000;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson