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- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two well-regarded K–12 View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
"The best practice does not, and increasingly will not, necessarily reside in Boston or even in the United States." Beyond the classroom, international students are a vital presence in the daily activities of the student body. Wheelwright... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron, who plans to become involved... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
impact that philanthropists and nonprofits can have,” says Tierney, who has created a unique organization that privately collaborates with a wide range of billionaires, advises the likes of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
million residents at its height, and 9th-century Baghdad vie for the title of the world’s largest city prior to 19th-century London. Today, one useful way to think about cities is to divide them into three fluid (and sometime overlapping)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
Cardinals. “Bill DeWitt Jr. and his partners have far exceeded the standard for private investment in a professional sports facility and have earned hearty praise for their spirit of partnership with and commitment to their host... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
step toward successful integration. Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) and Carl Pope St. Martin’s Press Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the former head of the Sierra Club... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the artists’ careers and influence... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
residence in more than 30 states, and I couldn't marry the person of my choice in all but a handful of states. I knew that at the current pace of change, it could be years before I would have the same rights as my straight classmates. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
ability to generate profit. There is no contradiction between social impact and good profitability; in fact, profitability is central to that social impact.” Eliminating, or even alleviating, global poverty is an enormous task. About a billion of the world’s people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Mountain: Marietta knows there is no silver bullet for jump-starting the region’s economy and curing the many ills brought on by the collapse of coal and an ongoing opioid epidemic. (Nearly one-third of Harlan County’s almost 28,000 View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in 1909, he earned a scholarship... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked alumni working in the field to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who motivates patients to take better care of themselves is often overlooked,” he notes. In the fall, Jain plans to begin his final year of medical school while also spending time at HBS working with Porter. His residency ideally would... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
sorrows.” Retired since 2013, Quainton now serves as a mentor, helping new ministers find their vocation and calling. “That’s a major satisfaction for me,” he says. “They don’t have any private sector experience and can have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Treadwell Illustration by Jeff Smith A thirty-year resident of Alaska, Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) is chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. The commission, which reports to the President and Congress, sets direction for the U.S.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private... View Details