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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
seventy HBS students who participated in the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program, which gives financial support to MBA students who choose to work in the public and nonprofit sectors during the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start while Kenny and Sean were still students at HBS. In addition... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
Having grown up in Pakistan, Tarim Wasim (MBA 2005) and other Boston-based students and professionals started the Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) in 2003 to support the best local nonprofits. Wasim, a Baker Scholar at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
building. Her banker, however, refused to loan her all the money she needed. That should not have come as a surprise given that her school’s enrollment would fill only three of the twelve floors, and Russo had no plans to sublet the rest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
multi-disciplinary team project to create a business plan for commercializing research from a university or private sector lab. As Dean Nohria explained, "With student interest in entrepreneurship at an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
serving some 10 million students a month, and used in more than 300,000 classrooms around the world to teach math, science, arts, economics, and more. Khan, who now leads a team of 60 at the non-profit, counts Microsoft’s Bill and Melinda... View Details
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- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
China’s educational system is undergoing a radical transformation—from an emphasis on rote memorization to teaching styles that emphasize critical and creative-thinking skills. And Chen Weiming is at the forefront of that change. Chen is founder of Xing Wei College, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
public, somebody is always opposed. But that’s the exception. On other occasions, consensus is worth striving for.” Asked by a student about moving from the private to public sector, Whitehead said, “I found... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Richard Kondo Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Blending military leadership and View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
differences between consumers in the United States and Europe was just one of the topics covered at the fourth annual European Business Conference, presented November 21 and 22 by students of the HBS European Club. Other panels considered... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
about it. “I tell students that between the time they brush their teeth and walk into my ten o’clock class, 267 people have died of AIDS,” Barrett comments. “It’s something that touches us on a daily basis, but we’re in-oculated to it.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
and the participating organization. Approximately one-third of program alumni are now permanent hires of the organization, one-third are at a similar organization, and one-third have gone on to pursue a position in the private sector. “My... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure compared with the nonprofit sector,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
students - the CitiAssist Loan Program - that has made aid available to a wider cross section of students. In addition, we are working even harder to reach women and minority candidates. Is there a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
urbanization, resource scarcity, and the private financing of public infrastructure,” remarks Macomber. “When those three factors come together they alter conventional conceptions of ‘real estate’ and the built environment.” Dharavi... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone
Roscini As news headlines continue to validate uncertainty about the European debt crisis, HBS students have a direct line to an expert in the field. Senior Lecturer Dante Roscini (MBA 1988), the L.E. Simmons Faculty Fellow, left a... View Details