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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
New York City. Armed with a “healthy respect for what I didn't know,” he excelled as an investor and was soon asked to help start a merchant bank in London. He returned to the United States in 1973 and served as chief of financial... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Glover-Stapleton Associates, Inc., which focuses on developing environmental health and safety management systems for companies worldwide in industries as diverse as manufacturing, medicine, and financial services. They moved back to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
in six-month apprenticeships with corporate partners like Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, and Partners HealthCare. Upon graduation, Chertavian says, more than 85 percent of Year Up alumni find jobs in financial services or IT... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
rational thinking. It enhanced my confidence, so that even as a physician, I would be able to compete in business and make lifelong learning a passionate experience." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Governor, The Peres Center for Peace Member, Advisory Group, The World View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
6 percent, and the continent as a whole is growing just a point below that, compared with an average rate of 4 percent for the world's industrialized countries. The challenges are numerous, but as Nelson Mandela puts it: "There is no... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
have in common, however, is that they are all searching for market opportunities. In fact, Stevenson says, good entrepreneurs gravitate toward business opportunities for which their personalities are well-suited, such as "numbers crunchers" to View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
interview didn’t work for me.” A stint as a New England business correspondent for the Associated Press was a better fit. “Suddenly I was interviewing CEOs and covering banking scandals, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is where it’s happening,’... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
organizations. “It’s in that world that you get a glimpse of what is happening in the overall economy,” she says. “The Dun collection is remarkable in that sense because it references all of American society in the industrial age.” “The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
responsive and agile.” Not long after returning from that initial factory tour, Viana realized two things: First, no bank would touch Jeannette. Second, the government, which had expressed an interest in seeing such an old, French company... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
much more connected, pervasive, and easy to use. Greater customization will result, and the consumer will call the shots. "Companies that return power to the consumer will be the ones that thrive," Ballmer said, mentioning online banking... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
who took a start-up course at CWE after being laid off from her job as a pet groomer. She now owns Animal Spirits, a successful pet-grooming store in Cambridge. Next to her is Carrie, who came to CWE looking for advice on how to expand her View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Presented with thirteen job offers in 1978, Ann S. Moore accepted the one in the industry she knew she wanted to be in — magazine publishing. It also happened to be the one offering the lowest salary. “People were astounded with the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real estate investment company... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
function. They'll provide whatever help is currently available. As to your bank and other financial institutions, there's not much you can do - nor should you be overly concerned. Personally, I've had a problem with a credit card that... View Details