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- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
after eating prepared food cooked in a cross-contaminated pan. The couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT) to advance scientific and medical research in order to find treatments and cures. Among EAT’s founding principles is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
taking with them nothing but a travel trailer and a portable generator. For the next five years, they slept in a yurt while David designed and built their new home. Deciding to work with nature rather than trying to alter it, the couple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
regulatory issues, as well as intense competition from Europe’s Airbus. “The task here is growth,” said McNerney of his new assignment at Chicago-based Boeing. “That’s the thing we’ve got to get right over the next couple of years”... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
The Next Play
Players Association. Today, Foxworth is pleased to be focused on family—he has three children—and to speak freely on issues that matter to him, from the Black Lives Matter movement to the reality of concussion injuries in the NFL. “I don’t fear failure,” Foxworth said... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Helping Women Executives Return to Work
ladder by moving from employer to employer every couple years,” she says. “They’re not going to take the information and go off and start their own business. They’re committed to the organization they’re working for and they are really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Exploring Vietnam and Cambodia
seascape of more than 1,600 limestone islands. Shutterbugs in the group were hard-pressed to take bad shots. The sea kayaking wasn’t so shabby, either! We journeyed next to Hue, the former capital of Vietnam, and then stopped for a couple... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
to think of ways to solve our most vexing problems in the social sector, and so we keep doing the same thing again and again, even if it’s not working. “I founded Ready to Blend a couple of years ago because there is a real need for... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge — and little discussed. HBS professor Debora L. Spar addressed the market realities of adoption and scientific conception at the 2003 Alumni Health-Care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Map Quest
use your GPS to locate the brand-new Map & Atlas Museum at 7825 Fay Avenue. Or better yet, unfold a crinkly old paper street map to find it. Mike Stone (MBA ’88) might find that latter method more appropriate. A couple of decades ago,... View Details
Keywords: maps
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s Investment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
HBS Wins Green Business Award
64 cubic yards of growing medium spread over 5,000 square feet and planted with 9,000 perennials, photovoltaic panels, a cogeneration unit, and a full lighting retrofit. Since 2003, HBS has enacted more than 100 energy conservation measures. These measures, View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
to a couple of strengths. Being attuned to other people and the diversity of their needs came from my childhood traveling with my father, because he interacted with people of all different levels. “Also, developing people is really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
Jamie Dinan (MBA 1985), Clifford Press (MBA 1983), (standing) Beth Fascitelli (MBA 1984), Mike Fascitelli (MBA 1982), Elizabeth Miller (MBA 1985), and Elizabeth Sawyer (MBA 1983) at the New York City HBS Couples Dinner held in December at... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT)—a research nonprofit that aims to accelerate treatments and cures for food allergies—with Tom and Kim Hall, another couple whose daughter lives with a similar... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
good return on their product, more than enough to offset the increased cost of additional labor, says Wiviott. “You do the conversions for a couple of years,” he says, “and then after that you have a very stable cash flow from these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
A graduate of St. Louis University and a Rhodes Scholar, Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., had never considered attending HBS. Then he spent a couple of years in the business world, at Price Waterhouse. “I became much more interested in business,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
Arthur flour is hailed by famous chefs such as Julia Child and Graham Kerr for its superior quality. Of the company's exacting standards, Sands noted, "A couple of years ago, we shipped back eleven freight cars of flour because it was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
exchange to Deckinger. “Holy $#!&,” Tongish wrote, “it’s your wife!” Tongish was right. Kushner and Deckinger married in 2007, while Kushner—who now goes by Deckinger—was pursuing her MBA at HBS. Today, the couple has three young girls... View Details
Keywords: April White