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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
Meanwhile, graduates are snapped up by financial, consulting, and other leading firms at ever-increasing starting salaries. So where’s the rub? Despite these positive indicators, there are deep-rooted concerns about the “industry.” For... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
sales/finance leader, and inspirational change agent who works at Red Hat/IBM. He was the first blind executive to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and has been featured with NBC, Forbes, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Entrepreneurial Finance elective in the MBA curriculum. In the Executive Education Program, he has developed materials for and served as codirector of courses in Conflict and Evolution in Private Equity, Corporate Venture Capital, and International Private Equity. A... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
casualties," he said, would be the likely result. Counterterrorism and international affairs have been central elements of Bremer's career. Entering the diplomatic service immediately after graduating from HBS, he embarked on several... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
biology and chemistry to prepare for a career related to helping the environment. An introductory course in economics changed all that. "I realized that economic issues drove many of the decisions companies... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Ramanna. Economic tools of supply and demand can also be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
opportunities for positive social impact. “I came to HBS from the Marine Corps. In my Marine Corps experience, I spent several years in Iraq working in counterinsurgency, and from those experiences I became very interested in economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995) was studying economics at Dartmouth in the 1980s when he interviewed for a summer internship at Meredith & Grew, an old-line Boston brokerage and real estate development firm. “If you wanted to say, ‘one of these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the shareholders are primarily measured in... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
companies to recruit qualified managers. “We help people who are looking to return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, the high GDPs, and the need for management talent, but who aren’t sure how to go about... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
once the SEC makes its moves. It's the first time the pair has worked together. After they graduated from high school, Callaghan pursued undergraduate studies in economics at Harvard College. Two years after... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of Defense. "I enjoyed public service so much," he says, "that thirty years later, I'm still at it!" After graduating from HBS, and after more years of service at the Defense Ministry, Yeo was named chairman of Singapore's View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources
by Ann Kelly, Alumni Board President Kelly Whether you graduated last June or just celebrated a reunion with a number you don’t enjoy saying aloud, you may be among those alumni who see HBS’s contribution to your development as having... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
creating a net benefit per year of $28,740 for the individual and $26,260 for the government. Over a 20-year career, for 39 participants, these benefits would generate $67 million in benefits to the government and a total economic benefit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion and debate on China, Hong Kong,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
Khare notes. "After two days of programming classes, I knew engineering would be too tame." Completing the Wharton program in just four years, Khare earned two BS degrees, one in engineering, the other in economics, both magna cum laude. Following his View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
(I've always been a car buff!) when I was ten. I can remember going with my dad to the stockbroker's and sitting there watching the NYSE and AMEX tapes, learning all the companies' symbols. And when I was in graduate school in applied... View Details