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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is also the chairman of the C40, a group of fellow mayors from the world’s 40 largest cities who have banded together to fight climate change. Bloomberg has recently returned from a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
its own members to fund future expansion. What’s in Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar’s grocery bags? It may depend on if she’s carrying reusuable bags. In a series of experiments, Karmarkar and a fellow researcher found that when... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Fellow at HBS and the former Secretary of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), opened the case discussion by asking what the BNVC creators had done well, and what they could do better. This sparked a robust conversation that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
fabric, Suvanto, Goldman, and their teams created the Media Fellows Program, which gives LEDA Scholars credentialed experience through a year-long program that supports the organization through student-created content. It also gives the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
which focuses on financial innovation and the use of financial engineering techniques by corporations, may fit this general description, for some time now Tufano has also been involved in a very different project aimed at "trying to teach... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
for innovation and show people how to overcome their own blind spots. He lives with his wife and his 2 children in Atlanta, GA. MODERATOR Bill George Harvard Business School (HBS) Senior Fellow and former... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
your own business but been too scared to move beyond your comfort zone? Have any of your innovative ideas been ruled out by your boss due to a lack of vision or risk-taking culture? If so, you are not alone. The Entrepreneurial Guide is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
comprehensive playbook for business leaders and people on their way up to give the best presentations of their lives. More often than not, the best intentions and most innovative ideas get lost in a poorly executed presentation. With... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
"South Africans expect a lot from the president," says Meyer, a recent graduate of the School's Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa (SEP). "They are looking for the presidency to improve day-to-day living conditions." Meyer's Pretoria office oversees all... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
from taking capsules contaminated with cyanide. According to the article, Burke's "defining moment" actually came six years earlier when he challenged his fellow executives to either recommit to the company credo or "tear it off the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
When Klump discussed the matter with a fellow team member, she laughed and told him, “You are too American! No matter how toned down your comments might be, it’s still too direct.” The incident and its aftermath, Klump says, were largely... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
take away a valuable tool — a computer. They will be on par with fellow students who have a computer at home." Since the project's launch last October, more than a dozen HBSAAA volunteers have dedicated several hours every other Saturday... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
chief made the projects sound simple enough - nothing that Singaporean efficiency could not solve. Fellow panelist William Liley, managing director of Asian Infrastructure Fund Advisers Ltd., which manages the Asian Infrastructure Fund,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
membership records. He couldn’t find one specializing in record keeping, so he and fellow research assistant, Tom Jones (MBA 1968), offered to serve as consultants and complete the project. That’s how Epsilon Data Management was born in... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
the 2000 presidential election played out in the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision made him pause: “I became very disheartened with politics as a way to move the needle,” Singer says. He was still writing, though. And while he hadn’t... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
shores of Turtle Island. But for all the rest of us who long to shed the chains of everyday responsibilities, memorable escapes are also within reach. Much of the credit for that belongs to Club Méditerranée, the original purveyor of paradise to the masses. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
million people—to make donations to efforts to organizations like Turkey’s AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Authority), Red Crescent of Kazakhstan, and the National Volunteer Network. “Kaspi.kz’s mission is to improve people’s lives by developing View Details