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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
and Zimbabwe, the SEP brings together Africans of all races to work and learn from one another. The networking opportunities are boundless, and new friendships are often continued upon completion of the program. Through team workshops,... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
prepared for our special event. Dressed in black tie and tux and carrying a flaming paper torch, we raced to the chute, this time with bogus papers. There was, as always, the usual throng cheering our action. We deposited the papers and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
correspondent and former White House correspondent, and Stewart, VP of Global Partnerships at Google, surveyed 4,000 cross-generational women across four races for the book. Among the contributors to the book are Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Impact Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard with HBS professors George Serafeim and Peter Tufano. Key takeaway: “Many companies are racing to invent, finance, scale, and deploy technologies to decarbonize—while they... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
control, and it’s up to you to optimize those factors. Planning ahead, communicating, anticipating, and being flexible are all important. “The importance of building teams and relationships that stay calm during crises. I remember during an important View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
black rights offers a firsthand view of the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. Think Inside the Box: Discover the Exceptional Business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
carbon-free renewables: Between 2007 and 2019, Europeans poured 3.84 billion into wave and tidal energy, most of it from the private sector. That flood of money has made Europe the clear leader in the race to commercialize marine energy.... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
"I think the human race is beginning to unravel what life is," says Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999). "I find that intellectually fascinating." His interest, and a desire to make a difference, led Farquharson to the life sciences industry,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
2006, Schmults said that “any time you’re in a tough retail environment and your traffic is up 50 percent, you know you’re doing something right.” He added, “This is a happy place to work. How could it not be? You see kids racing around... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic that “has blown disparities in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
You’re an Old Fuelie
Hyde, a New Yorker, now devotes himself to keeping that same 1960 Fuelie active and purring and documenting the history of Corvette racing, heretofore a virtual tabula rasa. Hyde and other fans are working on an online registry (registryofcorvetteracecars.com) that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Six drone companies put their wares in the air during Making Robotics Fly, a daylong event cohosted by HBS and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to explore the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship. Among the flyers: Drone View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
that was very much of interest to a lot of outdoor and sports companies.” On her first ultramarathon, in Madagascar: “I didn’t have proper running shoes, I had no equipment, and I definitely wasn’t trained. So the race was an adventure.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
individual rowers, lose regularly in practice to the supposedly less talented Army JV boat. The two big questions facing Coach P are: Why is this happening? What can be done about it? And that’s what the students must grapple with as well.” Crew View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
issues at the intersection of race and business,” states HBS professor David Thomas. “He was the first to look at the experience of African-American professionals and managers in the post–civil rights era, and he continues to blaze trails... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. She helps us find our “ordinary privilege,” the part of our everyday identity that we take for granted, such as race... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Although Wilcox did not know it at the time, that disaster would lead him to his next business—Transatomic Power—which he hopes will transform the energy sector. “I’m not sure how the human View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
of my race, gender, age, professional background, or some combination thereof. And it probably doesn’t matter: Assumptions about race and gender exist across all contexts, and those stereotypes are likely no worse at HBS than anywhere... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they have the right to be great. I wouldn’t say we’re a great company. I’d say we’re getting close.” Race of one: “I time every run I do, because I’m competing with myself and it matters. I refuse to accept that I’m slower than I was when... View Details