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- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
He began as president and chief operating officer in 1989 and led the company as CEO from 1991 until 2001, serving as chairman of the board from 1996–2002. He returned to HBS as a member of the faculty in 2004. “My whole goal in life is to have a positive View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
result of a recent $10 million gift to Salesianum’s endowment. “A $10 million gift is rare for any secondary school,” Kennealey observes. “The impact was tremendous and has gone a long way toward making our experience affordable for all... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
tomorrow’s transformative companies will have their greatest impact not in the material world but on the most basic elements of the human experience of life — health, physical well-being, and mortality. For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
capital. We invest strategically, with the aim of keeping HBS at the top. In a zero-profit model, our greatest challenges are providing a transformational education for our students and funding the great ideas of our faculty. Faculty are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
also as an insightful manager, a man of high ethical standards, and a team player. He provides more than money—quite often, his advice and counsel have been the key elements that helped entrepreneurs transform a good idea into a great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Building New Connections
DAS’S DEEP IMPACT Outgoing Senior Associate Dean for External Relations Das Narayandas leaves a legacy of notable accomplishments after five years in the role. Narayandas, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
was also wondrous, he says, because it was such a transformative experience, and it is one that he wants other people to have. “I got more exposure to so many folks who were aspiring to do great things in the business world: the guest... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entrepôt to China. After the Communists came to power in 1949, Hong Kong had to transform itself as a manufacturing center, and our company changed to one of exporting what Hong Kong produced. It built its reputation exporting... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
about a week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Apr 2025
- News
Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships
Fund to ensure that promising students from underrepresented and lower-income backgrounds could afford the transformative experience of an HBS education. That generosity, rooted in Kraft’s own journey from modest beginnings in Brookline,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
In the course of their outstanding professional careers, this year’s five recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award — the School’s highest honor — have had an enormous impact on the world of business. A surprising key to their success?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
behavior of all those people, one by one—or change what we’re making on the front end and have a greater impact on the world overall.” —Bridget Nyland (MBA 2019), Co-Chair, Energy and Environment Club’s Energy Symposium MBA Program:... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
make an impact at the intersection of the public and private sectors. “I wanted to envision a future state and bring it to life,” he says. A dream job, he wrote, would be secretary of economic development in Louisiana. Less than a decade... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession.... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
adults, but not this painting. It’s beautiful. I’m the living result of what simple exposure can do,” she says. “Art should be accessible, because you don’t know what children will take away. It has a transformational and transportational... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Leaders Program, which he helped to develop. A Supplement to Manual Tracing See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved health care delivery and discovery.... View Details