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- 17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life
only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
captured the redoubt. Hamilton, sword in hand and the first person to leap into the fray, could not have written a better script or carried it off with more élan. It was the perfect culmination of his time in the army, and it made him a legitimate View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
interviewer in 2013. It was a quantifiable argument: A major National Endowment for the Arts survey released that year reported that only about 20 percent of Americans visit museums annually, but 71 percent engaged with the arts through... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
SOAKING IT IN: Scott Smith has proven the absorbency of his firm's Opflex polymer foam at major oil spills in the Gulf and China. Last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster was back on the front pages in early January when the National... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
entrepreneurship and STEM subjects in a major at college," says Earls. "It's an opportunity to marry technical disciplines with entrepreneurial spirit. The future of this nation will require technical skills and the thinking of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
to allow displaced Cambodians to return to their country after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Then it was on to Somalia, where he served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and cofounded International View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Americans—especially those in the business community—do to increase the ability of firms to compete successfully in the global economy while raising US living standards? This is one of the most important questions facing the nation and... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
has never been more important.” Central to Point of Care’s mission is the belief that patient care improves when health care providers are well supported. In addition to her finance, HR, and strategy responsibilities, Sandford also directs the foundation’s Schwartz... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
recognized that conserved land has many embedded values: limited development (environmentally friendly real estate), sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration potential, recreation (eco-tourism), water rights, and more. Profits for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
founder of Friendfactor (www.friendfactor.org), an enterprise that aims to mobilize a national grassroots movement to accelerate the achievement of full legal equality for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Americans. Last... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural economic View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
coffee, banana, and textile businesses, Silbert developed a strong interest in microenterprise and arrived at Soldiers Field eager to expand her knowledge. “Initially, I had a hard time trying to share my experiences with others,” she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
2010, the upscale national grocer—at the gentle suggestion of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow—came to look at properties in central Detroit. One of them was a vacant piece of land that Cummings owned on Mack Avenue in Midtown, next to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly