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- Portrait Project
Umaimah Mendhro
storms, I led my way to Harvard to be amongst you. You who helped me build a school in my home-village... a place for children to craft and realize purposeful dreams. Where they can learn to reason and judge for themselves. And do not... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lee Koffler
their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another... View Details
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Alumna-Led Reproductive Health Startup Raises $4.7 Million
Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015) Photo courtesy Perelel A recent article in Forbes reports that reproductive health startup Perelel, cofounded by Victoria Thain Gioia (MBA 2015), has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Unilever... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Thinking Inside the Box
purchase, “the brothers got sidetracked by the boxes in which the treats were shipped, and started down a road that led them from Denver and a world of high finance to Baltimore and a life of corrugated cardboard,” the Baltimore Sun... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Akl
impression on me.” Yet one aspect of the trauma, the family’s one-year flight to Paris in 1989-90, also inspired more positive resolutions. “It made me want to explore the world,” says Patrick. “I also wanted the flexibility to be able to succeed wherever I go.”... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms led to a dearth of entrepreneurial human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled "Emerging Models of Corporate Research," which centered on case studies on Corning, IBM, and InnoCentive. A veteran of 27 years in industry, many of them in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Karaoke Anyone?
karaoke by launching Limelight Stage + Studios (www.limelightboston.com). Limelight’s proprietary software allows for easy browsing of a digital song library, real-time vocal processing, LED lighting control, video channels using a live... View Details
Stephen W. Sanger
Sanger began his tenure with General Mills in 1974. One of his early successes was the introduction of blue diamond marshmallows in Lucky Charms which resulted in a 15% increase in sales. During his CEO tenure, sales have increased at a rate of 6% compared to an... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Career Coach
Claire D'Silva
Claire led Strategic Business Development at Klarna before HBS and has previous experience in Strategy at Chase in New York. She led hiring for groups at both organizations and can provide insight into what... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Instagram Takeover - The HBS Show
Student Savannah Greene directs 20 actors from the first and second years of the MBA program. A writing team of 10 students, led by Head Writer Ann Hewitt (MBA ’19), penned the original story and wrote the lyrics to No Clue’s soundtrack... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
through," he said, noting that the drive for investment banking revenues on Wall Street led to conflicts of interest between those sectors. "Self-governing, particularly in the auditing process, was a disaster." Out of... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Every Gift Counts
Perry Driggs reached out to every member of the class, ensuring that the class’s support will have a lasting impact on global activities and other key needs at the School. Class of 1991 The 20th Reunion gift campaign, led by Paige... View Details
- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
The Baltimore Sun recently highlighted the work of John Lewis (MBA 2004), President and Chief Operating Officer of Harbor Bank of Maryland, which the newspaper notes became a vital pandemic-era resource for businesses looking to obtain federal Paycheck Protection... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A champion for First Nations
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Favel led the development of two national firsts for Canada: the First Nations Bank of Canada and the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority. In addition to serving as chancellor of the university,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
was really hard to put a deal together. Despite that, all the creditors, the management team, the board, and 11 of the 12 unions either approved the deal or agreed not to oppose this deal. And it was one union with bad information and bad judgment that really View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
new group. And in the largest show of confidence in other people demonstrated by anyone mentioned in this book, Nelson Mandela opened discussion on a new constitution for South Africa to thousands of people in town meetings all over his country. He View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter