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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
West Point days, entered the military, “it was because we wanted to be part of something greater than ourselves,” says Jung, who was a member of a unit responsible for clearing bombs while deployed in Afghanistan. She explains that she... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Stanley's international investment banking operations. On returning to New York, he took over responsibility for the firm's global equity capital markets business, and in 1997, he became an advisory... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
energy and environmental issues and led him to launch a think tank focused on how to shift energy investment to bring about more energy efficiency. Eager to put his analysis into practice, Sant and a partner founded Applied Energy... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
demanding better-quality ESG data to evaluate ongoing investment management. During Startup Bootcamp, a short intensive program for first-year MBA students, Murday and a team of classmates explored the idea of a TurboTax-style platform... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
investment in the city’s human capital, requiring work that is much more subtle, nuanced, and difficult to see. This is Chattanooga’s, and the nation’s, toughest challenge to date—one that will require the collaborative focus of leaders... View Details
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
American Petroleum Institute. At Harvard and Harvard Business School, Hess learned the language of business and the languages of the countries where Hess did business, including Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi. “I had no idea at the time that this View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
theory is that, as chess players increase their skills, they increase the use of their frontal lobes—the part of the brain responsible for memory and determining consequences of actions. Chess, according to Berman, teaches children to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
while she worked at BrainHeart Energy. She has since founded Antarez Global Impact Capital, which is focusing on investment in large-scale sustainable infrastructure. As a board member for the HBS Club of Sweden, she focuses on promoting... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
linked to the Harvard Business School in perpetuity through the building that will bear their name." Speaking briefly, Spangler thanked the Dean for the opportunity to make an investment so closely tied to the quality of student life at... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
included,” she says. “How is that so hard?” “If you have the opportunity to be successful, it is your responsibility to let somebody else stand on your shoulders.” “If you have the opportunity to be successful, it is your View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
for faculty members or help them pursue a particular avenue of inquiry across regions. More recently, the responsibilities of HBS global outposts have expanded to include helping to facilitate student immersions in a variety of markets... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
The “Manila Water Company” case made me feel even more strongly about designing a career with social welfare as a goal, not just as an option. It also made me think differently about investing and want to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
molecules responsible for transporting DNA code from a cell's nucleus to the ribosomes that create proteins. mRNA Therapeutics, as the company calls this new drug application, gives patients' cells the code they need to begin creating... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
is perfectly good, if not essential, to make a profit while also doing good for the world. Guy Rubenstein (MBA 1994) CEO, Aveeram Wind Being Responsible Towards the Environment Is a Great Financial View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons