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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help support their family. A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
of commercial tech monetization, which includes wearable products in the health care category. The opportunity appealed to me in part because it uses so much of what I learned this year, including term sheets, market evaluation, and what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
also focusing on the middle skills gap, including Richard Kane (MBA 1968) and Bruce Bockmann (MBA 1967), who are leading HBS Club of New York members’ groundbreaking efforts to connect tech and health care firms with interns from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
located in a Greek Revival plantation home. He now serves as mayor of Marietta, a job he describes as both rewarding and frustrating. His reason for running? “Payback. It’s a trite but true answer. This town has been good to me.” My father worked his way through the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
that I could invest the rest of my career in helping people.” To that end, Downing started taking science classes three years ago. Then, while searching for a medical school that would accept a mid-career student, he stumbled upon a new joint program, offered by... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
investor and advisor, Zhivago could bring the investment experience, and Schucht, now chief medical officer for the company, added his decades of knowledge as a neurosurgeon to the startup. To Schucht, the head of neurosurgical oncology at the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
will go on to join the faculties of this and other universities around the globe.” The gift is the largest ever given to a doctoral program at a business school. It will be used to establish the Hansjoerg Wyss Endowment for Doctoral... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
in Chicago that was linked via Webcast to the HBS conference. Cyberposium@Chicago addressed the specific needs and interests of the Chicago high-tech and new-media community, bringing students and alumni from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including The Nature Conservancy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Family Health International. The remaining participants represented a variety of disciplines - sociology, business, and public... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
event was chaired by HBS professors Richard Hamermesh and Robert Huckman, with colleagues from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. The goal of the gathering and the focus of its panels, said Hamermesh, were to come up with ways... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
communities of color who include the voices of community members in their decision-making.” Unknown to Big Funders The NCF focuses on four pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic empowerment; View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
semester, Roberto notes that it gives MBA students a chance to reflect on what kind of manager they want to be. “It also evokes a lot of emotion,” he adds, particularly after Levy fires his COO. “The class is universally in awe of Levy,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS exposed me for the first time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
had done well for themselves and enjoyed sharing their good fortune. Recognizing McArthur’s potential, the Koerners offered to help finance his college education — an unusual next step for members of his high-school class. He and Natty enrolled at the View Details