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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Saladrigas managed to save $400 -- by mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and waxing cars -- to help his parents get settled when they arrived from Cuba in 1962. Tragically, his mother then developed cancer, and Saladrigas dropped out of high school to help View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
yang. Korean and American. Novelist and dealmaker. Kim will tell you that these parts of himself are in harmony, preferring that word to the more Western concept of “balance,” which implies a trade-off. When asked, he will also say that he doesn’t subscribe to any... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
benefit corporation. There are many ways that we can combine the structure and strategy and capital to get to local ownership. But ultimately, this has to work for the people who care about this in Colorado. We’re facilitating that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
believe is crucial to society. “You need to invest in the pipeline in order for things to change,” says Victoria, an independent consultant focused on health care and technology. “We believe that we need more diversity—race, gender,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong environmental policies arose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
itself. It's all very exciting in theory, but moving a company from a one-man, one-patent startup to an organization that could change the face of therapy takes some business strategy. "We have a big sense of responsibility to make this... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
account base salary, an evenly divided partner's share of the profits, and another share based solely on seniority. Candidates who pass muster find themselves part of a diverse and far-reaching organization... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
typically hectic month last spring, he taught in three HBS executive education programs, gave several presentations to alumni, and spent a day each in Nicaragua and Costa Rica leading an effort to create an economic vision for Central America involving the seven heads... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
Through these meetings I’ve gained a greater appreciation for how deeply people care about the School and the role they wish to see us to play in the world. I’ve also come to see how the collective efforts of this community are the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
another factor.” Still, after more reflection, Enan realized that the conveniences she enjoyed in the States were also the reason she wanted to leave. She was getting too comfortable. “I thought I cared about things I didn’t actually... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of the NYC annual potlucks and served as both... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
very simple, transform and help unlock the massive potential that Panera has as a brand. That was the mandate. Gulati: You're an outsider parachuting into an organization that is deeply entrenched, has looked up to a founder. How do you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Massachusetts, as well as at offices in London, Berlin, New Delhi, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Strongest in the Latin typefaces, where the company got its start, Monotype is growing the number of offerings available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
material rewards of business. They will come if you first take care to match your abilities with the opportunities that are available." CURRENT READING When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, by David Maraniss When Joe... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
development projects that are imposed from above, with little concern for local needs. By the time she arrived at HBS, Dlodlo was herself the single mother of a two-year-old daughter, a circumstance that made business school a grind: class during the day, taking View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
multiple dimensions.” O’Leary and her husband, DaVita Kidney Care chairman and CEO Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), are alumni leaders whose longtime support of the School includes a recent gift to establish an MBA Program innovation fund. They... View Details