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- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
CFO in 1996. “We took that company from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars in capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
comfortable home in the Boston area, and their children didn’t want for material things. The Feingolds had long been active in their community—Jeff had volunteered for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island in college, and the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
not know each other, were born in the same remote town in China. “That was a weird coincidence,” says Montano, adding that she is now reading a book written by someone she met at the event. “It was a great feeling to be together for a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
the Civil War era. Those trees are still home to bald eagles, dozens of species of migratory songbirds, and one of the largest blue heron nesting sites in the Chesapeake, with more than 400 blue heron couples in residence. Pat Coady (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and enabled her to serve as a role model for those who are pursuing their dreams. The parents of three children, each a budding entrepreneur, she and Barry have very naturally merged their home and work lives. Every night after dinner with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Valley to Swaziland: How One Couple Found Purpose and Adventure in an Encore Career Quoted (iStock) “We’ve now surveyed thousands of executives at hundreds of companies, and they’re always shocked to see how poorly their strategy is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
is where we plan to make the first couple of units. Then we’re going to find a manufacturing facility so that we can build and deploy these, en masse, in Wyoming. Project Bison will be deployed over four major phases. In phase one—2023 to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
public offering. He sold COMPS InfoSystems six weeks before the market started to crash in March 2000. After taking a couple of years off to relax and regroup, Crane got a job offer to become CEO of Opportunity International, the world’s... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz says, “I was still young and single, and I had a business problem I was passionate about. For the first couple of years I worked out of my own checkbook and slept on a lot of friends’ couches.” Kiva Systems is named after a Hopi... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Connecting with Clubs
and Associations Committee will build on survey work the Alumni Board has conducted over the past couple of years with the help of club and association presidents. Those findings have guided committee chair George Novak (AMP 153, 1997) in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
CLARK: John has been very supportive of what we've been doing over the past sixteen months, and he's been actively involved in a couple of our ongoing initiatives. We still meet pretty regularly to compare notes on key topics. There... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
These two volunteers forged a cross-class connection that resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. When Alex Crisses stepped up to cochair his 5th Reunion, he decided to couple his own ideas about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
walked into an empty Aldrich amphitheater, I relived memories of the case method. Candy Baffour-Awuah Candy Baffour-Awuah (Accra, Ghana) Best thing about HBS? The opportunity to pick up skills in class beyond the "technical," coupled with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an elderly View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Lessons from Everest
failure to act as a true team; and a lack of “psychological safety,” a group dynamic that emboldens individual members to ask questions, admit mistakes, and express dissent. Ultimately, a failure to question leadership — coupled with the... View Details