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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
organizing the Lean In Community (on Facebook, of course). Some of her advice is useful no matter one's gender, given Sandberg's disparate career stops at Facebook and Google, the Treasury Department, and McKinsey & Company. For example,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
anything that moves to block innovation by competitors. But what does this mean for standard-setting organizations? In this Q&A, Professor Josh Lerner explains the challenges these organizations face. View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental. As a high-school student when... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
Williams writes: “The surprise celebration was held on an early spring afternoon in 1968 on the tarmac at Logan just as Zschau disembarked from his plane. It was organized by Chandler Daniels, a former member of The Highwaymen (a 1960s... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
educational organization Zearn, which Sharma cofounded in 2012 and has served as CEO since 2016. Improving math education is a daunting enterprise, especially in the United States. According to the most recent results of the Program for... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Patriots Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty. What started with the couple grew to five staffers working out of the couple’s home. Today, the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
response to escalating health-care costs, and HBS professor Debora L. Spar on the market realities of adoption and in vitro fertilization (see “The Business of Babies”). For more information about the HBS Health Industry Alumni... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
At first glance, not many would figure the bookish president and CEO of telecommunications carrier China Netcom Corporation for a revolutionary. But Edward Tian Suning is certainly making waves as head of one of the country’s new brand of state-owned enterprises (SOE).... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
'59) RELATED PROFILE: World Banker, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) A key early supporter and informal advisor to Wolfensohn during the intellectual evolution of EDP was former HBS Dean John H. McArthur, an MBA classmate of Wolfensohn's,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
underwent a mastectomy and survived, and Smyth kept the family secret for more than a decade. That’s all changed now—in part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s. When the View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Donor Spotlight
Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ Walter Haydock When it comes to philanthropy, Walter Haydock (MBA 1979) may shun the spotlight, but the impact of his support shines at... View Details
Keywords: veterans; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s Global Experience Office and by the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
background information, initiate candidate contacts, and begin serving as the conduit between the parties. Finally, when the candidate list has been winnowed to a few individuals, the directors again return to the forefront, calling upon their many contacts to provide... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study and identified language differences “as the most divisive,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
CEO of Borders Group, Inc. - which includes more than 250 Borders Books & Music superstores around the globe, 900 Waldenbooks stores throughout the United States, and Borders.com - DiRomualdo runs an organization that rang up $2.6 billion... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner