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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
stuck with him. He talked to local organic farmers to learn more about the nuts and bolts of planting, watering, and harvesting. Hundreds of miles to the northwest, at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska, he found indigenous... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
finance, but lacked role models to show him the way. That's when he joined ASU's Hispanic Students Business Association and met a local investment banker and entrepreneur named Gary Trujillo (MBA 1990), who became a life-changing mentor.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
line the shelves of Saladrigas's office. In addition to fighting corruption in local government, he was involved in last spring's negotiations between Elián González's Miami relatives and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. That task proved... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
to work developing new jobs to soften the economic impact of a local Navy base closure. While she had no idea that entree would lead to working for the president and representing small business on Capitol Hill, saying yes to the challenge... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would take the lumber and sell it to the View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
boxing center. It’s all part of the regular outreach he conducts with local businesses to garner backing for the “support” side of the El Monte PD’s mission. Timken’s search for gang activity one recent afternoon includes using a digital... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
informative, engaging and thought-provoking.” The HBS Club of Seattle reported that their GNN gathering was officially its “best attended” event with more than 100 alumni in attendance. The cocktail reception featured wines by women winemakers, an appetizer spread from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
at Kwinters, the hot-dog stand in my local mall, where I learned how to cook five varieties of hot dogs, managed cash, cleaned the oily fryers and greasy hot-dog containers, and earned minimum wage. It was a great initial lesson in how,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
communication, transportation, and travel, creating a new commercial reality. He argued that the future belonged not to the multinational corporation but to the global corporation that did not cater to local differences. Known for his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
wasn’t a good fit. I switched to business because it seemed like easy grades, to be honest, and put myself through school by working at a small brokerage firm. After graduating I went to the local Merrill Lynch office and interviewed for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
“These solutions are simply too expensive for local utilities and municipal governments to do alone,” says Littlefield, who is the former CFO of Poseidon Water, a group focused on development, management, and investment in water projects... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
local business, civic, community, and nonprofit leaders—in different cities across the country. The group is also in contact with representatives from 30 additional communities that are in the earlier stages of thinking about... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
“Women are well represented in the banking and government sectors in Egypt,” says Enan. But there are still gaps, which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
second chance. We are responsible for and witnesses to permanent and irreversible damage to our climate, and it is our collective responsibility to respond. As business leaders, we must collaborate with governments at the global, national, state, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
rediscovered from the sector’s 18th-century roots. By embracing the three Cs as modern-day differentiators, Raffaelli found that independent bookstores have transformed buying a novel in your local bookstore from a simple exchange of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
Nearly half of HBS’s 82 clubs and associations sponsor social enterprise programs that put alumni management and leadership skills to work on behalf of local communities and the School, according to a recent survey. Club activities fall... View Details