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- 13 May 2013
- News
Connections That Last
her passion for HBS by participating each year in a letter-writing campaign to classmates encouraging support for the Dean’s Fund and personalizing each letter with a handwritten note. View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in Africa that define themselves as a... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949
Former CEO and President, Bloomingdale’s Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: A.B., Harvard College, 1947 On Leadership: “Leadership is the ability to face up to change and encourage new ideas and concepts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
lend his business savvy to help found a museum dedicated to American writers similar to the Dublin Writers Museum of O’Hagan’s native Ireland. The museum, which includes a children’s books exhibit, encourages visitor engagement. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
encouraged to add local sessions, and the course also involves locally focused student group projects. Teaching the course was different, says Sölvell, because all pre-class faculty meetings, classroom case discussions, lectures, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Canadian Hero
said University of Toronto president J. Robert Prichard. After accepting the club's award -- and with it, a Harvard chair -- Schwartz, a Winnipeg native, briefly discussed his career and, quoting President Theodore Roosevelt, encouraged... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Zameer Kassam, MBA 2007
been focused on creating my business, and Rob has been an incredible mentor, helping me to crystalize the values of the business. HBS opened so many doors for me, and I want to encourage others to follow their passion.” In appreciation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
the Skills Gap Project, the college debuted a new health-care curriculum designed to meet the skill needs of a nearby medical center. Their next project: encouraging other HBS alumni clubs to tackle the issue in their communities. “We can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
lives and encourages project participants to think of their reflections as a guidepost, not a prescription. “To put it in HBS terms, it is a balance sheet—i.e., a specific view of a snapshot in time; not an income statement, i.e. a view... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
programs feature outstanding HBS faculty teaching the latest in business strategy and management - I encourage all of you to participate. For a listing of upcoming programs and contact information for the Executive-Education Programs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
encourage others to do the same” as President Drew Faust and her team “guide the University forward” (Boston Globe, March 20, 2012). Now head of Belmont Capital, O’Donnell is a former dean of students at HBS, a recipient of the HBS Alumni... View Details
- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
again now,” she says. “There are so many ways people stay connected with the School and this is just one of them.” Fitzpatrick encourages alumni who know of employment or internship opportunities for students to email cpd@hbs.edu, and if... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Hart also serves as faculty director of the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 initiative at HBS that was created to encourage the inclusion of more female protagonists in business cases. She is faculty coordinator of the Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who... View Details
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
paid attention to.” After two years of planning, and a slight delay due to COVID, Moment launched in June 2020 and won Best Startup Beverage at the BevNET New Beverage Showdown 2020. While the company’s tagline encourages potential... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Denmark West (MBA 1998), serve on its board of directors. Says Marmon, “I encourage black women, as they contemplate their futures, to pursue their dreams and surround themselves with people who will guide, nurture, and help them realize... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
one is encouraging their work.” Based on his background, he knew that business could provide the solution. “I thought I should create an art market rather than complaining about the lack of one.” (Published May 2016) View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
revenues at $20 million per year, a friend encouraged him to apply to HBS’s Owner/President Management (OPM) program. “I didn’t even know where Harvard Business School was,” says Hesham with a laugh. The experience changed his life.... View Details