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01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

Portrait Project

Zuriel Chavez

reasoning. These dinners served as my early education and led me to where I am today. On March 23, 1995, with the Chavez family at his side, my Grandpa passed away. His legacy was to love regardless of skin color, language, or ideology. I... View Details

13 Aug 2019
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program?

Hubbell Fadule, and the Director of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, Cara Sterling, to find out the answers to these questions and more. Listen to the Podcast >>> Program Details The Master of Science (MS) Degree component is led... View Details

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John Safer Search 1983 | About

monumental public works and commissions. In 1979, he made a bronze sculpture for Harvard Law School titled Judgment , which led to the commission for HBS. Search was designed in 1983, cast in bronze by the Tallix foundry in New York, and... View Details

14 Sep 2018
News

Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis

event hosted by the Yale School of Management and the Brookings Institute and in an extended interview with public radio's Marketplace. The event, Brookings notes, was “part of an initiative, led by the three former officials, to document... View Details

30 Sep 2015
News

Looking to Rwanda’s Future

investing where the country has a natural competitive advantage,” Goldstein explains. That strategy has led to significant advances in areas such as tourism, coffee and tea production, and incubators and maker spaces for start-up... View Details

Career Coach

Michele Chambliss

leverages her strengths in strategic messaging and attention to detail. She serves as Board President for a non-profit and has led hiring for leadership roles there and at another non-profit. Michele holds a BS Electrical Engineering from... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

Enforcers of regulatory laws are making some headway, particularly since the passage last summer of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but their work as a whole needs more teeth, according to panelists at the session on regulation and enforcement. The session was View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2023
News

Life Preserver

When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

after graduating from HBS, at the height of the Korean War, Berkley served an additional 17 months, 11 of which were in Korea. As a first lieutenant in the infantry, he led his platoon on night patrols. It was a harrowing experience: “Of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

from that conference in new courses and cases, and students are connecting with alumni for mentorship. Executive Education now offers a course for leaders of environmental organizations. The course, led by BEI faculty chair Mike Toffel,... View Details

22 Mar 2022
News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

government, but in our respective industries. We need to be heard,” she says, adding that she works with the HBS Club of New York (HBSNYC) on a project to help Chinese-speaking businesses. There were also personal connections formed. One conversation View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

Competition (photo by Susan Young) That realization later led Paiji Yoo (who left HBS after her first year to pursue a mobile shopping startup she created) and her sectionmate John Mascari (MBA 2012) to cofound Blueland, which makes... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 May 2016
News

W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975

learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for the last decade before stepping down... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2014
News

Net Gains

there is different: For the past 11 years, the league has run a Basketball without Borders camp, bringing together nearly 900 up-and-coming players from 31 African countries for a weeklong training program. Led by NBA stars past and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

Portrait Project

Sabina Robinov

decision. My siblings, who are taking care of my father, also bear the burden. These experiences led me to the realization that, in my life, I want to maximize and live up to my potential – both for me, and my family. While the sacrifice... View Details

09 Oct 2019
News

Building a Tradition of Giving

Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company he founded in 1995 and led through 2005. He set out to build a company with a “good soul,” he says. “We were like the U.N.—we had one of everything—Hilton, Hyatt, Doubletree, and more and so we had... View Details

07 Sep 2016
News

Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business

and Royce Yudkoff are leading the course Financial Management of Smaller Firms, in which students learn how to identify, acquire, and run small firms. This popular class has led to a shift in mindset, helping HBS MBAs see new... View Details

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to pursue this research? Amy Edmondson: This research, rather than being a single project, is part of a fifteen-year program of a half dozen or so projects in different settings, all focused on learning in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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