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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
rents and taxes that accompany rising property values. Dlodlo’s commitment to affordable housing came as a balm, as did her willingness to engage the community. When Dlodlo retained the renowned architecture firm Gensler to develop the... View Details
- 23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Institute of Education and Research Claudio Haddad is a dreamer with a unique ability to temper his idealism with practicality. Having served as economics professor, government leader, and bank CEO, the modest Brazilian is now View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
escalated to the level of assault, as Dixon alleged in the Times reporting. She went home and told her roommate what had happened, then scrawled out a letter of resignation and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
James Has New Role
staying connected to the School is,” says James. “I’ve spent a majority of my professional life at HBS, and I’ve seen firsthand how committed our alumni are to the School and to helping it maintain its... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins General Foods 1981 Joins McKinsey & Company 1983 Joins E.S. Jacobs & Co. 1993 Becomes... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006
For Raphael Geismar, chairman and CEO of Stumec, a French supplier of tools and equipment to the railway industry, the attraction to HBS was part aspiration, part continuity. “In France and everywhere,”... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
the decision to deepen his commitment to serving others by enrolling in a seminary program at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. “I’d been thinking about it for a long time,” he reflects. “I had... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
but is part of another world in socioeconomic terms. Having traded in his power lunches for cafeteria duty, Pechter was in for another revelation. “I wasn’t prepared for the leadership of a fantastic... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries which has committed 60 percent of its portfolio to sub-Saharan Africa. Fynn asked the panelists why they’re investing and building businesses in Africa; why... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Denise Dupré are deeply committed to the creation of innovative programs for students who are driven to create, lead, and grow companies... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
Lee's ability to grow the business is matched by her commitment to her employees. She has 19 direct reports, and the average tenure of this inner circle is 15 years. What keeps people at SHI is Lee's belief... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
enough.” For Mike and other penitents among Los Angeles’s 100,000 gang members, the decision to remove gang-related tattoos, or “tats,” shows a fundamental commitment to change — the necessary laser treatments are lengthy, expensive,... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
that. “Coming out of Covid, we wanted to put together a club that could rival any other club in any city in the world,” says Ayengar. “We committed to producing at least 12 to 16 high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
events will lure tourists to Singapore’s restaurants, hotels, and casinos. A primary barrier to ONE FC’s growth, according to Cui, is the difficulty of attracting and recruiting employees with the necessary levels View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Backing Harvard’s Work for Children
impressed me about the Center on the Developing Child is its emphasis on rapid testing of possible interventions and strategies, not unlike how a business approaches R&D,” Tichio explains. “Jack Shonkoff, who directs the center, is an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Tunnell recalls that “as a liberal arts undergrad, I wanted an education that drew ideas from a variety of disciplines, people, and perspectives.” Noting “it wasn’t easy to jump between schools” during his time at Harvard, Tunnell says he... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
assumed that today was my last day here and that I had to earn the right to be invited back to work tomorrow.” While work has always been important to him, Brennan’s commitment to his family has guided his time outside View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He... View Details
Keywords: April White