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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
preparing to realize that dream. After attending Brigham Young University on a baseball scholarship and serving as a missionary in Kiev, Ukraine, Whitney went to work at Highland Capital Partners in order to strengthen his HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
people's needs." Checchi cites his experience with struggling Northwest Airlines, which he and business partner Gary Wilson purchased in 1989, as the equal of any public-sector challenge. With multiple public and private constituencies,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the company's Boston office and take a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
officer. It is based at LabCentral, an incubator space in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, which is also an operating partner for the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab. The company is currently in the process of raising a seed round to double the size... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
courses without leaving their home, school, or office." In recent years, the Lemann Foundation has partnered with Khan Academy—founded by Sal Khan (MBA 2003)—to translate its free online educational videos into Portuguese for use in... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
with Bradley is his wife, Katherine. During their 30 years of marriage, the Bradleys have raised three sons, partnered to support public education in Washington, spent summers building a family treehouse, and regularly welcomed visitors... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
says Frank Yang (MBA 2006), a partner at ADL Ventures, a firm that supports innovation in infrastructure companies through business development consulting, funding, and mentorship. Yang is ADL’s point person in the Advanced Building... 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
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Michael F. Cronin
young Michael and his four siblings. Cronin soon went to work, too, as a Boston Herald paperboy, the first of innumerable jobs on a résumé that would eventually top out with his current position: cofounder and managing partner of Weston... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
joining the family business, but had no idea that I'd be asked to assume responsibility for the overall business. When I went off to school, early on, the business was an industrial feeding business with lots of these trucks that went around to factories. The View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
a special limited partner at Greylock, began his career working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara (MBA 1939) in the 1960s. That experience left him with a deep appreciation for those in public service and for... View Details
- 15 Sep 2017
- News
Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)
operations in Brazil and Mexico and opened new offices in Peru, Columbia, and Chile. He is now a partner in the Advisory Group at PJT Partners. When making philanthropic choices, Harland and his wife, Ashley Leeds, consider what matters... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
to be a portfolio manager at Morgan.” Proudest moment: “July 17, 1996, when my husband and I got remarried after having been divorced since 1990.” Carl Ferenbach Ill Managing Director Berkshire Partners LLC Boston, Massachusetts After his... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
after lackluster business performance for a number of years, we knew we needed to do things differently, we needed to take some bold action. So I'd say that was really the turning point from a cultural perspective, not just within the company, but with our... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
she had mustered. Local leaders, meanwhile, found in Dlodlo a partner who was willing to listen and who shared their vision for the future. Which was not at all what they were used to. Dlodlo’s plans for a six-floor, mixed-use building... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
expert in endocrinology who serves as a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford, and Stavropoulos is a partner at Threshold Ventures, an early-stage VC firm that spun out of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). The parents of three children,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
done at Godrej. (Earlier consultants, she notes, often operated as yes-men for her father.) They didn't disappoint: Vivek Gambhir (MBA 1997), the Bain partner who headed the project, notably challenged the status quo, and Nisa went on to... View Details