activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks needed to make way for a deeper position in retail View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 Sep 2023
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Screen Time

have similarly shared their travel stories. Goetschel, who is active on the Zoom committee—along with Diogo Teixeira (MBA 1982), Deborah Pearce (MBA 1982), and Ivan Arrieta (MBA 1982)—says the monthly sessions have not only served to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

community involvement: Chiofaro's pro bono activity includes founding both the Boston Jobs Academy, an organization that prepares Boston residents for office jobs, and the Boston chapter of the Police Athletic League. For the future,... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

communities.” That realization prompted Bobo to leave his position as a principal at the Carlyle Group and in 2016 launch Project Destined (PD), a social impact vehicle that trains inner-city youth to be active partners in sourcing and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

While acknowledging that HBS is actively exploring the use of GenAI for teaching and learning, Weiss says, “I never want us to come across as naïve to the ethical, moral, and existential concerns about generative AI. What we’re doing is... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

transformed it into a multinational, $2 billion consumer products enterprise, part of which, Benckiser NV, went public in 1997. (The remainder of the company, including Coty Inc., is still privately held.) Harf has been active in cancer... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

best is yet to come for innovation at Harvard as Allston activates further. We couldn’t be more excited. Harvard Innovation Labs Located along Harvard’s evolving Western Avenue innovation corridor, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 May 2016
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Backing Harvard’s Work for Children

research that will lead directly to breakthrough outcomes in education and health for children living in poverty.” Tichio, who hosted an informational dinner at his Greenwich, Connecticut, home that introduced the center’s activities to... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

says. As a senior member of McKinsey, Daniel remains active both inside and outside the firm, serving as a resource to other partners and associates and adding new names to the list of nonprofits he wants to help. He also intends to spend... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

service at prom time. At Harvard College, where he starred in both football and baseball, he organized team meals and other activities at the Varsity Club. And at Harvard Business School, he started a housing agency to help entering... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

up poor in a single-parent home in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, such success could not have seemed within reach. After graduating from a vocational high school, Dunn went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1947, he joined the Marine Corps Reserves and... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

the life cycle of the company”—from proof of concept to platform and product development. It plans to focus first on creating oral versions of peptide hormone drugs used to treat rare endocrine and metabolic diseases. Although Goble is no longer a student at HBS, he is... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

about where Spire's at now. PP: Spire today runs the world's largest multipurpose constellation. We track every spot on Earth over 100 times a day. All of the world's maritime aviation and weather activity is tracked and predicted based... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Executive Education degrees and accreditations, and a range of sectors, demographics, and experiences. Board members are drawn from a pool of active alumni volunteers. The current board president is Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997). On... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

president. An active HBS faculty member from 1970 to 1989, Chandler not only conducted some of his most important research at the School, but he also nurtured a group of younger world-class business historians. With them, he created an... View Details

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

as the School’s first Goldman Sachs Fellow, and was elected copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU). “I had never taken an accounting or finance class before I went to HBS,” he notes. “The AASU study groups and community View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

every year since its inception, is the only firm of its kind in Brazil that has been awarded an MQ1 rating by Moody's. Jakurski, who serves as managing director, focuses on fixed income, equity, and currency trading in global markets and supervises all trading View Details