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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
This consciousness-raising book asks business students, who are usually risk-averse, to look at risk in a new way. It argues that choices they think are “safe” (lucrative jobs taken only for financial gain, service to others deferred... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
School, which she launched 2016 with physician and educator Priscilla Chan. “So we asked, what could we do if we started over?” Liu, who attended public school in Washington, DC, recognized from an early age that the country’s school... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
HBS alums Greg Avis (Summit Partners, MBA 1984), Chad Keck (Needham & Co., MBA 1976), Tom Volpe (Prudential Volpe, MBA 1976), and Tony Blenk (Everen Securities, MBA 1976), Crane led the company in acquiring 13 companies, raised four rounds of venture capital, and took... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
heading a services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions to over 150 Fortune 500 clients. With 28,000 employees located in 54 countries, Satyam, founded in 1987, had revenues of $1 million when it went View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
company, last fall Robinson joined PRT, a global firm that provides information technology solutions and services to Fortune 500 companies. He stepped in to help lead PRT's initial public offering just after... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Alvarez-Bjelland to Receive Harvard Medal
to lead the HAA,” the Gazette article notes, “Alvarez-Bjelland focused on the theme of ‘Harvard Serves’ during her tenure as president, spearheading various public service initiatives including a Global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
President Obama, explained Professor David Gergen, director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and one of four members of an afternoon keynote panel. While social enterprise organizations once viewed... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
smoothly. I'm very excited about how technology will be applied in other areas — genetics, service businesses, health, education, and so forth. How job has changed in last five years I do a lot more coaching. The more senior you get, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
educational programs and from around the world. In any given year, about 5 percent of HBS MBA students are military—active duty, reservist, or veteran. The relationship between the military and Harvard University is often viewed by the View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
which they plan to make available to the public in Q1 2021. Instead of administering the ketamine intravenously, they are experimenting with a lozenge that can be taken orally. Zapolin has also been taking meetings with corporate... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
fight corruption. “These citizen-driven initiatives are raising public awareness as never before and demand that CEOs pay attention,” he says. In Russia, thousands of anonymous contributors identify corrupt government procurement... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
people every year, is not a high priority for either the public or pharmaceutical companies. To stimulate novel treatment ideas and to raise the venture funding needed to get those ideas to market, he launched two organizations. One is... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in performance when those states... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
particular, the diversity of the population CWE serves: About half of last year’s sixteen hundred clients were low-income individuals. The variety of the programs and services offered by CWE reflects the diversity of its clients. Those at... View Details
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
primarily for public schools serving low-income families. It has created an online marketplace connecting teachers with “citizen philanthropists,” who buy supplies or services the schools can’t afford. At... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
the video, Weiss explains how his service to the City of Boston became the basis for a new HBS course. “The late Mayor Menino, my boss, was fond of saying that ‘the government is about helping people.’ That's what we did for four years. I... View Details