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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
feel very proud of their work." For Horn, these social and cultural activities help him keep a sense of perspective in the mercurial movie business. For Horn, these social and cultural activities help him... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
than ever. The Bulletin spoke to a sampling of alumni to get a view from the factory floor of how they plan to meet the challenges ahead. While the companies vary in size and make a diverse range of products, these owners, chairmen, and CEOs present a snapshot of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
“EARTH is at least as much about entrepreneurship as it is about agriculture.” From Papayas to Partnerships Along with courses and activities that build students’ technical and scientific knowledge, develop ethical values, and inspire... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate change commission, the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
her Wall Street funds wisely, Reade is much better off than most farmers in the area. Presently, she’s working on a book with a fellow organic farmer who also has a business background. Tentatively titled “From the Stock Market to the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
a wide variety of other activities as well. He chairs the boards of two institutions with worldwide reputations—the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Cleveland Institute of Music. And to help the city's minority businesses, he created a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
economy. Yet while annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $35 billion in 1999, numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. In their recent... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
waste, and have significantly lower rates of waste than the national average.” Kendall says the foundation’s multi-year, $485,000 grant to the university has helped it develop new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
efforts, serve as a sounding board, and share best practices. We also hope that in addition to providing their advice and expertise, alumni will want to support the REP. While the School has committed $25 million over 10 years to the effort, alumni who contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two funds with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
what you have done?" Williams asked. "No," admitted Tracy. "I'm going to change that," he said. In its first few years, the fund concentrated on raising money to support research, even hiring a research director to keep tabs on their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
back to the mainland. “Our classroom is a 204-acre island with two salt marshes, a fresh water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests.” Since 2005, Pearson has spearheaded an $8.3 million capital campaign to fund infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
the MBA Program, and John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), who helped launch the School's Social Enterprise Initiative, provided substantial guidance and support. (Both now serve on O'Neill's school board.) Then came a frustrating struggle to establish a permanent site ("We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy. One analysis showed that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
indefinite deferral under the current system. This proposal would raise revenues from corporate activities in jurisdictions with no or low taxes, while encouraging American corporations to repatriate their foreign profits at... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom line impact View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
diagnosing whether a company is trapped in active inertia, selecting the right commitment, giving it traction, and avoiding mistakes that commonly derail transformation efforts. Sull maintains that inaction is rarely the cause of an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with View Details