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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most successful business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
learning — typically supplies and field trips. Donors review the proposals online and choose to fund the project they like. DonorsChoose is unique among philanthropies in that every dollar goes to the chosen project. In response to an... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance but had always dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. In 2003, he recalls, “I made this leap of faith, that if I could find a View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
elements are added.” Both businesses require vision and a healthy appetite for risk. Another similarity is permits, budgets, and a cast of people who come together to work on a common project for two or three years. Attracting a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
is a management consultant on projects for public- and private-sector clients across Africa, especially in agriculture, health care, and policy. He was based in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2006 to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many small bets is playing it safe.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
management knowledge fueled revenue growth, more than half of which came from two market-sensitive units — Executive Education and Harvard Business School Publishing. Both units have rebounded strongly from the recession four years ago.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
California Research Center Marks Fifth Year
subsequent offices in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Tokyo. Since its inception in 1997, the CRC has produced 109 cases and 29 additional teaching materials. It has also worked on a variety of research projects and often acts as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report
How does HBS manage its business? For alumni interested in the financial operations of the School, HBS has published its first-ever financial report. The 42-page document provides an overview of how the School View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
in the country. QE Solar totaled almost $1 million in revenue in 2014—double what it made the previous year—and projects $2 million in revenue in 2015. The company has taken no money from outside investors. QE Solar has 20 clients, all of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
exploration has involved meetings with forty HBS faculty members involved in a wide variety of research endeavors. "If Harvard Business School only knew what Harvard Business School knows," Quelch observes with a wry smile. "There is so much going on at this place — so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on housing and infrastructure View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
conceived the ambitious online oral history archive together with Chilean shipping entrepreneur Sven von Appen (AMP 76, 1977). The project is building an evidence base for emerging markets by documenting the personal experience of top... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
When Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) became the executive director of the Safe Passage Project in 2016, his mandate was to expand the organization. Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
leaders established a board that included McKinsey managing partner Rajat K. Gupta (MBA '73), whose firm provided a pro bono study of the issue. "When they realized the extent of our experience in such matters," Cavanagh says, "they asked... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
leaders, averages 14 projects a year with between 35 and 50 alumni volunteers. While the pandemic changed the way things were done, it didn’t stop the work. “We were able to have more interaction with our clients via Zoom, and in some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called TechnoServe. At TechnoServe, Lu worked... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
from the Class of 1977 interviewed for this article, Fox came to the restaurant industry by an indirect path, but now finds himself completely immersed in its unique complexities and rewards. The National Restaurant Association projects... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia