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- 01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
state resources,” he says. “I saw an unbelievable group of people trying to provide kids with a quality education.” A longtime supporter of education, Pechter had given time and money to scholarship funds in his Wall Street days, but he... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Three dollars in cash, six changes of clothing, five bottles of rum, and a box of cigars. These were the items that belonged to 12-year-old Carlos Saladrigas when he arrived in Miami in 1961. His parents chose the risk of sending their only child to the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
Extension Field Station in Lake Placid, New York. “Mike was already working with grants from the state of New York to expand its maple industry,” Turner explains. “Senator Chuck Schumer was among those who believed this was the only... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
globe. The firm regularly receives awards and accolades—including partner of the year from Dell, Microsoft, and VMware—and Lee was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2012. In a field generally dominated by men, SHI is the largest minority- and... View Details
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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
some business skills, but more importantly, I learned about people,” he says of his time at HBS. With his new MBA, Nelson joined Narragansett, one of the few firms in the burgeoning industry—and the only one in his home state of Rhode... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
efforts, business leadership in the United States and around the world will be strengthened." Moving HBS in a focused direction through the process of evaluation is a great advantage. The committee,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
many Plains tribes between 1858 and 1870 were nearly or entirely self-reliant through the sale of excess corn, until the United States government partitioned the land and established reservations. An... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
smart guys, whose opinions on the state of the world are noteworthy — but mainly because I am hoping to get each of them, and all those in front of us in Aldrich 112, to give me $28,500 for the Democratic National Committee, by whom I... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
hospital in his community. “Education is important: The United States is still the world leader in business education—and Harvard Business School is the leader of the leaders.” Matthews, who served as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
understood wasn’t sustainable. Should they build their life in the United States or Egypt? Meditation is one of Enan’s morning habits; another is free writing in her journal. At the time, she wrote a lot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
James Has New Role
(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Ralph James (MBA 1982), who previously headed Executive Education at HBS, became executive director of External Relations in July. In his new role, James is responsible for development and alumni relations. “As an HBS... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
technology and operations management this year. "Then I learned that if I went to college in the United States, I could have both academics and athletics." Ton applied to colleges based on their rankings in Volleyball magazine. In 1993,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Don’t Mess with His Texas
WATERS: Betting the ranch on posterity. Lost Maples State Natural Area in the Hill Country of Texas is noted for its beautiful limestone canyons and native bigtooth maple trees. The park recently grew by 700 acres thanks to Lou Waters... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
Allard: a three-year ascent to $240 million in revenues. Photo Courtesy Marquis Jet Marquis Jet may be flying high today, but just three years ago it was far from clear that the New York–based company’s innovative approach to private-jet travel would ever get off the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give up and call it a career. MacDonald tossed off lines like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
FAMILY PORTRAIT: John and Aileen Crowley with Megan, John Jr., and Patrick. When John Crowley (MBA ’97) flew to Portland, Oregon, last spring to watch the filming of a movie about his life, what he saw was “beyond surreal.” The actors’ trailers all sported the full... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
it's a lot easier to turn people off than turn them on.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “I'm very optimistic about the future, particularly for the United States. Events since 1989 - the fall of the Berlin Wall, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
receiving his BA in 1949. Two years later, he earned a doctorate in economics from Ohio State University. Levitt is survived by his wife of 58 years, the former Joan Levy, four children, and six grandchildren, as well as two sisters. To... View Details