Harvard College - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall. One major opportunity, he says, resides on the region’s View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

invest outside the country and immigration rates to rise. Is the immigration trend related to the growing number of Western-educated Chinese? Over 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in various US colleges and universities last year.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)

Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. As a freshman at the Air Force Academy, if you are asked a question you have five responses. It’s “Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir. Sir, I will find out. Sir, I do not understand.” That’s it. Those... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying and enjoyable for me at this stage of my life." When... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2020
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Wide Angle

You're senior associate dean of Harvard Business School Online and the former president of Barnard College. What lessons can educational institutions take from the economic impact of the pandemic? I suspect that this moment is going to be... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

become an independent self-employed income earner. Also examined is how education for a career is becoming more important than ever, but it may not necessarily be a college degree. Why and how higher education is having to evolve as a... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

than 300 oil rigs, Kovatch became an engineer recruiter in North America for Schlumberger, visiting more than 40 colleges and universities a year. “I loved the adventure, telling the stories from the oil patch and being the face of the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 1998
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Faculty Retirements

interface with the securities markets, he is the coauthor or editor of seven books, including Wall Street and Regulation; Managing Financial Institutions; and Islamic Law and Finance. He has written numerous working papers and articles in journals such as the View Details

01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

academic and practice leaders, and advance medicine through excellence in biomedical research. A native of Malden, Massachusetts, and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Slavin knows exactly when he first became interested in... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

whom you hire and whom you fire—and when. It will be crucial whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate executive, investment banker, or consultant." CURRENT READING Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner When Judy Haberkorn graduated from Briarcliff... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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HAA Honors HBS Alumni

Three HBS alumni were among six individuals recognized in September by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) for outstanding service to the University. Topping the 2012 HAA Awards list was F. Gorham Brigham (MBA 1939), who has served as... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Download James profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page 1942 Born, Sandusky, Ohio 1964 Earns BA, Economics, Harvard College 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2008
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The Next Chapter

OLSON: After publishing, turning over a new leaf. Former Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson (MBA ’76) has donned a new hat and will begin teaching corporate strategy at HBS next month. Olson is no stranger to Harvard, having attended View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Retail Trade

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1977 A.B., Visual Studies (Film) LESSONS FROM HBS “Having seen that ninety bright minds in an... View Details

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012).... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Sep 2008
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HBS Olympians

Albertville, France—but I was sure there were more. Who were they? When I saw a list of about 200 Harvard College Olympians, my zeal to compile a list of HBS Olympians was awakened. I turned to the marvelous... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

25 Jul 2024
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Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success

date, about 150 HBS alumni mentors have helped more than 1,500 mentees develop skills like networking, entrepreneurial thinking and defining personal success. For six months of their penultimate college year, cohorts of six students meet... View Details