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- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
and stewardship of those programs. During dinner, Neil Ashe (MBA 1996), Chairman and CEO of Acuity Brands, presented the club’s Social Impact Award to Dean Crowe, Founder of the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research. In 2014,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Systems and Control, Management Information Systems, Foundations of Computer Systems, Management of Natural Resources, and Management of Nonprofit Organizations. He also taught the required MBA courses Production and Operations Management... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
out brochures himself. With the financial backing of the Levi Strauss Foundation (made up mostly of Haas family members) and with additional resources, management advice, and advocacy support coming from the company, each Project Change... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
variety of philanthropists, including the foundation started by the late John Walton—to establish a funding operation in Tennessee. The Fund supports CMOs whose schools have performed well on a broad range of metrics, including statewide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
the Coosawattee Foundation had grown to become one of the largest archaeological education organizations in the United States. He told Shaw he would talk but wouldn’t be able to take on whatever he was pitching. “Ten minutes into the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Scott Royster (MBA 1992) believes higher education has the power to transform Africa if only its students have access to it. “Statistics from around the world show that individuals who are able to obtain a university degree earn higher lifetime incomes that those who... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of HBS alumni and faculty, and by the School itself as an institution. Excerpts from the book follow. The Big Bang Fifty years ago, Kiechel writes, corporate strategy did not even exist as a concept, let alone as the foundational element... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
be ahead than behind. It's pretty primitive, I think. That's part of my nature. Dan: I want to talk about a couple foundational moments at Blackstone that you detail in the book. Right around 1989, when you invested in Edgcomb. Can you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
challenges in creative ways: "The Robin Hood Foundation" (with Catherine Ross). Created by hedge fund and investment managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations in New York City. As the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
“We need to be educating students to work in complex environments with people of different races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and political views to make the most of these differences.” —JAN HAMMOND SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN “We need to be educating students to work... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
economic risks. That financial acumen produced results that made it possible for him to act on his real passion. In 1998, he founded the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, a role that often draws on one of his HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
sum total of my work experience was two summer internships. It was a very steep learning curve, but I persevered. HBS gave me an invaluable foundation to build my career. Before joining eBay, you bounced around a lot. Why? In part because... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA’s reach broadened when the Gates Foundation continued its support by awarding the group a $2.99 million grant to develop agricultural diagnostics for rural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
world and bring it back to our classrooms in the form of cases and other research,” he says. “That strategy has served us well and will remain the foundation of our global efforts.” The investment has paid dividends. While international... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
him through life—as an undergraduate at Texas A&M, a graduate student at Harvard, and a once-young entrepreneur himself. As he and Dell created the foundation of what would become one of the most successful companies in the world, Walker... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Austin, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, as the main curriculum anchor for the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. In ESS, case studies on nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid entities are the foundation for... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
become the largest philanthropy on climate and energy in Europe-- the European Climate Foundation-- I was happy to trade in my role as a parliamentary representative for a foundation CEO. Morrell: That is, again, another new transition... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in McHenry, Illinois. “I view that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world... View Details