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- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
HBS alumni and students are among the names topping two major lists of up-and-comers in the worlds of retail, finance, health, nonprofits, and more that were released this week. Forbes has just published its annual “30 Under 30” list,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled it to new heights. Even then,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
strengthen the whole class," says Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program Chair Steven C. Wheelwright. In addition, a team of MBA staff, faculty, and students has begun to expand the program's marketing outreach. The aim, says Wheelwright,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
members can meet and connect, piloted a drop-in tutoring program leading up to midterm exams, and presents guest speakers. For example, in October 2022, Gorick Ng (MBA 2018) shared insights from his experience as a first-generation View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
“I believed a social enterprise company could provide free education to everybody profitably, so that it would be sustainable and scalable.” For Feerick, the pandemic has highlighted the urgency of building an alternative to the traditional View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Rebecca Henderson. Henderson’s research explores how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. Through interactive case studies, students learn how businesses can... View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
and infrastructure, and closing America’s gap in preparing workers for jobs requiring “middle skills”—that is, competencies beyond a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
inversion of Before the 1950s, the majority of graduates who became teachers were in the top quartile of their college classes. And today, we're seeing that the majority are in the bottom half and sometimes even in the bottom quartile of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
had founded “about an hour or two after Prohibition ended, so I’m told,” Cohen says with a smile. After graduating from Smith College in 1964, she spent a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education before enrolling at HBS, much to her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
parents. The Robert L. Ryan Fellowship has supported 18 students since Ryan launched the fellowship in 2004. Providing funding for future generations of MBA students is a fitting way for Ryan to recognize... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
services. The need is daunting. “There are nearly 4 million 18- to 24-year-olds out of work who don’t have more than a high-school degree,” explains Chertavian. Nearly 500 students now attend the full-time Year Up program while earning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
woes. But the improbably massive, Gothic-style building on a hilltop at 3220 The Alameda rises far above its gritty surroundings, as does the reputation of the school it houses. In an urban school system that has struggled for decades, Baltimore City View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
always the risk of embarrassment: Maybe no one would sign up. On the other hand... Sahlman knew for a fact that whenever one of his colleagues offered a course that focused on people in a deal-making context, students signed up in droves.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sofas around the warmth of the fireplace. Only 22 and a first-year student at HBS, Moore—Terry, to his fellow mountaineers—was not yet a member of this illustrious society. That honor was reserved for those who had “added to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
he founded in Sanliurfa. One of Turkey’s most successful business leaders and philanthropists, Hüsnü Özyeğin is a self-made man. After working his way through college and business school — including running the Gallows Grill in Gallatin... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
early age. What impact has that had on your lifestyle? Nothing I’ve done after selling my first company has had much of an impact on my lifestyle. That gave me enough money to buy the kind of house I wanted and set aside enough for my kids’ View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
mid-1990s, Larry Fondation, a community organizer in South Central Los Angeles and Tufano's Harvard College roommate, alerted Tufano to the plight of low-income wage earners who traditionally have been left out of the loop when it comes... View Details