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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
leaders in organizational studies who have crafted the discourse on the intersections of race, work, and leadership. The cross-disciplinary exchange centered on learning about and from the black experience. The symposium enhanced community among scholars who often feel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
HBS is committed to developing future leaders equipped with the cultural intelligence and skills required to operate in today’s globalized world. Key to this effort is creating opportunities for members of the School’s increasingly... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
attracting a new generation of talented and committed innovators seeking to combine new approaches to achieving social returns. Social enterprise and impact investing, in short, look like the wave of the future.” Palandjian’s goal is to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
January 4, 2010) “In transforming a home into just another investment, we have created a class of homeowners who treat their commitment to their homes much as they would treat any bad investment.” — HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas writing... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
know each other. “We start by asking each participant, ‘what’s on your mind?’ The point is to get to those things we’re wrestling with, and get help. It could be about professional life, running a company, writing a book, or family issues.” For the HBS Club of Dallas,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
skills and perspectives he had acquired during his extended hiatus. Located just a mile from Boston and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, Thompson Island has been committed to disadvantaged youth since 1833, when a group of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
who cofounded the first aerial tramway in Costa Rica’s rainforest and made a quixotic bid in 2008 for US Congress. He is committed to helping the country attain a 30 percent reliance on renewable energy, with Clean Line Energy playing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
opportunities." The key to any new venture, Wendell explains, is usually the quality of the people driving it. In 1982 Wendell cofounded Sierra Ventures with what then felt to him like a huge sum: $16 million. Today Sierra has almost a half billion dollars in View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
Disconnect. Rebalance. Recharge. “We get real notes from real people who stay in our real houses,” he says, describing a recent message from a woman who thanked Getaway for helping put her marriage back on track. “That kind of feedback has made us even more View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Catherine E. Kuehn Price, MBA 1986 & Malcolm K. Price, MBA 1987
first-year students are spending time abroad, and the increased integration with other areas of Harvard really recognizes the importance of interdisciplinary learning. I wish I could go back again as a student!” Malcolm views the couple’s gift, through a View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
volunteer in Africa before attending HBS; thinking back to that time made him want to do "something useful and outrageous" once again. Particularly concerned about violence among young people, Seder decided that he wanted to "make a View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
unable to find a museum job and was turned down for multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, was sent a copy of her dissertation and described being “flabbergasted” that she had not found work. He immediately View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
broadly through Harvard Business Review, the online research forum HBS Working Knowledge, the annual “HBS Gender and Work Symposium,” academic journals, and national media. The Gender Initiative is illustrative of the School’s commitment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Fellowships Open Doors
Penny and Bill George (MBA ’66), HBS senior lecturer and former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, talked of their commitment to helping students from developing countries. They pose with three fellowship recipients they sponsor: Ecaterina... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
improvement goals for the coming year. In recent years, HBS, with its expertise in leadership and management issues, has become more and more committed to education reform. Stig Leschly’s MBA course, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
regarded for its distinctive investment philosophy as well as its bottom-line results, the firm has raised and managed over $4.8 billion of committed capital in its eighteen-year history. Its investments in some forty companies —... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Going public with philanthropy
Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983) believes that philanthropy is one of America’s great traditions. He went public with his commitment to give away much of his wealth to counteract negative perceptions of business leaders’ financial success.... View Details
- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
pandemic. During the current crisis, CPD Managing Director Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) notes, most larger companies are honoring their internship commitments to first-year students, but many smaller firms and startups either need to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
how over the next thirty years the world is going to go through a bottleneck because of population and consumption growth. If we don’t make commitments now to conserve endangered places, they won’t be here thirty years from now. But... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson