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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the challenge. When banks and other View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
It’s also about a movement of people away from jobs where they’re not sure they are innovating to jobs at startups where they can be entrepreneurial.” -Diane Hessan (MBA 1977), CEO, Startup Institute Daughters of employed mothers are more... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
community to rally support and aid for the victims of this tragic event. If you have a story or news to share, please email us at alumni_communications@hbs.edu. WHERE TO GIVE We offer the following suggestions of organizations for those wishing and able to provide... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
to do it. My choices were either put MLT on the shelf for a time, until I had more financial flexibility, or to take a shot at it. I wouldn’t say it got easier, once I started to get momentum, but it became more clear how much potential... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
carry out our mission.” Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has sponsored a Leadership Fellow almost every year of the program’s existence. “Any established institution runs a major risk of becoming staid, stodgy, complacent, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
regulation are essential to limit the harm, as well as the reputational and financial damage. But governance and regulation exist on pendulums that swing to and fro, and may overshoot in one direction and then in the other. One of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the norm for health care than the exception. They may not have ever taken a management course, despite the challenge of overseeing dozens of employees across a variety of functions. They’re responsible for their unit’s financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
holdings to financial institutions that directly support Black communities. Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann (MBA 1997) and the company’s director of recruiting, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), were recently featured... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
times are good, the numbers increase, a diversity officer may be appointed, and HR institutes sensitivity training. Denmark West (MBA 1998), an advisor, investor, and founding partner of Connectivity Ventures, points to the early 2000s as... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seen around the world,” Leger observes. Following graduation, she spent two years as a junior professional associate at the World Bank, working with government and NGO representatives internationally. “I eventually came to the conclusion that, though these traditional... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
process. Charismatic pioneers of the healthy building movement who have paired up to combine the cutting-edge science of Harvard’s School of Public Health with the financial know-how of HBS, Joseph Allen and John Macomber lay out the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new ways of grounding to sustain us... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
when it could mean the end of his business as he knows it. “One of the biggest challenges is these institutional changes,” he says. “It’s going to take time.” Some days, the time required to create real change wears on Mawilmada. Yet... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks performing a View Details