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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
high-school girl in New Jersey figured that out. When Jordana Confino heard about Mukhtar, she was moved to action. With a friend, she started a club, Girls Learn International. They attended a United Nations conference on women and girls... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
"cross-pollination"- whether between industries or between species - tends to make people nervous. Several days before the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) annual conference convened this past March in Boston, opponents held... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
As a second-year student, Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) worked with Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) As a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
large-scale conference center, a performance space, and an intimate community forum where HBS can harness the energy and creativity of the thousands of students, faculty, alumni, and leaders who will convene there each year. The building... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS
financial services organization to one of the country's most successful investment banking firms. Chalsty plans to be in attendance at the March Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town. He will serve on a panel led by HBS professor André... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
medium, and large clubs and that are sustainable for the long term. In addition to these committees, ad hoc groups are undertaking important tasks. In particular, the Global Alumni Conferences committee is charged with keeping current... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
meeting at our conference and sitting in the green room, talking. There is a need for these folks to come together. As a nonprofit, we can pull them together with objectivity.” Progress, says Lisle, doesn’t just mean offering cutting-edge... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
course and IMM use the CD-ROM case; and IMM includes a videoconferencing hookup to executives in Japan that enables students to ask questions of case protagonists in real time. Technology also spurred "The Future of Interactive Marketing," an international View Details
- 14 Apr 2010
- News
The First African-American MBAs at HBS
was, already researched and summarized in a booklet published by the Bert King Foundation in 2008 called Making a Difference: Profiles of the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Alumni Achievement Award Recipients. To quote from the booklet:... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
has worked with groups like Credit Suisse to convene an invitation-only conference of investors in order to identify investable, repeatable, scalable and, therefore, financeable projects. Next up for Coady is an effort—with a working name... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
the second?" Johnson shared this and other tales of "active patience" with an audience of some six hundred HBS alumni at the 1998 HBS Global Alumni Conference held in Chicago June 16-19. A lifelong entrepreneur and philanthropist, the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
photo by Ryan Donnell Last October, Gordon Medenica was in New York for an industry conference when the calls started coming in. As lead director of Mega Millions, the multi-state consortium he’s been overseeing since 2017, Medenica was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
Meeting the Press: Dean Jay Light accompanied by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, answers reporters' questions I am honored by the selection and enthusiastic about the task ahead,” Jay Light said at an April 24 press conference with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
of globalization continues today. Business Solutions for the Global Poor edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton (Jossey-Bass Publishers) This book, edited by HBS professors and associates, presents the papers read at HBS’s 2005... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
orthopedic and trauma surgery. He continues to serve as chairman. In recognition of his career, the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association presented Wyss with the Beatrice D. Ellerin Alumni Achievement Award at its annual conference in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
initiative has continued to grow and flourish, developing and employing leading-edge technologies as part of the School's award-winning intranet. Of particular relevance to alumni, our "Webcast" of this year's Global Alumni Conference in... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
philanthropy, organized by Professor William Sahlman. He and Armour have also attended several conferences on the HBS campus devoted to nonprofits working to fight specific diseases. Attendees come away with new ideas, information, and a... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
(Above: photo by Rick Pryce) Bill Tai (MBA 1987) is as renowned for his devotion to kiteboarding as for his savvy investments. Ten years ago, the “Kite VC,” as he is known in Silicon Valley, married his two passions with the debut of ACTAI, an invitation-only View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
Powell observed. "Through our network of contacts, we assembled an extraordinary group of business and community leaders who, in light of events that were still unfolding, spoke from the heart to inspire as well as inform us." Honorary View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program will build upon students’ existing biotech and life sciences knowledge and equip them with the latest business and scientific insights. The first cohort will start in August 2020. The joint degree View Details
Keywords: Susan Young