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- 01 Dec 2014
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Feedback
Our inaugural Android and Kindle editions debuted in September, joining the iPad edition in our tablet offerings. For details on downloading these, visit alumni.hbs.edu/tablet Afghanistan’s Hope and Light Re: A call for change A wonderful... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
recently moved into its eight-story home on West 110th Street, the room already had an air of timelessness. The wood-paneled walls were lined with portraits of great American adventurers and the trophies they had brought back from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
just on Japanese orders, particularly now when everyone’s orders are contracting. What are your chief concerns about how the Treasury Department under former Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) chose to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Social and Environmental Stewardship, the report praised HBS as a leader in fostering social awareness, incorporating social concerns into coursework and projects, and supporting student activities and faculty research that influence both... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
correctly triage calls over to a clinician on site,” she explains. “That had a big impact on improving protocols to ensure that mental health specialists are available to assist when calls come in,” Mendu... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
(Palgrave Macmillan) make clear, the blowout that killed 11 people and created an ecological miasma could have been prevented by any one of dozens of managers or executives speaking up about eight serious signs of trouble. Authors LaRue... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
subsidiaries of US firms is supposed to be taxed at the corporate rate of 35 percent. But the law provides a huge loophole that allows companies to sidestep paying any tax on foreign profits as long as the money stays outside the US.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
compliant? Do you know which spreadsheets you put post-2000 dates into? Consider also the embedded code in peripherals that connect you to your network - one noncompliant machine could bring down thousands. Large organizations have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Code Breakers
recent decades, the number of women in tech jobs remains far lower. And the figures for women in leadership roles still hover around a far-from-equal 25 percent. Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in STEM education and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth."... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
South Africa, with its rich mineral resources, strong economy, and recently lifted trade barriers, is playing a critical role in helping sub-Saharan Africa boost its economic status. The evolution of this important country, current reform efforts, and issues View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, there were many heroic and extensive efforts to rebuild this iconic urban area in New York City. Political accomplishments, economic recovery, and community rehabilitation were urgent and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has just completed its winter meeting on campus, the second of three such gatherings we have each year. While January in Boston might not be everyone's idea of a good time, I can assure you... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
what many don't know is that playing the Hollywood executive is only one of Horn's roles. He's also a dedicated environmentalist and an avid collector of art. Horn is visibly passionate about his work with numerous environmental... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
At Soldiers Field, Small indeed found the tools she had been looking for to advance her career - as well as a place where she could keep up her interest in family matters. An active member of the Women's Student Association, Small contributed significantly to the... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
Acing the SAT (ReganBooks), an in-depth look at 160 high-school students who scored 1600 on the SAT. What got you interested in SAT scores? The son of a friend from HBS scored 1600 and I wondered, Who is this guy? I’ve always been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
relationship banking and maintain that role as the trusted local advisor. What will it take to get us there? Regulation is one of the greatest concerns as we move into this next stage of innovation, but the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Oct 2018
- News
Bringing the Background into Focus
Édouard Manet, “La négresse (Portrait of Laure),” 1863. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turino Édouard Manet, “La négresse (Portrait of Laure),” 1863. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turino Denise Murrell (MBA 1980) spent the majority of her career View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Gillette prior to attending HBS, and is known for bringing a business-centric focus to the conservation movement. He credits a taste for entrepreneurship developed in b-school and a bit of luck for his change in career paths. In the late 1980s, he was collaborating... View Details