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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
fluent Japanese. Commenting on the meeting in the Times of India (August 22, 2000), Kulkarni said, "India is looking for a strategy that will help it achieve rapid economic growth — qualitatively in terms of upgrading its economy and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
Real estate broker Sharon Enloe Baum (MBA ’65) cruises the streets of Manhattan in a chauffeured black Rolls-Royce that sports the license plate SOLD 1. Actually, in terms of co-ops and houses, she’s sold a lot more than one during her... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
United States's third-largest trading partner, and Washington has loaned Mexico billions to rescue its economy. In terms of Mexican population, Los Angeles is second only to Mexico City. On these two fronts alone, the next crisis in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
twenty-five million kids don't go to school. There are too many people dying due to lack of vaccines, and the world is showing an increasing inequity in terms of the distribution of assets and income. The rich are getting richer, and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
looking at other approaches that could make it more accessible to a broader range of the public. We also aim to get the balance right in terms of diversity by including some of the known luminaries of the food world as well as its rising... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
values: “Gen Z consumers expect the brands they support to take a stand, especially on social justice issues.” Build a more inclusive team. The Gen Z audience expects inclusivity—in terms of race but also in View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
comes to preparing for a disaster, what percentage of time should be spent on proactive vs. reactive activities? —Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) BEER: It’s difficult to break it down in terms of percentage, because it’s so dependent on the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jul 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
The philosophy of “Africapitalism” has guided Tony Elumelu’s (AMP 166, 2004) business career. The chairman of United Bank of Africa coined the term to describe the type of community-focused investments made by Heirs Holdings, where he is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Milestone for HBS Alumna
Alvarez-Bjelland For the first time, the president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is a woman MBA from Harvard Business School. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (AB ’76, MBA ’79), who took office last summer, will focus her one-year term... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Profiles from the Class of 2002
sky-high expectations at the turn of the millennium has been replaced by a climate of uncertainty marked by color-coded terrorism alerts, horrific Middle East violence, and the precipitous downfall of a seemingly indomitable corporate giant. In View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pharma Suits a Farm Gal
lessons. Whether rotating crops, breeding animals, or investing in equipment, “You spend a good deal of your time trying to plan forward in terms of timing and scheduling,” said Graham, who added that living on a farm “provides great... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the first View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
millions of years, she is breaking new ground in terms of innovations in museum research and financing. Name: T. rex Sue Named after: Sue Hendrickson, fossil hunter Age: 67 million years Discovered: Badlands of South Dakota, 1990 Price at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
March, the company announced $5.5 million in funding. COVID-aware: “Our business model is CapEx light; business owners pay on a commission basis for every meal the robot makes, which alleviates a lot of risk. And in terms of health and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
the payout rate—typically around 5 percent of the endowment’s prior year-end market value —that can be withdrawn and used to support activities in accordance with the donor’s intentions and the terms of each gift. A large majority of... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- News
Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia
leaders. He also interacted with HBS’s Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning to share case-method teaching strategies with business schools in Greater China. “The road I took to having an impact was to serve the faculty, in View Details