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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
research consortium, tapping a national team of top geneticists, imaging experts, molecular biologists, and clinicians headed by Rudy Tanzi, Ph.D., director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
described as a critical link to conserving the Crown of the Continent — a 10-million-acre natural region that encompasses Glacier National Park and provides refuge for some of the last grizzly bears, Canada lynx, and wolverines in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
health benefits, Herzlinger favors tax breaks. She proposes that Congress simply extend to all employees the current tax-exemption employers have for the purchase of employee health plans. Writing in the National Review, she explained how... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
will be deciding which of those markets to pursue." With more than half of the company's business outside the United States, DiCamillo sees tremendous potential abroad, especially for instant imaging, where infrastructure is not required.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
skills, and the host country’s needs. Why is Morocco so important? Morocco straddles the West and the Arab world and is a longtime ally of America — it was the very first nation to recognize our fledgling, newly independent View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation, as he put it, were sound? Upon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
indeed created a market for babies. Parents can choose the traits they want, clinics advertise for customers, and specialized providers are getting rich — it’s a $3 billion business in the United States alone. And that figure doesn’t... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the 1960s, he felt himself drawn toward nonprofit activities. Upon graduating from HBS, Lazarus took the advice of a classmate and joined the Peace Corps in Panama, where he worked to develop a business training and education program at a Catholic university. His... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
will be very different parts of China. Shanghai will be a Chinese city, while Hong Kong will be international." Another questioner, Donald Bongami Mkhwanazi (59th PMD), chairman of the National Empowerment Trust Investment Fund in Durban,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
high-pitched speaking voice, he made a powerful impression. I next encountered him in March 1944. I was chief of the Third Army’s Test and Inspection Section, and our unit had been ordered overseas. At his headquarters in an elegant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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John Read
first nine months of his tenure commuting from Minneapolis to Outward Bound’s Garrison, New York, headquarters, Read and his wife finally relocated to that scenic community in January. He now spends about half of his time fundraising, mostly to support View Details