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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
wide array of issues, including revising business plans, scaling operations, marketing, finance, human resources, and more. “For HBS alumni, this is an opportunity to give back to the community by volunteering their time and expertise to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
severance package when her company, MediaOne, was bought by AT&T Broadband. "Frankly, having worked full-time except for two short maternity leaves -including moving, traveling, and working long hours -when someone offers you a View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
most developed region of Africa, broad and relevant insights into the challenges facing developing economies, a chance to meet and mingle with HBS faculty and fellow alumni, and an opportunity to explore the spectacular sights of Africa.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
In the course of an hour-long interview, Keith T. Clinkscales (MBA '90), president of Vibe magazine, drops close to fifty names. Those mentioned by this 35-year-old CEO of an enterprise that is considered "da bomb" (a high compliment)... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
2004): Hi, my name is Torarie Durden, HBS class of 2004. The worst job I ever had was with a small business credit card company run by an enigmatic CEO who was a gigantic control freak, but also always felt he had to be the smartest... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
America needs people to have more chances to advance in this economy. That is the American dream we all hope to be true and want to see come to fruition for as many individuals as possible.” By eliminating... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
studies (see sidebar). I recently had a chance to talk with Nohria about his formative years, the opportunities he sees ahead for the School, and his views on the role of business in society. What follows is an edited version of that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
earning their MBAs, almost half had broken away from a rapidly changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
have the chance to build their credit history other than the loan that they were being provided. So, it felt as if you needed to build infrastructure to actually help the village move up in their economic livelihoods and loans weren’t it.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
(government-run) system; or various elements borrowed from all of these. President Obama has said he wants to move gradually, beginning by insuring all children, and has expressed reservations about aspects of the Massachusetts model,... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. From a distance, the 2016 recipients of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award give the appearance of unmitigated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an expert on finance,” had his View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
DOWNING: In one of the world’s poorest countries, the rain forest is key. At A Glance Total Area: 111,369 sq. km. Population: 3,441,790 Per Capita GDP: $500 All maps by Robert Littleford; Country Data: Cia World Factbook Thomas Downing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
Two days after his Nobel Prize was announced, Professor Merton spoke with Bulletin editor Deborah Blagg in his Morgan Hall office, where imposing stacks of scholarly journals had been displaced temporarily by a garland of colorful... View Details