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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
Alumni Conference, Loughran is already looking forward to being part of the planning team required to put together a successful event. And if preparing for the conference is anything like his tenure as club president, he expects the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
point of view, it will create a new paradigm,” said Gupta. Radio frequency ID tags, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and online gaming were among the other topics covered. The conference, which drew over 500 attendees, was organized by a team of 75 student... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
A young currency trader knocks politely on a conference room door at Kingdon Capital Management Corp. (KCMC), a Manhattan-based hedge fund. Her boss, KCMC's founder and president Mark Kingdon, invites her in with a friendly nod. "The... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
their time on the conference circuit, selling to the wrong audience. At the end of the day, I was only as good as the next woman in Indiana deciding if she wanted to play FarmVille or not. Bill Campbell is the most gifted coach I’ve ever... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
be nice if there was some way to keep it going.” The club agreed and has developed a half-day conference for forty Philadelphia-area nonprofit leaders. At the first event, set for October, HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, former... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
leadership, BlackRock’s Retirement Group, which manages $1.3 trillion in retirement assets for some 35 million Americans, has taken steps to address these issues. In 2020 they held the BlackRock Savings Summit, a virtual retirement View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) (Courtesy S’Well Bottle) Ollie Wilson (MBA 2017) (Courtesy Ollie Wilson) Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of S’well reusable water bottles, beloved by everyone from the Kardashians to TED Conference... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 Oct 2018
- News
Advancing Opportunities for Others
person of color, when I am invited to a broad industry conference, you can count the number of people of color in the room. So we put together this conference and it has been oversubscribed every year that we've done it. And it's the most... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
Rivkin and faculty colleagues Allen Grossman, Kevin Sharer, and Michael Porter partnered with the Boston Consulting Group and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research how business could best help improve America's education system. After a November View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
companies by you know what they named their conference rooms. We have friends and peers who have started other companies that have conference rooms named things like the Boom Boom Room, and things that you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
will be replaced by Klarman Hall, a state-of-the-art convening center expected to open in 2018. Anchoring the southern edge of the green next to Spangler, Klarman will provide enhanced space and increased capacity for academic conferences... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
teenager, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) tried to join the Peace Corps upon graduating from high school, only to be rejected because of her age. Some years later, that rejection spurred Falik to develop an idea that in 2008 won the Pitch for Change competition, a part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
HBS professor Carl Kester, senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program. Participants praised the program during an April 8 news conference held at the conclusion of the first module. “I’ve seen a lot of players who had trouble... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
alumni-focused conferences bringing together key businesspeople to talk about best practices and promising business models. A conference on water, for example, is slated for next spring. We’re also hoping to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the fifth annual Alumni Healthcare... 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 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on executing strategy in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
proactively, not reactively. I can’t stop. Then a mom from the group suggested setting up a conference call to figure out our next steps. From there, we formed a steering committee, and I drafted a mission statement and a long-term... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
follows children and their families from infancy into college). More recently, she organized a two-day conference for some 1,400 attendees who gathered to learn how the HCZ model works, discuss common obstacles and strategies, and hear... View Details