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01 Dec 2010
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HBS Contributors Report

The HBS Contributors Report was mailed to some 13,000 donors in November and reflects all new gifts, pledges, and planned gifts received during fiscal year 2010, ending last June 30. Total commitments exceeded $130 million. Alumni gifts provide approximately... View Details

Keywords: meta

01 Dec 2020
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In the Zone

When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

17 Mar 2017
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Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

engaged network was—and continues to be—a big part of the HBS experience for me,” she says. Hawthorne remembers many HBS moments that continue to have an impact on her life. One was a case discussion a View Details

01 Dec 2010
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A Smooth Stretch

explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for... View Details

Keywords: Yoga; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

07 Aug 2018
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DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

Above: Rickards on Jamaica’s sense of community: “It’s good to live in a place where the people are expressive and vibrant.” (photo by Marina Burnel) I had a strong sense when I was at HBS that the skills I learned there would have a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

and leading to segmentation of the notes in 1991. Thus, for the past eight years, three versions of the notes have been published and sent to the appropriate classes. View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank... View Details

16 Nov 2020
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Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results

Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,... View Details

10 May 2023
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Alumna Snags an Emmy

Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Kathryn Smith Cochrane’s (MBA 2016) recent Emmy award win didn’t have the anticipatory stress View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

market share. In all her endeavors, Dubinsky has compiled an extraordinary record by introducing practical applications of cutting-edge technology into our daily lives. Growing up in a small town in... View Details

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

featured speakers Clause Jensen, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and information technology author and thought leader Dan Roberts, CEO and President... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)

transparent and accountable. Our theory of change is time-proven: One, education matters to your opportunities in life. Two, early education is determinative. Three, media and technology can deliver... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 May 2019
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Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991

achievement that many Americans associate with him—his successful overturning of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which required gay and lesbian service members to conceal their sexual orientation. “I was leading an View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

quick: By the end of this year, McDonald’s expects mobile ordering to be available at all its 14,000 locations in the United States, and the self-service kiosks in 2,500 locations. Karavites had seen these View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

28 May 2019
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Future Source

Seni Sulyman (MBA 2014) wants to rescript Africa’s role in the world. “For too long the continent has been seen as a place people give things to,” he says. “I want to connect Africa to the world on equal terms.” As vice president of... View Details