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01 Mar 2011
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Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note

extra effort paid off. Revenue grew by $5.6 million over the previous year to $113 million. HBP and Executive Education helped to offset the $12 million drop in the School’s endowment distribution to $101 million. At the end of the fiscal... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Sep 2017
News

Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member Howard Stevenson met individually with more than 1,000 alumni... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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The Golden Thread

importing, packing, and distribution business. Neither of her parents attended college but they did set a very clear expectation that all seven children would do so. “I was doing very well in chemistry, but I didn’t want to think about it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA

produce traditions unless you innovate.” The case method itself was once an innovation, Nohria continues. The first case wasn’t written until 12 years after the School was founded in 1908. Today, HBS distributes about 10 million cases a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or gender. The products and curriculum... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2000
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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 2009
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Home from the Sea

classrooms to adventures and expeditions worldwide. The programs are distributed both online and via Newspapers in Education channels. I met with Wilson recently in the historic seaport of Salem, Massachusetts. Over breakfast, he... View Details

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

01 Sep 2010
News

Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest

The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social venture tracks. The final round of... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution

01 Apr 2000
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The World at a Click

Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by distribution relationships with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelly

25 Jul 2013
News

An Engine of Education Innovation

for 10 years, taking over as CEO in 2011. Match has a three-pronged approach: it runs a system of six public charter schools, manages its own master's degree-granting graduate school of education, and operates a publishing arm that View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

24 Feb 2011
News

Show Time

be represented at the gala. One of this year’s nominees for Best Picture, Winter’s Bone, and Biutiful, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, are both distributed by Roadside Attractions, cofounded by Eric D’Arbeloff (MBA ’93). A... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

18 Jan 2012
News

Charter Supporter

headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

were conducted during the lockdown last year in Tamil Nadu and real-time implementation of the drones delivering COVID-19 vaccines looks promising.” JANUARY 11 Ten years ago, Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) founded Hope and Comfort, a nonprofit that collects and View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

to promote new behaviors and monitor symptoms. They man quarantine control points 24/7 and attend to patients that need to be isolated at village health stations. Many operate without light at night and lose communications when they cannot charge their phones. HSSI is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

core business of distributing financial information, Bloomberg has added print, broadcast, and other media, with 400 reporters in 70 bureaus writing 3,000 business and nonbusiness stories daily for outlets in 25 countries. This explosive... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

lineup of special guests and surprises. All episodes of The Domonique Foxworth Show are available online at ESPN.com, the ESPN NFL YouTube channel, and on all podcast distribution platforms. View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Dec 2019
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Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

involved with the business, but there was no obvious path that I could see.” At DreamWorks, Iyer works with the COO and head of distribution on a variety of special projects, which gives her the opportunity to gain a broad view of the... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

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