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- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
Since the launch of The Harvard Business School Campaign on April 25, 2014, more than 5,000 alumni and guests have come together to celebrate the School and its mission at regional events around the world and the Campaign’s website has... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
connect alumni and friends with fellow alumni, faculty members, and other experts around a variety of issues related to the pandemic. Highlights of their efforts include the following: Africa Research Center—In June, the center launched... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
foundation for entrepreneurial pursuits, in 1998 they launched GoLite, a company that manufactured and sold lightweight, high-performance outdoor clothing and gear. Kim took the reins as CEO in 2000, and the company quickly became a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
launch the strategy revolution. The Corporate Apocalypse and Greater Taylorism After America’s postwar boom and preeminence, factors arose that made strategy consulting both inevitable and irreplaceable. Every historical period feels... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
continue as planned. San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City recently hosted launch events for The Campaign for Harvard Business School. Each event included a powerful multimedia presentation showcasing the tremendous impact HBS alumni... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Download Kraft profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1941 Born, Brookline, Massachusetts 1965 Joins Rand-Whitney 1972 Founds International Forest Products 1994 Buys... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
rubbed off on the School, which set a speed record in approving the trio’s proposal for a pilot program to sprinkle $50,000 in seed money on student start-ups. The Minimum Viable Product Fund, dubbed MVP, attracted 88 teams vying for... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock," Hess added, "business is called on to play a larger role in providing social good. And we need the public to understand how important Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in long reports that provided an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
while writing cases for my MBA course Innovating in Health Care, I created a forum at which health-care leaders from around the globe could gather to learn from each other and share breakthrough knowledge. At HBS in June, with Senior Lecturer Michael Chu as coleader,... View Details
- 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
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
experience working with a Ukrainian supplier named Rolin Kostya, who continues to make his products under great duress. “The week I spoke to them, there had been a half dozen air raid warnings—and indeed one interrupted the Zoom call—and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
survey notes, more than half of HBS alumni launch a business. In this conversation, professors Tom Eisenmann and Bill Kerr discuss HBS’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which empowers students to create an enterprise that has impact. Eisenmann... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
university I joined the Boston Consulting Group in Munich where I focused on industrials and technology, which included a major aircraft production program with a leading aircraft maker,” notes Schmidt. “When I saw how senior managers at... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
corporate clients wishing to develop such programs. After various positions in the firm's sales and strategic planning areas, she eventually became director of new product development. "I loved creating new services for our clients - such... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital business at Mercer, and before... View Details