Filter Results:
(88)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(329)
- News (88)
- Research (143)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (61)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(329)
- News (88)
- Research (143)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (61)
Sort by
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
transitioning early I could build a new career and contribute to society on a wider scale,” he observes, describing his decision to retire in 2003 at age 55. He resolved to work in areas and on issues that... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Shibayama founded AG Holdings, a consultancy with a special focus on art and culture programs. Art was the last thing on Shibayama’s mind 35 years ago, when he started working at Mitsubishi Corp., one of Japan’s giant trading companies,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
Trollope, chaired the Trollope Society and was a noted philanthropist in England as well as in America.) At age 99, he was working out with a personal trainer three times a week; at 105, he kept a Manhattan... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
at the age of 13 to study the cello at the Julliard School in New York and later studied with the acclaimed soloist Lynn Harrell (also a student of Lev Aronson) at USC's Thornton School of Music. “That makes Ben a third generation artist... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him from the estate of a distant relative, and wasn’t particularly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
City’s welfare hotels. It prompted me to volunteer in a Children’s Aid Society program inside the largest such hotel, the Prince George Hotel, helping kids with their homework, taking them to the park, and just being a friend. When the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
fallen prey to skyrocketing rates of opioid abuse. “Every single one of my staff members has been affected in one way or another,” Marietta says of the opioid epidemic. “It’s wiped out an entire generation of people aged 20 to 45.” By... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
was one of Tierney's first lessons in compartmentalizing his dual interests — that of running a highly profitable enterprise and that of helping those less fortunate than himself. After some experimentation with combining the two, he determined that he could make a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
boards, formalized my angel investing, and was off and running. In 2017, I launched a new online panel of 500 voters from all points along the political spectrum, of every age and ethnicity, and from every state in the union. For the next... View Details
- 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 beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
organizations. “It’s in that world that you get a glimpse of what is happening in the overall economy,” she says. “The Dun collection is remarkable in that sense because it references all of American society in the industrial age.” “The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
antibodies effective in fighting cancer. It all seems far removed from Depression-era Fargo, North Dakota, where Goldberg grew up and where, at age 10, he began working in his father's small hay, feed, and grain business. He later went... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
staff to help her temper her corporate mentality, which she admits at times lacked empathy. “At the age of 50, I had never once cried in my life,” she says. “By then, I'd had breast cancer three times and my mother was dead—I hadn't cried... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
and how we each contribute to making it better. Last September, at the age of 64, the stars finally aligned. I shipped a bike from my home in Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle, Washington, and began the 3,000-some-odd-mile journey... View Details