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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Agent of change
varied path for the Lafayette College chemical engineering major and former process engineer at Proctor & Gamble. "I really enjoy new challenges," says Skovran, who credits HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Open Canvas
and engineering in college and has exhibited his own work in Mumbai and Delhi, donating the proceeds to charity. “Art represents nonviolence, or ahimsa in Hindi. Every piece evokes a story, a memory, an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how View Details
Keywords: Management
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Bridging the Gap
Pandemic A For-Profit Business that Makes Education Accessible Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today’s Challenges Community Colleges as Engines of Opportunity View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
obstacle.” The experience helped shape her focus as she later pursued her career. “Being able to help my community—that’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Engineering was the first step for Thompson-Woode. A first-generation View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
talent to its colleges and universities. An entrepreneur’s dollar goes much further here. Some cities are known for specific verticals, but Atlanta has fintech, health tech, and representation in sports, film, and music. RICE is a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
been improving lives in India for years. As CEO at Cummins, he helped establish the first engineering college for women; and later, at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
alumni). Another collaborative effort is the MS/MBA joint degree program launched by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), with the first cohort of about 30 students arriving in August. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
anywhere. A little serendipity, a passion for making a difference, and degrees in computer science, math, and engineering (plus his MBA) brought him to this point. After HBS, Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston when a young... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
than half of new college graduates are underemployed. We’re not measuring whether someone got a job in their field, we’re measuring whether they got any kind of college level occupation. So, for example, an... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
Jose Arche (MBA 2016) has had a lifelong curiosity about how things work. “There were always family stories being told about my taking everything apart,” recalls the former engineer at the Boeing Company. Arche’s experience at Boeing made... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)—including the nascent MS/MBA joint degree program—at a time, notes Sanjeev, “when leaders who have expertise across these domains are sorely... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
free education and workplace skills training,” he says. “Why wait?” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Bridging the Gap Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today’s Challenges Community View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian equivalent of a Marine Corps or... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and decision analysis. A chemical View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- News
The Future of GE
advances in data collection and analysis to, for example, improve jet engine performance and fuel efficiency. “Everybody who joins G.E. is going to learn to code,” Immelt said. “We hire 4,000 to 5,000 View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
and—inspired by a guest speaker, an electrical engineer who said he made $300 a week, a distant dream to a boy in his circumstances—an electrical engineer. But given his family's financial limitations, View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
and then went to work in a factory and his mother, a homemaker, did not attend college because her father didn’t think education benefited women. Thinking Bigger In his parents, Ryan saw a deep determination to foster opportunities that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details