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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
CLOSING THE GAP: Bill George makes a point about how business leaders often are chosen for the wrong reasons. He’s flanked by moderator Jonathan Kelly (HBS ’08) and HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. From Enron and WorldCom to Hurricane... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
Cooking Up New Opportunities in New Orleans
Carol Ahn Markowitz (MBA 2003) gave up a safe life in corporate finance to head to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She now leads a $33.5 million culinary institute start-up. It’s been a bumpy road. Markowitz couldn’t find a job... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Proenza Schouler, and Ralph Lauren, to provide more than $1 million in direct relief for victims of the earthquake in Nepal, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and Hurricane Sandy. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
High Stakes on the High Seas
In 1998, on the day after Christmas, 115 sailboats crossed the starting line in Sydney, Australia, bound for Tasmania, a 630-mile dash across the Bass Strait, one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water. The fabled Sydney to Hobart race went ahead despite... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
A Passion for Organization
opportunity to come and learn the things that we have learned here. “When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, I had previously lived in Houston. For me, that hit pretty close to home. And I still had family back in Houston, and felt the desire... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS skills to projects ranging... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
says, usually less than 24 hours, while longer outages have been more localized and the areas affected have been able to rely on outside help. The recent collapse of Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria, however, is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
the student-led Hurricane Relief Trek. The experience gave students an opportunity to apply their management skills and make a personal contribution to the city’s recovery. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, HBS assistant professor Romana... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
always going to be here, but we needed to have a base of operations closer to California, where we do a lot of work, and Boulder is a great quality of life complement to Miami. Last year we had to close the agency for about a week after a View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
says they gave their candidate an out. “Bravo to her, she came anyway,” she says. “And I’m so grateful that she did.” After the aquifer in Grand Bahama was contaminated by salt water in 2019’s Hurricane Dorian, Mercy Corps partnered with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
restructured John’s Island’s management company, Community Condominium Services, Inc., by reducing costs while improving services and its hurricane protection practices. At the John’s Island Club, he was a regular speaker and co-chair of... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we spent a lot of time thinking about how the stages of disasters unfold: the early needs of immediate relief and then the longer-term needs of recovery. At BlackRock, COVID added an additional layer of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
marketing, and, of course, project management. “We look at the entire evolution of a disaster—from the day when the hurricane hits all the way through the rebuild of that community, can last five, seven, 10 years,” Dyson says. “We try to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
declaring it to be a possible “sonic” attack, the United States issued a travel warning, reduced its embassy staff by two-thirds, and expelled 15 Cuban diplomats. In September, Hurricane Irma hit Cuba, killing 10, ravaging the power... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
filming his lessons. Sal Khan: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit, and those same cousins were dispersed to Texas and Florida. And so, in many ways I was their safety net education system while they were refugees, I guess, with a lowercase... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
even Massachusetts. And Georgia is in the next tier behind those. So it's like a category 4 hurricane that's a couple of days off the coast about to hit us, and we're trying desperately to be sure that we're prepared when that happens.... View Details