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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Global Ambition
joined the HBS Alumni Board. They are members of the HBS Fund Investors Society, which recognizes leadership donors to the HBS Fund. “We want to benefit as many people as possible with our support,” says Chew, noting that their support is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
momentum, as well as the uncanny levels of enthusiasm for the game, it’s no surprise that billions of dollars are being poured into the industry in the shape of pro teams and tournaments, franchises, broadcasting rights, and celebrity endorsements, as View Details
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
invaluable resource. He received advice from more experienced founders, and angel investors affiliated with the nonprofit were among the backers of his startups; Nadkarni followed up TeamOn with Livemocha, a pioneer in the social-language... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Block by Block
integration, embedded sound systems and projectors, and modern interior layouts. Status: Wong, a former SpaceX engineer, founded Cloud Apartments in early 2021 and has closed more than $3 million from lead investor Tim Connors (MBA 1999)... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
for Dlodlo but also for the community leaders who have supported her progress, and who see in her the possibility of rejuvenating West Baltimore Street and its surrounding neighborhoods. That support separates her from her predecessors:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
supportive community it gave us in which to learn and grow as entrepreneurs.” After earning prize money as runners-up in both the HBS New Venture Competition and the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, the founders secured funding... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
to the 6th century Why? In short, says Berman, the 1,500-year-old game makes kids smarter. (Berman’s own oldest son is ranked No. 11 in the country for his age group and his 6-year-old recently earned the No. 3 spot among kindergartners. Both boys play against... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm
giving, recent graduates, international alumni, and HBS Fund Investors Society membership. A graduate of Wellesley College, Anna is chairman of the Spangler Companies, a private investment firm. Tom, who received his BS from Stanford... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Vu Hoai (MBA '94), an acquaintance whom she met through HIID and who worked most recently at the Vietnam offices of KPMG. "If I had to give two pieces of advice to foreign investors in Vietnam," says Hoai, "the first would be to be... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
experience,” she says. “No one ever spoke about culture; it was embedded. We were in it together.” That interest in the very human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the world’s leading private equity firms. The decision to specialize in media and communications in 1985 might seem prescient, but the low-key Nelson claims he was merely following his passion. “I’ve always been drawn to it,” says Nelson,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
model has developed, it has grown beyond financial incentives. The ultimate goal is to foster a stronger relationship between the workforce and management by investing in the employees. That includes providing employees with financial literacy education, involving them... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
We see a strong push from customers and investors to adopt climate-positive policies and products. And we see movement to adopt policies that emphasize human consequences, these in addition to traditional approaches to compliance with... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
residential campus that forms its own vibrant community in the heart of Boston. Those 360 acres in Allston are where the opportunity is, said Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). With the opening of the Harvard John... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details