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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
disparity, and the need for government to modernize itself and not impede the business process. "As a society, we recognize that the private sector is our most dynamic, innovative, and capable institution," Checchi asserts. "To continue to enjoy that status, however,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
felt like she was my younger sister, that we somehow got separated in childhood. We talked as if we had been friends for a long time. It’s definitely not a typical situation when you meet someone like this for the first time.” And, like... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
I cherish and enjoy! My job involves bringing in new customers, retaining and growing business with current customers, leading new projects, developing new products, spearheading new technology drives, meeting investors and stakeholders,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
which direction it should proceed, and what the future may bring. The Alumni Association Board of Directors The Alumni Association Board of Directors serves as an important link between alumni and the School. Comprising some 45 graduates, the board holds three formal... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium Group, as reported by Axios.com,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
benefit by meeting a talented group of potential employees. Students took part in one such networking event, a "Startup Career Fair," that focused on early-stage high-tech enterprises and included a series of top-level panel discussions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
‘Your tribal corn.’” Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story later told in the 2016 documentary Seed. At the time, Keen was serving as a representative on the Cherokee National Council. During a View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
(January 8, 2001) reported. The article described how Zhang, through hard work and sacrifice, made her way to HBS and eventually founded WildChina.com, a firm that specializes in off-the-beaten-track tours of China’s scenic and culturally... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Boston to meet with me,” she recalls with some amazement. “And I suddenly realized the power, the reach we had as shareholders.” Aiyer demonstrated to Albertsons that unfair employment practices were a financial liability, and the company... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition while View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Think Tank
A faculty team charged with designing the new yearlong FIELD course — short for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development — in the first year of the MBA Program has been meeting regularly since January. The walls and panels... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
May's Harvard Commencement was a special one for Anand Mahindra (MBA 1981), chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra, as the University used the occasion to recognize him and two others with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
Altiostar Networks, Inc. Dahod outside his Tewksbury, MA, office “The best way to deliver on shareholder value is not to focus on shareholder value. Focus on meeting customer... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Building trust is crucial to the relationships fostered by CollaborateUp, the consulting firm founded by Richard Crespin (GMP 4, 1999), yet sometimes it’s tough. When he recently took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business schools belonged in universities: The interests of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
size, scale, and scope. Today, we see a specialization in activity: There are those who are really good at supporting large numbers of relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs, and then there are those that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (MBA 1976) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay in... View Details