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- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
an insider's view of the action, the Bulletin asked five members of the class who have been involved in a variety of banking endeavors to share some personal and professional insights and to reflect on the lessons, losses, and phenomenal gains of their View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Rio de Janeiro 1969 Earns BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering 1974 Earns PhD, Economics, University of Chicago 1974 Named... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
standardization has been a failure mode for innovation and productivity until recently,” he observes. Yang has spent much of his career in the cleantech industry and is founder and CEO of Liatris, an eco-friendly insulation startup. He... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
first is a mission-driven real estate development firm focused on creating desirable affordable housing for single mothers and their families. The second is a nonprofit that uses a percentage of the firm’s revenues to provide emergency... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
Ballou worked on the front lines with local parent-teacher associations in Liberian villages to raise funds for textbooks and teacher salaries. The experience provided ample insight into "the huge problems that nonprofits have in getting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
and CEO for ten years at National Industries for the Blind, a venerable nonprofit that he turned into a results-oriented, 21st-century enterprise that enhances economic opportunities and professional... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government agencies work. “Everybody tells you... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
executives who participated in the Management Development Program, a course offered for the first time in the fall of 2003 by the HBS Alumni Association of Charlotte. Taught by volunteer HBS alumni — local leaders in their respective View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
With the understated charm that has won him legions of fans on the big screen, Hollywood legend Paul Newman came to HBS in mid-October to talk about his successful second career as a social entrepreneur. During his daylong visit, Newman attended the debut of a new case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
Management Assistance Program (MAP), a local nonprofit, to match volunteers with projects. In addition to consulting work, volunteers can mentor a nonprofit executive or serve as a board member. Both Levy and Sanchez of South Florida cite... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
path for Rick Sontag, then the president of an aviation-components manufacturer. “If I ever get a chance to do something about this disease,” he pledged. “I’m going to do it.” In 2002, he had that chance. Sontag sold Unison Industries to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
The School's inaugural group of Service Leadership Fellows gathered for a Class Day breakfast celebration. For students interested in working in social enterprises after graduation, the new program matches them with nonprofit and... View Details