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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
sisters to private school and providing them with a culturally rich home life — this bright young woman, whose Nigerian first name means “Thank God,” has made it a priority to help children who have not been as fortunate as she. As a... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in a position to raise... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
Tea’s products. We chose our name because tea evokes a sense of presence, connection, and timelessness.” Rawdon’s desire to foster these cross-cultural connections also led to Tea’s partnership with the Global Fund for Children (GFC), a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
pre-vet course of study at Texas A&M but was lured to the booming oil and gas industry after graduation. He applied to HBS a few years later and went to Wall Street after leaving Soldiers Field. Anderson worked for Donaldson, Lufkin &... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
industry. Joined in 1979 by Douglas M. Schair (MBA '71) and another partner, Hawes followed an ambitious agenda. By 1988, the firm had completed more than one hundred deals and outdistanced even the leading Wall Street investment banks in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
photographing the lava spill that runs the length of the high street in Goma, and in Mozambique, where I found myself, inadvertently, heading towards the presidential palace,” he told The Times of London (September 24, 2011). Even so,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
subsidiary Entertainment Asylum, an entertainment-related content provider on the Internet. Despite the hefty title, she still spends quality time with her children in the evenings and on weekends. "I think it's actually healthy to have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
in 1995 after a successful Wall Street career. In a unanimous board vote last fall, he became only the third Bank president to be reappointed to a second five-year term. Excerpts from his speech, "The Challenges Facing the World Bank in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Street Investment Management, Inc. Tiampo, a Massachusetts native, is a member of the boards of Reality Quest Inc., in Longmont, Colorado, and of PlusFactor Software Inc., in Portland, Oregon. He is a cum laude graduate of Tufts... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
and then, hopefully, you have a real reward in the end because you've made a difference in people's lives." At Eos, Silbert is hoping to make a difference by targeting hunger in Massachusetts, with a specific initiative to get affordable healthy, nourishing food to as... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Graham retraced the unusual path that brought her to the top position at the Washington Post in 1963. It is a story that she chronicled in Personal History, her best-selling memoir that, one week after her HBS visit, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
thought I might like to be the editor of the Wall Street Journal one day). When our first child, Matt, was born four days after I began at HBS, my own economic development became an issue. My wife wanted to stay home with Matt, and I was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
one-story former garage on Grand Street in Soho that would be the main home of Deitch Projects for fifteen years. A Photographic Odyssey: Around the World with Alexander W. Dreyfoos by Alexander W. Dreyfoos (MBA 1958) (Cultural Council of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
of those as a partner at Charles River Ventures and then at Schroder Ventures, before her son Zach was born. "I thrived on making the huge deals," she notes. "Yet I had always wanted children and thought I could do both. I didn't realize... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
maximize self-discovery beyond the classroom. “We recruit children every summer for a week-long program of workshops about leadership and empowering change. It’s all volunteer-run,” Rewane says. Upon graduating from Stanford, she took a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
They didn’t know anyone there and did little research before the move. But stories of the city’s recovery—and the HBO series Tremé, which captured its rollicking lifestyle—fired their imagination. With two small children in tow, the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
strengthening diversity at Salesianum, where tuition is close to $16,000 annually, were top priorities. “From its earliest days, the school’s leaders reached out to educate children of immigrants who couldn’t afford tuition,” he notes.... View Details