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- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
milestone for the biotech industry, which has been slow to diversity its leadership, according to a story in the Boston Globe. The article cites a report from 2017 by the Massachusetts Biotech Council, which found that women were far... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Fashionable Fundraising
Thirty-five HBS students and partners took to the runway in mid-April for the Retail & Apparel Club’s 7th annual HBS Fashion Show. The sold-out event packed a Boston restaurant, with the proceeds going to the Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
dedicated to creating and advancing solutions to the core issues driving climate change Matthew Commons (MBA 2007) FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation Waltham and Wilbraham, Massachusetts Wind turbine manufacturer Patricia A. Connolly (MBA... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
contests with real impact in healthcare. We have two programs underway with the Connectivity MAP at the Broad Institute for accelerating drug discovery, and one program with Massachusetts General Hospital on genomic sequencing. Our goal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
New HBSAA Members
Twelve new members will join the HBS Alumni Association Board in October for three-year stints. They are: Jessie d’E. Bourneuf (MBA ’75), Milton, Massachusetts Miro Copic (MBA ’87), San Diego, California Adolfo B. Fastlicht (MBA ’93),... View Details
Albert H. Wiggin
When Wiggin joined Chase in 1904, it was a modest bank with assets of just $250 million. As president, however, Wiggin oversaw a huge expansion wave, including the 1917 founding of the Chase Securities subsidiary. Wiggin's numerous business ties helped gain a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Francis C. Rooney, Jr.
During his 23-year tenure as CEO, Rooney led Melville’s dramatic expansion as a focused retail industry conglomerate. His acquisition of CVS in 1969 became the primary profitability producer for the corporation. Under his leadership, Melville grew to be a $5 billion... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.
Having worked in many of the company's subsidiaries since graduating from college, Rockwell Jr. assumed leadership from his father in 1967 and expanded the company across the globe through a series of mergers and acquisitions. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Willard F. Rockwell
Trained as an engineer, Rockwell had several positions in the auto-parts manufacturing industry prior to becoming president of the entity now known as Rockwell International. Though the company was successful as an auto-parts maker, Rockwell expanded it into many other... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Edward C. Johnson III
Johnson turned the mutual fund group, founded by his father, into an industry giant - mainstream America’s most familiar mutual fund family. He also pioneered such mutual fund practices as selling direct rather than through brokers, offering discount brokerage... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Edward C. Johnson II
Johnson took over management of the Fidelity Fund in 1946 and built a new company, Fidelity Management and Research. Johnson believed that funds should invest in common stocks that were traded heavily. With this mutual fund philosophy as his foundation, he created a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
George F. Johnson
Johnson built a successful shoe company, but his most striking contributions to American capitalism were the progressive labor policies introduced at Endicott-Johnson. His company was the first in the shoe industry to introduce the 8-hour workday, 40-hour workweek, and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
Louis S. Cates
Through acquisitions, such as the Nichols Copper Company, the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and the United Verde Copper Company, Cates expanded Phelps-Dodge into an integrated operation in the copper industry. In 1930, the capital stock of Phelps-Dodge was $30... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) Greg Shell (MBA 2001) and Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) launched the NCF in June 2020, along with 17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts corporations. Pursuing an innovative,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
legislation to revive the ailing middle class as business groups dig in for a fight on Capitol Hill. Model Patient The Massachusetts approach to health-care reform, enacted under former governor Mitt Romney (MBA ’74), is often cited as a... View Details
Jeff Goldman
outline for a program known as the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program, which three different Governors of Massachusetts have adopted as part of their plans to assist the best and... View Details
Jeff Goldman
outline for a program known as the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program, which three different Governors of Massachusetts have adopted as part of their plans to assist the best and... View Details
Keywords: Legal
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Related Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
connections between American and Chinese merchants. The Ipswich Museum on the North Shore of Massachusetts preserves Ipswich’s social, cultural, and architectural history, including the Federal-style Heard House, built in 1800. The... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts corporations. Pursuing an innovative, state-focused approach, the fund specifically targets Black- and brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes... View Details