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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
her career in new directions and add greater value to the company, she wanted to broaden her insights, skills, and network, which prompted her to enroll in HBS’s General Management Program (GMP) in 2021, a decision made more feasible... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class.” “At our house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class.” After graduating from Columbia University with a double major in economics and mathematics, Dasgupta worked... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
goal of implementing around-the-clock detection of hazardous novel viruses and bacteria, so they can be addressed early enough to thwart infectious diseases and prevent the human and economic toll the world experienced during the recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
This led a flood of new investors, from part-time novices to deep-pocketed hedge funds, to get into the game, pushing the sector to a record-breaking $344 billion in deals in 2021. So when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
business leaders navigate this rapidly evolving next frontier of the internet, build new ventures in it, and adapt existing business models so that companies and organizations can take advantage of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
successes of chess players to see why Berman thinks it’s a “no-brainer” to train children to play chess. Peter Thiel, PayPal’s cofounder, is a chess master. Douglas Hirsch, Seneca Capital founder, plays too. Ken Rogoff, professor of View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
innovations that will move the School forward. I’m a big believer that you are never too old to learn new things. So I’ve made a practice of going back to my notes at the end of each week to see and reflect on what I have learned.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
in the all-state band and orchestra. As a Harvard undergraduate, Hughes quickly rose to prominence in economics and government circles at the University as publisher of the Harvard Political Review and copresident of the Women in View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard
which senior executives identify as one of their top priorities, along with climate change and diversity, equity, and inclusion. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES Based at HBS, the Institute offers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
Myopia” has sold more than 850,000 reprints, making it one of the best-selling HBR articles of all time. In 1983, Levitt penned another classic with the HBR article “The Globalization of Markets.” Besides popularizing the word “globalization,” he asserted that View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over... 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... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
President, The Baupost Group Download Klarman profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1957 Born, New York City 1979 Joins Mutual Shares full time 1982 Baupost is launched 1990 Creates Klarman Family Foundation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details