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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Honoring a legacy
Having joined her family’s international shipping, trading, and finance business, Foremost Group, in 2001, Angela A. Chao (AB 1995, MBA 2001) began her career focusing on the company’s safety management system and vessel security planning. Now, as deputy chairman, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Now Starring: Single Dad
WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a couple of years, Wand’s wife left... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983, FedEx was reinventing domestic... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au
information networking. “I was a linear thinker,” he says. “After being exposed to the case method and a diverse group of peers, I began to think more broadly and understand the importance of relationships in business.” A native of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
progress nationwide is slow. A 2019 US Energy Information Administration report indicated that just over 100,000 of the estimated 6 million commercial buildings in the United States had achieved LEED certification. “Vast potential remains... 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
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
SCHOLAR, WRITER, TEACHER: Levitt, in a photo from 1983. His research tranformed the study and practice of marketing. The HBS community lost a legendary member of its faculty June 28 when marketing expert Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt died at his home in Belmont,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
of books that make up its online inventory on hand—but the curation is not specific to the location. Nationwide ordering trends and reviews inform what is available on the shelves in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. In late... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
While out for dinner, she and a friend were informed they had to leave immediately due to a 5 p.m. curfew. The next day, and every day after that, Enan joined millions of fellow Egyptians in Tahrir Square. On February 11, after 30 years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give up and call it a career. MacDonald tossed off lines like... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that education alone can’t transform... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
people compete for recognition, they stop sharing information. And that’s destructive because nobody in an organization has all of the information required to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. A Streamlined Organization Is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have embarked on second careers. Just a few months removed from Wall Street, where he commanded a workforce of six thousand seasoned financial services pros, Richard S. Pechter (MBA ’69) stood before an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn, for example, they shared the halfear they had available. It’s just one example of the formal and informal networks in place to pass along Native heirloom seeds. Each season, Keen can request two varieties from the Cherokee Nation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Dynamic Duo
Steve Pagliuca and Judy Pagliuca New HBS Fund Chairs Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982) and Judy Pagliuca (MBA 1983) know the importance of giving back. Steve, a managing director of Bain Capital and co-owner of the Boston Celtics, serves as a trustee for the Bain Capital... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
James Has New Role
(photo by Susan Young) (photo by Susan Young) Ralph James (MBA 1982), who previously headed Executive Education at HBS, became executive director of External Relations in July. In his new role, James is responsible for development and alumni relations. “As an HBS... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- News
Professor Emeritus Walter J. Salmon Dies at 84
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Working closely together, we've got some great talent. I think that's what gives us confidence. But there are always moments you go, God, I hope this works. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
where you sit in the middle and there's companies that you're getting information from and that you're highlighting. There's estimates based on these different climate models that you mentioned. You have users on one side and then you... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
lending process driven solely by data. Working for Amazon in Seattle at the time, he went to some data-scientist friends armed with 1.2 million Small Business Association (SBA) loan records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley