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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
vice president of the university's Black Alumni Association. Working at Procter & Gamble after graduation, he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. As a regional sales... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
George Floyd’s murder and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement further sharpened corporate America’s determination in working toward inclusion. Businesses have committed millions of dollars to advancing equity. Millions likewise... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
wholly owned candy, ice-cream, and snack food manufacturer in Shenyang, a city in northeast China. Coming from a towering, Cambridge-educated, Mandarin-speaking American wearing a black ten-gallon cowboy hat, Kirkwood's message clearly... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
homemade specialties such as sweet plantains, black beans, and fried yucca in mouthwatering detail. “Typical industry practices like ‘boil in the bag' and ‘freezer to fryer' have resulted in commodity-like, homogeneous food.” "When you... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
It's the first day of class at HBS, and students introduce themselves one by one, proudly enumerating their accomplishments. Finally a young man with a long black braid rises from his seat. "I don't have much to say," he declares with... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
the company might wind up supplying the technology that closes the door on the NISQ era once and for all. “This,” Levy says, a conspiratorial twinkle in his eye, “is the black art of chipmaking.” Standing in the heart of SEEQC’s chip... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
preparing them to launch their own businesses. These projects were all designed to put the school back in the black while restoring its original purpose of improving the lives of students and community members through Appalachian... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
40 companies have pledged to create jobs for one million Black Americans over the next decade, and we are their research partners for this project. The first question is how do we get the data on the existing situation and then track what... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
keep me going,” she says. “You feel like you are making a difference. Without UNICEF, for example, Maqboola would never have gone to school at all.” The largest country in Africa, Sudan gained independence from Britain in 1956. Civil conflict between its Arab Islamic... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
remembers feeling "isolated" when she and her husband, well-known Boston attorney Fletcher ("Flash") Wiley, came to the city for graduate school - she at HBS and he at Harvard Law School. But the couple stayed on to launch their respective careers and, hoping to become... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
decoration. Before the lively party began, one man offered a prayer of gratitude “for our deliverance from the high winds of the wintry mountains and from the cruel snows fallen upon us, and from the perils of the black night and dark... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
forced business closings due to contentious negotiations between the unions and the state and other employers. A real black swan. This has worsened an economy already weakened by the global financial crisis. Such conditions test the... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Hanna: In addition to serving as COO and treasurer of the Ford Foundation, Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) started the nonprofit advocacy group, Moms of Black Boys United, after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
accounting developments, as well as techniques for improving group process — like a Six Sigma Black Belt for directors. A fee of one one-hundredth of one cent per share on the current volume of the U.S. stock exchanges would yield about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
a stuntman. He holds a seventh-degree black belt in karate and is a board-certified hypnotherapist, as well as a scuba instructor, special-effects pyrotechnics operator, licensed building contractor, and flight instructor for airplanes... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
Southeast states. (Fans recommend the Cold Mountain Winter Ale and award-winning Black Mocha Stout.) "Highland is well-known for its support of the Asheville community," notes Baker. "It's an especially interesting business because it's a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
struggle now with Beavis and Butthead. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Bre-X, Microsoft, S&Ls, celebrity murders, sexual politics, Berkshire and Buffett, and the Dow approaches 10,000 despite Black Monday. Ma Bell, Princess Di,... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
The nonprofit world required a change in thinking for Tercek. "At Goldman Sachs, goals and metrics were super clear," he said. "At TNC, it's not as black and white. All the work we do is important. But we have to be vigilant about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
definitely hasn’t held her back. Her chief operations officer, a Six Sigma Black Belt, works continually to make every aspect of IceStone’s manufacturing process more efficient. “Now my classmates cheer me on for pursuing my vision,” she... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
and finely sliced almonds as garnish. Bombay Aloo Ingredients (to serve 4) 6 medium Idaho potatoes (peeled, cut into ½ inch cubes) 3 tablespoons Canola or any other vegetable cooking oil 1 teaspoon black mustard seeds 1 teaspoon salt (or... View Details