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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Administration (HRPBA). A SELECT FEW: Women arrived at HBS with the same goal as their male counterparts: to further their education and find meaningful work. One of those women was Sara ("Sally") Wilkinson (HRPBA 1959, MBA 1960), who is... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
California to shut down. She had been working closely with epidemiologists early on. San Francisco is the second densest city in the US, and while no one wants to see a complete shutdown, she said it was troubling to see the numbers going... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
Cofounder, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer American Management Systems, Inc. Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com EARLIER View Details
- 11 Aug 2011
- News
Heard on the Street and the She-E-Os
’91). A member of HOTS in 1990 provided a snapshot of the group in its early days. There were 16 members, and they sang in four-part harmony. Their signature song was “House of Blue Lights.” Also in their repertory were such 1960s hits as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
cross-disciplinary expertise of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard Business School, and Harvard Business School Online. “With these courses, you’re examining ‘How can I shift the way people think?’” explains Mills.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
kind of model didn’t even have a name until October 2007. Sitting around a table at a Rockefeller Foundation–sponsored retreat in Lake Como, Italy, with some of the early leaders in the field—including representatives from the Skoll... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
reap appropriate rewards. Consumer Capitalism by Gunnar Trumbull (Cornell University Press) The author investigates the origins of national systems of consumer protection in France and Germany, where consumer groups and producers organized in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
More than a Game
to look for, the scrum is just one exciting aspect of a game that breeds camaraderie, high spirits, and long-term friendships. “We have some guys on our team who are in their early 60s who've been playing in these alumni games for thirty... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning government agencies into... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support incoming black students and enhance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
pulling the financial system back from the brink. This marked a sharp contrast to the disastrous “liquidationist” policies of the early 1930s, when public officials (particularly at the Federal Reserve) were so afraid of moral hazard that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
had founded “about an hour or two after Prohibition ended, so I’m told,” Cohen says with a smile. After graduating from Smith College in 1964, she spent a year at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education before enrolling at HBS, much to her... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
position to compete online in the early stages of Netflix, but preferred to focus on improving traditional services rather than look into new distribution channels and to follow consumer preferences. —Ayuna Badmaeva (GMP 12, 2012) via... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
this perspective. While the fashion business was not an unknown concept, it was new to India, and early Indian high-end designers sought legitimacy and acceptance by avoiding avant-garde styles, instead creating luxurious, opulent fabrics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the financial world had become detached... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
mingling with celebrities was all in a day’s work. “My ambition to do something uniquely creative was born at an early age,” says Wilson, who often hung out on the sets of hits such as Till Death Us Do Part (later remade as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
ensure that the game continues to thrive. With research (some being financed by the NFL) and understanding still in their early stages, the issue of concussions in football has become a paramount concern, with recent findings suggesting... View Details