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- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa. I’ve served on the board of WildCare, an education and advocacy nonprofit based in San Rafael, California, that cares for injured and orphaned animals, which is how I became involved in rehabilitating and View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented circumstances. How do you View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The latter will incorporate updates on School initiatives and provide hands-on training and resources for HBS volunteers. We are grateful to all volunteers- class correspondents, fund agents, club officers, reunion committee members, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
products with various levels of cost and provider choice. Its impressive organic growth also has many lessons on how to train and evaluate people. Modeled after HBS professor emeritus Ray Goldberg's highly successful Agribusiness Program,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
addition to their own seven) when local tribal members weren't able to care for them. "I was trained to be a public servant from a very young age." Favel's résumé, at first glance, might lead one to believe that he had a hard time getting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Sanchez perfected this approach during his two SEAL platoon commands, working with each platoon to develop and execute plans for strategic reconnaissance and training missions in Africa and elsewhere. He is especially proud of his service... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
TroopSwap Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA 1976), Snap-on Ed Ellison (MBA 1991), St. Johns Country Day School Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11 in the United States, is a reminder that the military, through its personnel and its philosophy, has long been a key presence at... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
out of retirement from his Nova Scotia farm, Gunn is working on another rescue, just as he did with the New York and Toronto transit systems. This time it's Amtrak, a challenge equal to any of his past assignments. As befits a train buff,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with funds and View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial support from the Life Sciences Fellowship Fund will be awarded to... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
team. Hyman writes that it will serve the best interests of its 1,200 employees, without whom Rent the Runway would not exist, but she also expects it to benefit the company itself—in the form higher retention rates, lower training costs,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
do—how well cities are run will affect the future of the planet in profound ways.” Within the next four years, as many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral aides will participate in the initiative’s executive training programs. This... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
Starting New Ventures, and Venture Capital and Private Equity. The Class of 1975's major gift cochairs, Leo J. Corbett, Hamilton E.("Tony") James, and Kendrick R. Wilson, reported that their classmates have shown overwhelming enthusiasm for the gift's objectives: to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
remembered always,” the distinguished financier and philanthropist asserted, “that the standard of excellence which must be maintained comes not simply from the outside of the buildings, but from the work and training on the inside.”... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
slowly. In 1978, he wrote Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class. He trademarked his company’s name, Bikram’s Yoga College of India, and in 1994 began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers each year. Bikram also followed the very... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
development. Berglund, now 50, is finishing his pediatrics internship and plans further training in psychiatry, which will require another three years. "The first thing you confront is the question 'Can you do it?' At 45, you wonder if... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... View Details