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- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
lot of items,” he says. “Although I was doing well, the business quickly outgrew me. I knew I needed more training.” So he returned to college at NYU’s School of Business, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class. Then he went... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
needs of aging baby boomers and the time being right for consumer-driven health care? Yes. These are people who were in college in the 1960s and 1970s and were very successful in bringing about social change in this country. They know how... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
with five points of light: character, academics, organizational stability, family/scholar engagement, and college knowledge. “What’s constant is the aspiration to create a greater good,” he says. “We can prove the possible and create hope... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
high school girls in the area. The goal was to help them become first-generation college graduates and, perhaps more important, to believe that they had the ability and the smarts to get there. What started as one woman hoping to mentor a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
threads in Simons’s career. He grew up in a musical family, studied piano and trumpet, and chose a joint music and neuroscience major at Harvard College to investigate the physiologic basis of music therapy. “That turned out to be a space... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
career: Simon still writes music and plays jazz piano. “I’ve recorded nine CDs and at one point performed a couple dozen times a year around the country. I was able to put at least one of my kids through college with my income as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the timing of team selection for... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Marshall Toplansky (MBA 1976), known as the “Innovation Professor” at the Argyros College of Business and Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California. Marshall Toplansky (MBA 1976) The sold-out morning event was held on February... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
scene firsthand so he could address it directly with HBS alumni and guests from local industry and area colleges that evening. “I study industrial competitiveness, so wherever I may be going, I try to take a tour,” says Shih. “Visiting... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
years kept pointing in that direction, and both of my parents had been teachers during their careers. When I felt I had the time and space to turn to something new, I sent out letters to colleges and universities in the Chicago area and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
explore other areas where it can be useful: locating shooters on college campuses, poachers in wildlife refuges, and fishermen who illegally use explosives (harming coral reefs) in Southeast Asia. But the company’s biggest change will... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
assertive." As an undergraduate at Northwestern, she discovered an aptitude for design while working in the college print shop. Following that path to New York's Pratt Institute, she earned a master's degree in package design. "At Pratt... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other colleges and universities to give... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
little bit deeper, you understand that some of those students are paying for their sibling to go to college or helping their parents pay the rent.” Fellowships: A Tradition of Philanthropy To get a better view of students’ situations, in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
from the South and West sides of Chicago. It was part coaching, part social work—there were discipline and academic issues, gangs, guns, and homelessness. Over the five years I coached the program, 25 of our players went on to earn View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
close friends and did some work together before I went off to pursue a career at BCG, Bain & Company, and Farmer & Company. About 10 years ago I began teaching business—something I’d always wanted to do—as an adjunct professor at The City View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
midwestern middle class for generations. Manufacturing jobs paid for college educations, including mine.” He called on the private sector to work with government — “a catalyst for leadership and change” — to set goals for productivity,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
building projects, a 200 percent increase in financial aid, and meaningful progress on diversity. “Some of our kids have been first-generation high school students who go on to be first-generation college students,” he says. “Working with... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
and focus it up the supply chain and let the market forces determine which of the growers, processors, and distributors are going to succeed and be responsive to these market opportunities,” says Kendall. One major opportunity, he says, resides on the region’s View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for whom college is far from a given.... View Details