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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
the School in creating a truly magnificent educational facility." Beverly Hawes expressed the family's enthusiasm for the project and the hope that the students who will be educated in Hawes Hall will use the knowledge that they gain "to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Foundation shows how the unhealthiness of an industry’s workers correlates closely with the unhealthiness of the communities in which those workers and their families reside. Companies that invest in community health have the potential to... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
and PhytoTEK were semifinalists, while AI Exchange received a mention at Monday's awards dinner as the winner of an informal popular vote. Modeled after the HBS student Business Plan Contest, now in its 15th year, the Alumni New Venture... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals
Taking extended leave wasn’t a new idea for Paul Luning (MBA 2011), it was more of a family tradition: his parents credit their extended honeymoon as a defining moment in their lives. Paul took time off when he could, by studying abroad,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Yes, proceeds from working on The Post enabled the purchase of a new home in Santa Monica. Yes, he’s been invited to some fancier dinner parties. But the day-to-day routine hasn’t changed much: “I’m still sitting in my underwear,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details
- Profile
Maxeme Tuchman
a nonprofit, public-affairs leadership program, led to a job serving the first deputy mayor, Patti Harris, in the New York City Mayor's Office, affectionately known as "The Bull pen." Among the special projects Max tackled were... View Details
- Profile
Mallika Ahluwalia
school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected orphans. "I got closely... View Details
- Profile
Alice Yang
projects ranging from an analysis of PIH’s clinical outcomes in rural Haiti, editing and publishing a bilingual manual on AIDS treatment in resource-poor settings, overseeing potable water projects for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
rural development project in Tanzania between her first and second years at HBS changed her life completely. Professionally, the excitement of the business challenges she tackled showed her that "arts administration wouldn't be creative... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
The daughter of Nigerian and Togolese immigrants who settled in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, Modupe Akinola (MBA 2001) was raised to know the value of a strong family and a good education. In light of the sacrifices her parents made to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
product categories the frantic effort to keep up with the competition by adding features and gimmicks can paradoxically result in a “sea of sameness.” In a personal narrative voice, and drawing extensively on the experiences of family and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
staff about priority setting for the School, Kirby’s work framed the larger conversation and served as a bracing reminder that greatness cannot be taken for granted. Addressing spring reunion attendees in Burden Hall, Nohria said that Kirby, the Spangler View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
impact?” “One of our big projects was to enable people in California to get food assistance from their mobile phone. To promote that, we started running Google AdWord campaigns. We’ve found that for every $10 that we spend, we can get... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics was beginning its great leap... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
says. “With this type of AR, we can draw family and friends to the table for game nights in a whole new way, even when your fellow players are at different tables, in other cities.” Stats: Tilt Five is located in San Jose, California, and... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or... View Details