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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Hall of Fame. I hope that you are among the growing number of alumni who have discovered the latest HBS tool: HBS Working Knowledge is a dynamic Web portal that offers the latest in timely business topics,... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States seek to reduce poverty and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
me to study questions around how interactions play out for years down the road. But in some ways the decisions about what data to collect, and how the environment is organized, weren’t made by me. Given those constraints, I have a lot of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
all we heard were the sounds of insects and the flutes played by the night watchmen who cared for cows and buffalo. We were afraid of the dark, because we heard stories about witches and goblins eating people caught outside after sundown.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
turn this business into a real cash cow.” “By going to HBS, I developed the skills, confidence, and knowledge to be a good steward of this family business. I don’t know if my sons will want to work here, but... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
all highly successful. But they also share something in common: failure. Steve Schwarzman: You don't grow just by winning games. You have to lose a few to figure out how to make your team better. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
so as I said, this has been around since the dawn of time, but it has been supercharged by technology. And so I actually had a guy on the show who is a very interesting character. His name is Giancarlo Pitocco, and he View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
Diego, followed by managing king crab and salmon fishing in Washington State and Alaska. “I was in Dutch Harbor, navigating the logistics of catching and freezing and making deals with Japanese customers,” he remembers. “I seemed to find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
driven by hard-charging entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
Gustavo A. Herrero (MBA '76) heads the Latin American Research Center (LARC), located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The School's third off-campus research facility, the LARC will officially open in August with a research conference in Buenos Aires that will be attended... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
employees, and improve business outcomes through a flexible work strategy. More Alumni Books The New Legions: American Strategy and the Responsibility of Power by Edward B. Atkeson (AMP 64, 1972) ((Rowman... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
with the Wahhabi establishment, and its increasingly dangerous environment populated with a diverse set of enemies, he looks at the prospects for the survival of the monarchy and suggests ideas for reform. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
other data by geography, and is now working on Common Pass, a platform that will pull clinical information from Common Health and Apple Health to allow travelers to display health status. The goal is to use... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and shrinking polar ice to increasing global temperatures—are almost too much to take in.... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the world. But as he tells associate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
you're the president, but our differences about how to run it are getting bigger, and our relationship is deteriorating quickly. I think the best thing is for me to leave." The elder Pellegrin, 58 years old, was momentarily stunned. His mind flashed back over the past... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard Business School on January the 1st. It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for... View Details