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- 01 Jun 2025
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Venture: A Welcome Assist
their families surpasses $13 trillion. About 17 percent of the world’s population is affected by disabilities. There’s also the fact that, beginning in June, any company conducting business in the European... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
“start-ups are about speed to market. You get in there and learn and react quickly.” Kaplan grew up immersed in the plus-size retail world of the Lane Bryant chain, founded over a century ago by his great-grandmother Lena H. Bryant and owned and operated by his View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Milestone for HBS Alumna
Alvarez-Bjelland For the first time, the president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is a woman MBA from Harvard Business School. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (AB ’76, MBA ’79), who took office last summer, will focus her one-year term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
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Scaling Hope
his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and sharing his own experience of the recovery path. D’Antonio, who attended Harvard... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
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Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family line of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors. Corporate and Family Governance: The Two Disciplines That Carry View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, “my family thought, ‘Hurray, he won’t see a kitchen again!’”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Sustaining a commitment to the environment
Paul Zofnass (AB 1969, MBA 1973) is a 24/7 environmentalist who embraces the synergy between good business and the conservation of natural resources. In 1990 he founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, which provides... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
the Veterans' Administration and lived with a family friend whose nephew was a student at Howard University. Determined to go to college, she enrolled at Howard at age 22 with the help of a scholarship, student loans, and part-time... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
a scenic overlook and galleries highlighting post–Vietnam era Marine Corps operations. “It’s very inspirational for Marines to go through the museum and to educate their families about what Marines have done in the history of this... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
A tour of Plochman Inc. in Manteno, Illinois, features many of the sights you might expect to find at a business whose sole purpose is to manufacture mustard. In addition to a loading dock stacked high with pallet after pallet of bright... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
knowledge that takes place in the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center will develop better leaders who will gain greater understanding, insight, and wisdom to lead in the world of the future,” family patriarch Dr. James S.C. Chao told the crowd. View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- News
Behind the Scenes at an HBS Short Program
value of taking time for reflection. “But we weren’t just doing case studies about businesses winning or failing. We discussed dreams and family too,” he says. “Do you want cash or do you want to be king at... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
mother of three has been using her business acumen in a partnership with the University of Chicago through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC), an experimental school program Dias Griffin founded in 2010 that has now helped... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry
we have a mining industry in which everyone goes home safely to their family at the end of the working day,” says Carroll, the first woman and non–South African to lead the nearly 100-year-old company. She used safety as a way to... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
It is often said that two years at HBS prepares its graduates to lead a wide range of organizations and endeavors and to find solutions to a host of business and social challenges. Still, Kanwaljit Bakshi (MBA/JD 1999), known to friends... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
sleep, and my family didn’t have the medical vocabulary then to understand why I was convinced that meeting future global CEOs at HBS would help me change the world—just one amongst many other grandiose plans that characterize mania. My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
experiential learning, immersion experiences, and team-based entrepreneurial projects are all on the right track.” Dawson grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and was the first in his family to attend college. He majored in View Details