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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
"South Africans expect a lot from the president," says Meyer, a recent graduate of the School's Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa (SEP). "They are looking for the presidency to improve day-to-day View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
John C. Sawhill Remembered
John Sawhill, a senior lecturer at HBS and president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, died of complications from diabetes in May at the age of 63. Sawhill, whose research focused on the nonprofit sector, joined the HBS faculty in 1997... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
Executive Education participants talk about their programs as a transformational experience," says Professor Das Narayandas, senior associate dean and chair of Executive Education. And not just because of what they learn in the classroom,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big, Madrick (MBA ’71), editor of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
others who lived with the opposite gender, showing that people who live in the same household influence each other's views of the pandemic. "You see families where everyone is wearing a mask or no one is... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
The Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise is embarking on a new intellectual endeavor to understand a fast-changing and fertilearena — the Social Capital Markets. For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of as charity, saysJed Emerson,... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now,... View Details
- Profile
Danelle Radney
community relations position she really wanted. So by the time Danelle folded her College Pro franchise, she had accomplished the unexpected. “It was the hardest thing I had ever done,” Danelle says. “But by the end of the summer, I had cleared $70,000 in business.” In... View Details
- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
Lesley Solomon (MBA 2004) is the senior vice president for innovation and chief innovation officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In this interview from June 2019, she discusses how she works to ensure that the work of Dana-Farber... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany a career transition from... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Jackson, Sr.; John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing; Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; and Stuart Alden Taylor (MBA '87), senior managing director at Bear Stearns. Interactive sessions explored private equity deal... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
argues Timothy Butler, senior fellow and faculty advisor to Career and Professional Development Programs at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on career decision making. In this interview, Butler discusses his new book, The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
[daily shooting schedule] with another senior actress,” Harden says. (The hit series, set in Monterey, California, costars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, and Meryl Streep.) “That’s crazy to me. Women represent... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
bringing learning opportunities to you, wherever you are within your career or life, has helped drive further changes to our traditional reunion model. For alumni who were unable to come to campus for spring reunions, we offered live... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- Profile
Sheila Marcelo
future. While carrying her younger son down the stairs, her father had a heart attack and fell backwards. Both survived, but the event instigated a crisis in care. “My parents had come to help us with child care, and I found myself worrying about both child and View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
noncore businesses, including a specialty chemicals group, and expanded significantly abroad, becoming one of the top U.S.-based pharmaceutical businesses in Europe. During this period, Merck also took the lead on a host of pressing social issues, ranging from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
Meaning. The book's author, the Reverend William ("Scotty") McLennan, Jr., was Trudeau's roommate at Yale and the real-life inspiration for his hard-working, ever-optimistic Doonesbury character, the Reverend Scot Sloan. A senior lecturer... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
following a bike ride with his wife, Julie, on Sunday, Jan. 28. “As he wished, my father lived life to the fullest and passed away peacefully,” Moon said. At the time of his death, Uyterhoeven was the School’s Timken Professor of Business... View Details