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- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
visible in college and at the workplace. Her father was a university professor and her mother worked for a media company. “I’m in media now, too, so that is really special to me,” Joseph says. Her father recently retired as senior vice... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
found to lead the organization, which helps high-achieving, diverse students from low-income backgrounds attend top colleges and universities across the country. Given the stakes of LEDA’s mission, Goldman realized stagnation was not an... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
came together to do something about the fact that less than 2 percent of available venture capital goes to underrepresented communities. Our goal with Impact X is to amass £100 million of investment capital.” Nova linguagem: “I was a Spanish minor in View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
play’s director (and Harvard College alumna), Diane Paulus, the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. HBSWANY co-vice president of programming, Kathy Murray (AMP 112, 1993) moderated the talk... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
at the tip of America's sword." A Yale College alumnus (Class of '86), Baldwin found the Navy the perfect place to learn not only about the importance of trust and teamwork but about the essential ingredients of effective leadership.... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
serve his country, but his father, a factory worker, convinced him to go to college instead. When he graduated from the University of California, Davis, he intended to keep his job as a city bus driver, but through a friend’s father, he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
rock-climbing course with my eldest son after he graduated from college in 1992. My idea was to get him to wake up to the fact that he had a lot more growing up to do. It was a real eye-opener. The lessons were clear and lasting to this... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
front of Kresge Hall. I married my wife, Barbara (Simmons College ’48), in April 1948. We moved in during the summer after her graduation, and I worked at the Boston Naval Shipyard as an engineer. I am sure it was torn down during 1948–49... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
relaxed way of life. And I was explaining my fascination with this part. So it starts like this. In 1989, a group of American students arrived for a study abroad year at Yunnan University in Kunming, where I was studying. They were from Oberlin View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
scholarship promise, affording graduating seniors access to $2,000 for future pursuits as well as an additional $5,000 to finish a four-year college degree. To date, more than 70 students have received an average of $3,300 in scholarship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) didn’t plan to become a businessman. The Canadian-born DeFehr always imagined life as a diplomat—until he ran afoul of the FBI. As a college student in Indiana, DeFehr had become involved in anti-Vietnam protests and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
Download Sheila Marcelo profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Manila, Philippines 1993 Earns BA, Economics, Mount Holyoke College 1999 Earns JD/MBA 1999 Joins HBS as Teaching Fellow 2000 Joins Upromise... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
desensitized—brainwashed—by Hollywood? I spent a lot of time thinking about this for a script I worked on for a movie called Beautiful Boy. It tells the story of two ordinary parents trying to understand—and escape—the fact that their son took a gun to school and... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
on." While Garrett continued to help various causes, she graduated from Smith College with a theater degree and moved to New York in hopes of launching an acting career. But she found a talent selling tax shelters over the phone, and her... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Foundation, which helps with companies working on water resource issues. This outbreak of entrepreneurship is the result of an influx of well-educated citizens to the city. From 2007 to 2009, more people with college... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 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