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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
HBS Clubs Host Faculty Speakers
More than fifty HBS clubs have scheduled special events through 2008 as part of the School’s Global Outreach Program. The program will send faculty around the world to talk about their research and help celebrate the Centennial. See a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
cellphones, their real impact may be in the development of electric cars. Drivers could recharge their vehicles overnight by parking them on special mats in their home garages, thus avoiding the often-cited inconvenience of having to plug... View Details
- 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
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
crafting Senegal's post-pandemic economic recovery plan and an emergency youth-jobs plan; working with the country’s health ministry to set up a local vaccine manufacturing plant; securing vaccines for the country; helping to obtain concessional financing, especially... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
Citigroup; Professor Joe Lassiter (Moderator); Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), CBJ Energy; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), Inherent Group; Chloe Kiernan (MBA 2008), HBS Club of New York Pointing to evidence such as the latest IPCC Special... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
leadership skills we’re looking for, and we trust that you’ll learn the industry.’ They were willing to take the risk that I might fail.” To the contrary, he helped turn around lagging operations and rose to become president of GE Financial Assurance Direct, View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
size, scale, and scope. Today, we see a specialization in activity: There are those who are really good at supporting large numbers of relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs, and then there are those that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
combine his undergraduate training as an industrial engineer with his business knowledge to become a securities analyst specializing in the chemical, drug, and paper industries. He then managed Rothschild's research department, viewing... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
present to their boards of directors, which were made up of two-to-four alumni. The team in Spangler 205 included Pieterjan Goedertier, Ben Samuels, Rachel Blank, Ambuj Kashyap, Jenn Volk, and Amy Shah as the student management team and Brit Dewey (MBA 1996), managing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other sorts of workers. These people help build communities and keep them stable and functioning; they deserve to be able to live where they serve." Build It and They Will Come With the federal government's involvement diminishing,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Enterprise Initiative at HBS and oversees the Leadership Fellows Program. “I’m thrilled to help the next generation of leaders across the public, private, and non-profit sectors think deeply about how they can make a difference in the world,” says Segneri. “And I find... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
While some people end their careers with a focus on philanthropy, Bob Higgins began his that way. After graduating from HBS, he spent nine years with three different private foundations, each with a deep interest in health care. Today, Higgins View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
children. “We need to ensure that India’s children have access to quality education to help them realize their true potential,” says Mittal. The foundation has also set up specialized centers for higher education and research, such as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Fall Reunions
Members of the Class of 1977 were treated to a special presentation by Professor Joe Badaracco on "The Moral Leader: Fiction As a Lens on Leadership". Photography by Stuart Cahill, C.J. Gunther, and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons. More than twelve... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
ideas to the next level,” notes Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the program and the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Through courses in business and engineering, as well as specially designed... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
It's the night before the presidential inauguration and Washington's cavernous National Cathedral is packed to capacity. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as seven young men walk down an aisle and take their places on a center stage View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
dinner in honor of André Jakurski and his family at the Dean's House in October celebrated a remarkable relationship with HBS that began in 1971, when Jakurski first arrived at Soldiers Field from Brazil as an MBA student. The special... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
cofounding forty years ago of The Carroll School, which specializes in teaching children with language-based learning differences. He’s also active with his class at Harvard College (celebrating its 70th Reunion this year) and the... View Details