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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
The Alumni Achievement Award is the School’s highest honor, first established in 1968 and bestowed upon only a handful of HBS graduates each year. That distinction, however,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
felt that I had hit my stride. I met my husband, started a family, and was achieving my goals more quickly than I thought possible. But it didn’t last. Sleepless nights, deteriorating health, a lost edge in the stock market, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
staff community projects program that organizes offsite charitable activities, such as Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Velocity rewards employees with $1,000 cash contributions to their charities of choice and peer to peer ‘flash’ View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital
at analyzing companies. While it was tempting to broaden his geographic focus, Memme also remained committed to returning to Toronto and dedicated his time to networking with HBS alumni in the area. By spring of his EC year, Memme was in... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 30 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)
have you been involved with the HBSLAA? The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) has been incredible. I was introduced to Gabe Esparza (HBS 2000) when I was considering applying to HBS and he’s remained engaged in my career and life to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
Hancock (MBA 2021). Straughn-Turner also worked closely with HBS Career Coach and Corporate Relations Director, Jonathan Shepherd, to access the resources, support, and education he needed. In addition, the Harvard Alumni Real Estate... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
job teaches you as much as being your own boss and making tough decisions daily. Even if my company does not achieve the impact I envision, I still gained invaluable experience. So truly, there is no failure in trying. To answer the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla
building. The challenges inherent in entrepreneurship get me up in the morning, and spike my adrenaline when those magical moments of achievement happen. So, I definitely want to be involved with building and selling products. My pre-HBS... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
Leahy as a parent and professional: she is building an iconic brand while doing her part to build a brighter future. The Lily Pad Strategy for Career Growth Achieving a CEO role is a goal shared by many HBS students and alumni, so we... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)
Helaina, Maude, and more. Our inaugural Female Founders Pitch Competition awarded $15K to the top three winners, amongst five final teams who pitched to 5 VC judges from firms such as Bessemer, Co-efficient, and Matrix, live on stage.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Parks Management is People Management
opportunities versus, say, a user-friendly software service) the mechanism to achieve it is quite similar. Particularly, the effectiveness of managers in setting a vision, establishing norms for communication and teamwork, and aligning... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
delivery.” At the conference, the alumni association announced a new achievement award to honor its founder, and now chairman, Bunny Ellerin (MBA ’95). The Beatrice D. Ellerin... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination
current market. I have felt that my biggest achievement while working on this project, has been pulling together seven very diversified team members from the Harvard Public Health School, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
President, Lovell Communications Former Astronaut, Apollo 13 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.S., United States Naval Academy, 1952 On... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
who skipped our placement test, and how to rethink the way we award experience points (or XP) for practice sessions - but no one told me how to solve these problems, or what the solution should be. Instead, I was expected to run analyses... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
exciting moments was in July; thanks to the great effort of the whole company to enhance online marketing, we started to get additional traction with brokers. Clients were searching for us! That was a great moment and of course we celebrated it! We are a small company,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
Founder and Chairman, Greenhill & Co., LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Philosophy, Yale University, 1958 On Leadership: “Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Kaplan Named Senior Associate Dean
2005, Kaplan was vice chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. with oversight responsibility for the investment banking and investment management divisions. He received an MBA from Harvard in 1983 and is a cochair for his class's 30th reunion campaign. 2012 View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Mexico City 1990 Receives Gold and Silver Medals, Rowing, Central American Games 1991 Earns BS, Economics,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young