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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
world, though the words used for the numbers differ. If you're a chemistry instructor, whether in Beijing, Beirut, or the Bay Area, you can be confident that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. In business, however, things can be a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
alumni to work for over 250 nonprofits throughout the San Francisco Bay Area since 1986. Among the clubs that raise money for Executive Education scholarships, the HBS Club of Chicago since 2004 has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
in the San Francisco area. He is president of The BASIC Fund, which provides scholarships to Bay Area inner–city children to attend private schools. The proceeds from the Rock gift to HBS will be used to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
the United States,” she says. “This event gives us credibility—I once heard someone say this is one of the top three major events they go to every year in the Bay Area that relates to venture capital. And it... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
potential to change how doctors diagnose and treat neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s. Samzelius and his team at NeuraMetrix, based in the Bay Area, had been studying typing cadence, measuring how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
gap here between what people could be doing if they had the tools,” Liang says. The Question: Liang launched Bopsidy in the Bay Area because she was already well connected with its dance community. Those... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
I live in the Bay area. I love to get out and run, and bike, and hike, and I think that those are kind of the real kind of head-clearing opportunities and yeah I have a lot of revelations in long showers. My wife isn't super happy about,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
school, and as a volunteer coach for the Bay Area Warriors, a nonprofit I cofounded that draws inner-city players like those I had in Chicago. Many of the challenges are the same too: In 2010, one of our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Northern California (HBSA/NC) has been providing free consulting services to nonprofits since 1986. It was also the inspiration for other HBS clubs nationwide to start similar programs. The Bay Area... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
development capabilities, ability to attract talent to teach, and growing the market to include the Greater Bay Area of Hong Kong. It ended with insightful parenting tips from these professors to our... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
instrumental in setting up the Center. Sahlman has identified four characteristics that make the area unique: the rapid pace of change, a highly evolved infrastructure, a culture of entrepreneurship, and extraordinary efforts by and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
are driving electric adoption While electrification of SUVs and light trucks remains a challenge, some of the very largest people movers have already made the leap. Ryan Popple (MBA 2006), CEO of Proterra (and former senior director of finance at Tesla), a San... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
extend their education, and develop workplace skills. They also receive support in personal areas where they need it, such as mental health, addiction recovery, and parenting. A Partnership Is Born Anderson’s own path was shaped by her... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
and moved down to the Bay Area and did some work as an entrepreneur-in-residence at SoftBank before starting my second company, People PC. Our focus there was really to democratize access to technology. At... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Leeuwenhof, the majestic estate of Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel. With the splendor of Table Mountain above and the beauty of Table Bay below, Morkel welcomed his guests to Cape Town, which he described as "a region of great economic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
of organizations. Topics covered include the role of a leader, how to handle layoffs, and cost reduction. APRIL 22 Several Boston area hospitals and care facilities have received shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) with help... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- News
Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Palm Beach, and Miami as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Four Seasons Hotel in Miami was the setting on February 24 for an evening presentation and reception, enabling nearly 150 alumni from Miami and the surrounding View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
into an $8 billion behemoth 10 years later, and most recently leading a massive turnaround at Hewlett-Packard—Whitman has left her beloved Bay Area for a stand-up desk in Hollywood’s media district. There... View Details