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- 05 Feb 2024
- News
What it Takes to Lead a Successful Turnaround in Health Care
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving business tools to small farmers so they can compete and succeed
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, runs business training programs for small organic and sustainable farmers in Brazil. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities for them—as evidenced in the connection made between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). From Brazil to Harvard A native of Brazil, Westphal moved at... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
women It's important to remember that HBS has been global from its founding: Our very first MBA class included students from Brazil and Canada. Today, 34 percent of our students and 42 percent of our faculty hail from outside the United... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- News
Sylvia Wachsner: Making A Difference
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
Named by his MBA section “Most likely to end up in People magazine,” Jeffrey A. Baron did so with a twist. He made People not in the United States but in Brazil, where his second play, Mother’s Day, received widespread acclaim. Baron’s road from working-class New... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Claudio Knizek “My goal is not only to lead people, but to lead by inspiring them.” Born: El Salvador, grew up in Brazil Citizen Of: Mexico Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German Stanford: BS and MS in industrial engineering... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Southern Exposure
Last fall, Dean Kim B. Clark and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright spent five days in South America, visiting three cities in Brazil and Argentina. Clark, Wheelwright, and a small delegation from the School were welcomed by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
infrastructure. "The question now is, at what point can we go over and host a game or something more formal than a clinic." Brazil First office opened: 2012 (Rio de Janeiro) The NBA held its first game in South America last October, with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
Reflecting HBS’s standing as the top school for entrepreneurs (according to the most-recent PitchBook rankings), the annual HBS New Venture Competition has helped Harvard Business School students and alumni launch dozens of new enterprises. Sponsored by the Arthur Rock... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
engineering and economics,” says Haddad, a native of Brazil who holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. “Participating in the OPM Program in the mid-1980s opened up my understanding to new ways of thinking.” In addition, then-Dean Kim... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
resident of Brazil who first demonstrated extraordinary leadership skills as a youthful commander in the underground resistance against his native Norway's Nazi occupiers, Lorentzen has made development one of his top priorities. And he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
recipient of $25,000 for TrophoMax, a producer of patented seed and leaf inoculants. Jonathan Assayag (MBA 2010) of the HBS Club of Brazil was a semifinalist for Lema21, an online retail channel for quality eyewear. An online poll named... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
United States and Brazil could do a lot more together. There’s a lot of potential for partnership. Books you’re reading? Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Snowball, about Warren Buffett. What’s the first Web site you look at in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
different ways to parse the numbers. Some examples: How many copies go to major Western European nations? Answer: France (1,029), Germany (785), Italy (336), Spain (334), and the United Kingdom (3,231). How many go to the fast-growing BRIC countries? Answer: View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 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