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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered
industry. In 1950, he became director of industrial and public relations at the Atlas Chemical Company in Wilmington, Delaware, before joining the HBS faculty six years later. A memorial service will be held in Pennsylvania this spring.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley For Hal Brierley (MBA 1968), Harvard Business School changed the direction of his career. He arrived at Soldiers Field assuming he would combine his BS in chemical... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
husband, Nathaniel (MBA '85), have two sons. Born and raised in New York City, Thierry G. Porté (MBA '82) began his career at Chemical Bank in Paris, France, his parents' native country. Since 1979 he has worked for Morgan Stanley in New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
program and found a study group of alumni—especially Tom Shaffer (MBA 2005)—who were impressed with my poetry and writing. Their support during the pandemic helped me write Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health—part-memoir,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Founder and CEO, Year Up Download Gerald Chertavian profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Lowell, Massachusetts 1987 Earns BA, Economics, Bowdoin College 1987 Joins Chemical Bank 1992 Earns MBA 1993... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
and COO of Rohm and Haas, the largest specialty chemicals company in the United States. The longtime Philadelphia resident, who started his forty-year career at Rohm and Haas as an engineer, says he was ready for retirement but felt no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in chemical engineering, believes SA presidents must be able to form a bridge linking students with faculty and administrators. “Part of it is being able to match student requests... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
Walter Shipley (AMP 73, 1976), the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank, died on January 11, 2019, at the age of 83, prompting a flood of fond remembrances in the media. Over his 40-year tenure, Shipley is... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Agent of change
varied path for the Lafayette College chemical engineering major and former process engineer at Proctor & Gamble. "I really enjoy new challenges," says Skovran, who credits HBS with preparing her for the position she has accepted at Bain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that controls the economics of direct-air... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New York–based startup recruited her in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Harold M. Brierley (MBA '68), chairman and CEO of Brierley & Partners, describes himself as "an accidental entrepreneur," having entered HBS as a chemical engineer planning to pursue a management career in the oil industry. "HBS... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula that brings shrunken sweaters... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
markets in large systems outside the United States. Never has a single deal so formidably shaped a major national industry. What themes will you explore in your next book? Originally I had conceived of writing a single volume devoted to the consumer electronics and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene glycol (a chemical found in... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
intelligence to help or hinder human progress; University of Montreal Daniel Jutras who elaborated on the implications of these new stakes on younger generations; and Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, who described the concrete steps required to pivot the industrial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley