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- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
worked at Chemical Bank and MasterCard after receiving her MBA. Raised as a Quaker with a life-long interest in service, in 1994 she began working at the All Souls Soup Kitchen and for the next 19 years she took a leadership... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
almost two decades in marketing at Chemical Bank, before quitting to try her hand at real estate in 1987. Then came that year’s stock market crash, which precipitated a six-year tumble in housing prices as well. “I decided if I could make... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides in five important row crops: corn, rice, soybeans, cotton, and wheat. They coat seeds with these beneficial microbes to reduce the need for irrigation, increase resiliency in... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
on the payroll, the Nature Conservancy isn’t shy about offering its science-based expertise to help corporations soften their environmental footprints. Dow Chemical and British Petroleum are among its corporate partners. Tercek’s bottom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Carson and the New Yorker magazine, which had published the work in its entirety over three issues. During the summer of 1962, Carson’s critics initiated a series of counterattacks, with the chemical industry leading the charge. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
to Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals firm, where he is general manager of the Performance Products Business Group. He believes his Taiwan experience demonstrated his ability to adapt quickly in new situations, making his new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the conference, which is jointly... View Details
- 15 Aug 2015
- News
Victoria Tsai: Skin Secrets of a Geisha
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Terceros, HBX Live participant, chemical engineering administrator “HBX Live felt like a real classroom, or even like an enhanced classroom. The experience is so well designed and supported that I felt like I was sitting in the same room... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
case-method curriculum broadened my horizons and expanded how I think about problems,” says the Baker Scholar. “I gained the discipline to strategize and think longer term.” Burt would go on to lead a distinguished career, retiring in 2001 after a decade as chairman... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
director of the Irish Seafood Producers Group. Born and raised in Ireland, Garvey studied chemical engineering and earned a BS from University College Dublin in 1976 and an MS from the University of New Brunswick in 1978. He has served on... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
Inhibitors of proteins that play an important role in cholesterol and fat metabolism, to be developed as potential therapeutics for the treatment of diseases such as metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and some cancers. A method for... 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 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and View Details