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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
depicts the cinder-block, fluorescent-lit, smoke-filled rooms of Korea’s Ministry of Economy and finance in Offerings—in addition to the personalities involved on all sides. The book became a bestseller in the United States and a top... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
big believer in focusing on the job that you do, and I’ve always wanted to be the best at whatever that was,” says Christou, who did well enough that he was soon promoted to assistant general manager. It was the first step on the way to a... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Relations Update The External Relations department outlined their efforts to support alumni in their lifelong relationship with the School, which includes exploring new models of engagement that marry faculty research on important topics... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
hand is all that matters. So often in business we are reflecting on the past or looking toward the future." The past, for the Ayala Corporation, includes an impressive history entwined with the Philippines' own complicated political and economic evolution. Representing... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
either to compensate or just to generate value in new avenues, in new ways beyond the product on-field itself? CM: On the business side, we're continually innovating. There's a little bit of that that went into this year where we have now... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
not share their knowledge or background. Joe Badaracco agrees. "You need a talent for simplicity — for saying things in a few words. General Electric's Jack Welch is a good example. He is astonishingly articulate and able to convey... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
her career in new directions and add greater value to the company, she wanted to broaden her insights, skills, and network, which prompted her to enroll in HBS’s General Management Program (GMP) in 2021, a decision made more feasible... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
culminated during the January term in Italy, where students learned about the roots of capitalism and how the renowned House of Medici devised accounting standards still used today. “The original economic miracle—the model of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fueling the Faculty Pipeline
associate professorship to support the School’s pipeline of faculty. “Associate professors are the future of the School. I want to support the next generation as they come along,” offers Melwani, who emphasizes the important role that HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
graduated from Harvard College. Her grandson Ordway P. Burden (AB 1966, MBA 1968, HLS 1971) represented the fourth generation of her family to be educated at Harvard and was attending HBS when the cornerstone of Burden Hall was laid in... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
people of Puerto Rico were potentially grave.” Looming ahead was a major payment due for the island’s general obligation bonds, which, by law, would have to be paid even if it meant cuts to essential services such as police and emergency... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
work ethic—“they didn’t care what we did, but everyone had to work hard,” she says—and her mother offered a model of public service, serving as chancellor of the Board of Regents, New York State’s governing body for education. But when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
making a generous gift to the School to facilitate the construction of a new MBA campus center, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000. The gift extends long-standing, close ties between the Spangler family and HBS. Both Dick... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
at an early age. These guiding principles have served her—and society—exceptionally well. “I have always enjoyed bridging worlds— across cultures, sectors, and disciplines. through social finance, i bring this sensibility to building new View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than a million households; and water and electricity payments for a portion of the population. It also included a financing and guarantee mechanism that would provide View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm
Meredith (MBA 2022) and Audrey. The Nelsons have long been generous donors to HBS. In addition to endowing the Anna S. and Thomas Nelson Associate Professorship, they have given to the HBS Fund since they... View Details