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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
(MBA '99), aims to help farmers pool their orders so they can make bulk purchases at lower costs. "Everyone thinks that farmers are unsophisticated and have no ideas," Grippo said in the January 5 article "Online Agricultural Sites... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Comings and Goings
A snapshot of the MBA Program’s newest recruits reveals that this year’s incoming class — chosen from a pool of 7,140 applicants — represents a select, diverse group of individuals hailing from 67 countries... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
article in The Harvard Gazette. So Badgaiyan teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for health... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
quickly, the School doubled funding for its summer fellowship program and opened it up to graduating as well as first-year students. These fellowships provide stipends to supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at nonprofits and... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
other. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are selected from a pool of active and committed volunteer leaders, represents the global HBS alumni community. Members serve as a resources for the Dean, faculty, staff and students by providing... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
returns, with the goal of making a difference in important societal issues. That’s an extended form of philanthropy in my view, and I think you’ll see a bigger pool of capital engaged in that way. We also expect to see the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal (both MBA 2020) arrived at HBS with an idea driven by necessity. With student loans a hard reality of graduate student life, why not bundle their loans with those of other incoming MBAs and pass the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
than 60,000 financings dating back to 1987, representing some 98 percent of the pool of deals in that period. Coats calls it “the most complete and accurate database of US-based venture capital financings in the world.” In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
College Daze
UPromise, a family of typical income and spending patterns might accrue as much as $50,000 after fifteen years of participation in the company's program. "Finding money for college is one of the biggest problems families face these days,"... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
focused on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions. Yet they achieved both distinctions in May 2021 with the launch of MPower Partners, focusing on what they considered an untapped pool of talent: young entrepreneurs making... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
are based on merit and—unusual among graduate business schools—financial aid is based on need. In 1910, four Visiting Committee members launched an $850 financial assistance fund. Since then, the MBA fellowship budget has grown to more than $41 million, representing... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
A note to the 73 incoming MBAs moving into newly renovated Gallatin Hall: You are some lucky ducks. I tagged along on a tour of Gallatin led by principal architect Steve Erwin and project architect Patricia DeLauri, both of Shepley... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
centers. The intellectual capital generated by this research is transformed into programs and products offered in a competitive marketplace by Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). The income generated by these twin... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997) and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) (Photos by Susan Young) When Google announced a $100 million fund to expand skills training and job placement programs for low-income Americans, two HBS alumni were standing by:... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt In honor of his 50th Reunion, Robert Burt established a charitable gift annuity that will provide his wife, Lynn, with an income stream from Harvard during her lifetime and then View Details