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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
everything they do. As such, they represent the best in our alumni body. Exemplary role models, they inspire all who aspire to have an impact on both business and society. The 2013 award recipients are: Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
audience for your HBS Class Day speech, you have an extremely popular TED Talk, you're an in-demand speaker generally. In the book, you recount your first speech, though, as a fifth grader in Miss Davis's class. Can you talk a little bit about that View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
who came to look at Bulgaria as a potential destination for their investments. And we generally felt that we were part of shaping a liberal market economy in a way that very few people have a chance to do. Morrell: You've mentioned that, that View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
positioned to take advantage of other investment opportunities in China. Kuhns Brothers, his Connecticut-based investment bank, raises financing for Chinese companies, and his private equity firm, the China Hand Fund, makes investments in China. Drawing on his long... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its tenth year, the Bulletin’s annual student profiles have become something of a tradition. Faced each spring with a mountain of potential candidates, we puzzle our way through a dizzying array of View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior role,” she says. Still, Eberle Walker had never envisioned herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
later she defeated a seasoned incumbent to win a seat in parliament. Her experience led to cabinet positions including Minister for Ageing, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues, and Minister for Education, Science and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
[daily shooting schedule] with another senior actress,” Harden says. (The hit series, set in Monterey, California, costars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, and Meryl Streep.) “That’s crazy to me. Women represent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
excursions were Module 2 of the new, yearlong required FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course, which is designed to hone student skills in leadership, global understanding, and integrative thinking. “The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way
school systems that have achieved a high level of excellence overall.” To address this situation, HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education have launched a three-year joint venture with nine urban school districts representing more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe The HBS Alumni Board welcomes 22 new members for 2020–21 this fall. The complete roster is here. The Board is a representative group of 81 alumni from across graduation... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
high school years, but I had put it off twice to pursue other career options. I realized then that medicine required the same skill sets, and it also represented a return to service—a very personal form of service.” Cooper took a job as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly 500 asset owners and managers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
Boston-based Vertex announced in July that Reshma Kewalramani (GMP 18, 2015), currently the company’s chief medical officer, would take on the role of president and CEO in April. Jeffrey Leiden, after seven years in the role, will stay on as executive chairman. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
classroom represents the latest step in a two-decades-long journey that could be called “Building a Global Curriculum at HBS.” What began on a modest scale in the mid-1990s has more recently, under Dean Nitin Nohria, taken on greater... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- News
2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced
Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Alumni Achievement Award is given annually to a handful of alumni who represent the best traditions and highest aspirations of the School. For more than 50... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
officer; and me to head up the 70-plus-member Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force. It represented a cross section of our community—MBA students (including the three African American Student Union copresidents), doctoral students, faculty,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)
Above: Zhang and the popular “Tao Doll” figurines that represent Alibaba’s e-commerce platform. (photo by Christina Gandolfo) I joined Alibaba in 2008 as part of its strategic investments team. I never thought that one day we would have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna