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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
year into her first A&R job at Def Jam, Simmons asked her to put together a soundtrack for The Show, a documentary featuring interviews with the biggest names in hip-hop. Dixon jumped on the phone. “I called Tupac’s manager, I called... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
schools. Next up is expansion into Sierra Leone, where 5,600 primary schools serve nearly 2 million children. “The solutions that we work with are particularly well-suited for the systemic challenges in sub-Saharan Africa: very large class sizes; huge teacher View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
international development organizations, and private sector companies. Nwuneli’s nonprofit, African Food Changemakers currently enables entrepreneurs in 29 African countries to scale, providing training and support, getting their products... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the glow of his smartphone, ONE FC... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
dysfunctional patterns from the past? How can I live more fully in the present? How do I create my desired future? Author Landon Carter shares his experience of what works in his more than 50 years of being on the path, and what has worked for many of the 70,000 people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
that he has seriously injured, and probably killed, persons of another race. “I have an anger problem,” confesses the soft-spoken Mike, who’s spent twenty years, off and on, in some of California’s toughest prisons. But now, with a job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
Europe during World War II. At the end of the war, he returned to Dayton and a job as a sportswriter at the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped humorist Erma Bombeck get her start at the paper. He earned his high-school diploma through... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
I cherish and enjoy! My job involves bringing in new customers, retaining and growing business with current customers, leading new projects, developing new products, spearheading new technology drives, meeting investors and stakeholders,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
off-campus at 48 Boylston Street (now JFK Street) in Harvard-owned Drayton Hall near what was then a grimy MTA subway train yard. From the apartment, it was a convenient walk across the Larz Anderson Bridge to the HBS campus. In the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Derek T. Ferguson (MBA 1990) could be mistaken for a minister by fellow commuters on the train from Connecticut to Manhattan. Yet his calling is not to the pulpit, but to the midtown headquarters of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
he will cut back on his hours at Morgan Stanley in order to devote more time to some other important priorities, beginning, he says, with his family. For years, de Chazal's demanding workdays have been bracketed by lengthy train rides to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
process? You can’t just ask for a job if you don’t know what you’re looking for. You have to do a self-assessment. The book has a worksheet so you can do that. The other key issue is confidence. Women have to realize that confidence is an... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
create job creators instead of job seekers through an entrepreneurship training program at the grassroots level? In a serendipitous twist, that same year, as part of an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), could create a lifeline for many of these low-wage workers, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Social Finance’s pilot program helps train low-income people for jobs... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
somehow victims. I don’t believe they are.” Describing his company’s mission as “helping organizations excel by leveraging America’s best talent,” the former Marine artillery and intelligence officer says military training emphasizes... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Brighton kids and coach celebrate a job well done. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Unsung Hero
where, with her banking and diplomatic skills, she became a policy advisor to the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designation Unit. She trains foreign government officials and bankers on procedures for preventing money... View Details
Keywords: Finance