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Global - Global Activities 2020

Global Operations, in the spring of 2021. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom exploded. The California... View Details

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

nonetheless. She cofounded Minds Matter, a now-nationwide mentoring and college preparatory nonprofit that launched her on a lifelong mission to improve public education. Named Woman of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2014... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president, Jackson Street Partners, San Francisco, California A well-known saying attributed to Confucius identifies the essence of life's journey: By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by... View Details

30 Mar 2015
News

Raising the bar to provide quality education

my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority children, whose choices are public... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

Back in 1974, Massachusetts native Ken Goldman headed for California to pursue a career in high-tech finance, figuring that while he might not find much glory, at least he'd find good weather. "The prestige jobs back then were strictly in... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Oct 2000
News

Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

For three weeks in 1992, Mario Corti saw the world as few travelers do. In a Cessna 340, he and another pilot took off from Southern California and headed east, making stops in North America, Greenland, Iceland, England, Scandinavia,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Profile

Stephanie Atiase

Stephanie Atiase’s passage from California to HBS was foreshadowed by an even longer journey: her parent’s emigration from Ghana to Austin, Texas, where they teach at the McCombs School of Business. Despite her family’s influence,... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

new initiatives, including the California Research Center (see the feature in the December 1997 Bulletin), an effort to increase the pool of outstanding women applicants to the MBA Program, and new Executive Education programs tailored... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)

performances throughout the Bay Area with a range of groups, including the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players. After majoring in music and physics at the University of California at Berkeley, he studied conducting at London’s Guildhall... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2017
News

The End of the Noncompete Clause

noncompete clauses at some point in their careers, according to a 2016 US Treasury Department report. But across the country, efforts are now on the rise to eliminate noncompetes. Spurred by the belief that their unenforceability in View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Herman I. Safin

HBS Show. Safin graduates with an offer from Siebel Systems, a fast-growing California software development company. His Edmund S. Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship requires him to spend at least two years in the republics of... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

having spent the first 16 years of his life alongside his family, moving from Mexico up and down the West Coast of the United States to harvest peaches, olives, cherries, and plums. He managed to graduate from high school in California in... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

01 Apr 2000
News

Deep in the Heart of Texas

elected Dallas Club President Kenneth P. Winslow (MBA '76) cites the special activities and informal networking that mark his club's events. He recalls in particular a July 28, 1994, outing at a Texas Rangers baseball game, where pitcher Kenny Rogers retired all 27... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Dec 2015
News

Euro Vision

million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week. He is in Berlin regularly and in View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges “Water is a human right. It’s shocking that the United States did not sign on to the 2010 United Nations Proclamation on Water and Sanitation, but View Details

Profile

Juan Pablo Moncayo

"I've always been a left-brain, right-brain person," Juan Pablo "JP" Moncayo says of his parallel interests in music (trombone and voice) versus science and politics. When he left his home town of Quito, Ecuador for college at View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Feb 1998
News

New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong

that solid foundation to ensure that Harvard Business School in the 21st century will be an institution where our interests, activities, faculty, and commitment are truly global in nature." Modeled on the recently launched California... View Details

Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

average driver out of their preferred shift is as bad as cutting their weekly earnings by more than 5 percent. For the California drivers that we study, the ability to start or stop working at any moment and the flexibility to change... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.