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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
economy is rooted in a technology of scarcity, like fossil fuels, and there’s not enough, you get what we have today, namely, impoverished outcomes for most of humanity. If you want a society of abundance, you have to build solutions... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Showing Girls the Possibilities
Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) is the former chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands and serves on a number of corporate boards. In this interview, she talks about another, more personal focus of her efforts and energies. “If I look for the common thread of... View Details
- 01 Jul 2000
- News
What Every Executive Needs to Know About Global Warming
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism can make a difference in View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising volunteer role—Investors Society class agents—that focuses on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
first-year MBA students encounter nearly a dozen cases that address environmental concerns. “My vision would be that all students graduate with a clear understanding of the predicted ramifications of climate change on society and on... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Harris took the idea nationwide by cofounding the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). As the NSBE approaches its 40th anniversary next year, its 400 chapters and 30,000 members make it the largest student-run organization in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
Japan Society of Northern California, based in San Francisco, and made friends with many recent Japanese immigrants. Before long, he found himself helping them get a foothold in their adopted country by revising their résumés, or advising... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday’s champions. Murphy places these troubles in a broad historical context, combining analyses of Japanese culture and society over the centuries with accounts of Japan's numerous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
When she joined the new private-sector team at Oxfam America as a freshly minted MBA in 2007, Roshini Moodley Naidoo was essentially given the following directive: All those great ideas we’ve been discussing? Make them happen. It was a bit more nuanced than that, of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
FROM SUCCESS TO SIGNIFICANCE: Kanter (at left) with several of this year’s ALI fellows. Baby boomers of the world, arise! Calling it “an opportunity to deploy people to fix the world’s problems,” HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter launched the Advanced Leadership... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Changing Student Life
"I'm actually an abstract artist," Jaja Jackson (MBA '99) told the Boston Globe (November 27, 2000), "but you know what? I was forced to go to school." That education — Harvard College, followed by a job at McKinsey, and then HBS — has paid off. Jackson is cofounder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Nohria Named Tenth Dean
Nohria Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office As the Bulletin went to press, Harvard University President Drew Faust announced that HBS professor Nitin Nohria will succeed Jay Light to become the School’s tenth dean. Current co-chair of the HBS Leadership... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
safety nets, it has marginalized pockets of poverty that will seriously threaten the future of the larger society if we don't unlock their potential for sustainable development. What gives you the most satisfaction in your job? In 1994,... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
protecting Adirondack parks, improving fishing practices—in his new book, Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, coauthored by conservation biologist Jonathan S. Adams. One of TNC's strategies, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
corporate scandals. Options for attaining personal, professional, and financial goals amidst momentous change in business and society were also explored. “Gathering in Washington provided a special opportunity to impart an appreciation... View Details
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. “Harvard changed my life,” said Jakurski. “It enabled me to look at risks in a completely different way, to not be afraid of really taking risks, of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
and controlling stakes in the company. “It seemed we were a big fish to eat, and everybody wanted a piece of us,” she told the audience with a wry grin, going on to describe how the three fought to keep control of the corporation. Resisting stereotypes in a... View Details