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- 16 Aug 2013
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Women's Business Leader
Carla Harris Photo courtesy of Carla Harris On August 12, President Obama announced his intention to appoint Carla Harris (MBA 1987) to be the Chair of the National Women's Business Council (NWBC). Harris is a prominent global investment professional and business... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
bureaucratic difficulties in a country where laws were in flux, Frankenberg persisted in her vision to fill the new republic's information void. "Having total support from my investor made it possible," she says gratefully. Today, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big, Madrick (MBA ’71), editor of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opens in Singapore on June 25, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) will celebrate a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s point man, this first-ever gathering in Asia for graduates of all of the US service... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Anthony Harris Photo courtesy of Anthony Harris by Francis Storrs On April 14, 2013, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a truck cruising down Interstate 55 in Mississippi. What started as a routine traffic stop became more serious when the deputy noticed scratches around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), which... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen I remember watching the Kennedy-Nixon debate when I was five years old. In 1964, I distributed leaflets in my neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights, for the presidential campaign. I was nine and “all the way with LBJ.” I guess it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”
When Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (MBA 2005) outlined his citywide plan to address homelessness in September 2018, his approach included some time-tested best practices from cities with more experience grappling with the issue. Increasing emergency shelter options,... View Details
Keywords: homelessness
- 03 Dec 2012
- News
Anti-Defamation League Awards Highest Honor to Jonathan Lavine
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Law School and Design School, this year's conference hosted over fifty speakers from business, government, and academia in the United States and Asia. Panels focused on the economic future of countries such as Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
whose theme was "Asia at the Dawn of the Millennium." The high-powered gathering, held on campus January 2829, covered a broad range of topics and included ninety speakers from throughout Asia. The event, now in its seventh year, was sponsored by the Asia Business Club... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
Eugene Meyer, who acquired the newspaper in 1933, Graham graduated from Vassar and the University of Chicago and cut her teeth as a journalist in San Francisco before accepting a position as a reporter at the Post in 1938. In 1940, she married Philip Graham, a Harvard... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
"near-peers," helping kids to stay in school and on track. City Year was founded by Harvard Law School graduates Alan Khazei and Michael Brown with Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990). Similarly, health care could use paraprofessionals to... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
piece of technology that allows pharmacists and doctors and law enforcement to monitor how many prescriptions are being made out there, who's getting all these prescriptions, where are they going, what's happening with all the opioids out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer The government used to be America’s greatest innovator. Among many things, it developed or helped fund the creation of the Internet, GPS, microchips, and even Cheetos. (True story: The military’s need for... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Dec 2008
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Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at HBS on “Leadership: Advancing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid
It’s no secret HBS graduates are a hard-charging bunch who sometimes find it hard to take time off. Most eventually learn how to do this so they can recharge to do even harder charging—spending time at a beach, playing golf, climbing mountains, or the like. But Scott... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman