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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
percent of the worldwide consumer products output. Over time, ‘Made in China’ will become a very high quality stamp of approval.” — James Root, VP, head of Asia Technology Practice, Bain & Company Conference on Social View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS OnBoard with Professor Rangan
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977), president of the Washington, DC–based consulting company Bankworld, built I Create, a nonprofit organization focused on combating India’s unemployment crisis through entrepreneurship, in 1999. Since that time, 67,000 Indians have completed... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1969 Born, Mt. Pleasant, Texas 1991 Earns BS, Political Science, US Air Force Academy 1995 Awarded Doctorate, Politics, Oxford University 1996 Completes Flight School as a helicopter pilot 1998 Founds Impact Young... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 May 2015
- News
The importance of being a mentor
Throughout her career in the public and private sectors, Bonnie Cohen (MBA 1967) has seen both sides of the power of mentorship. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Katie Hood: Fast Forward Hood Hood and Fox In the hit movie Back to the Future, actor Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager in a hurry. Accidentally sent backward through time, Marty encounters a slew of nasty complications. (One of his main concerns is eluding... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. Since 2005,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and income-generation programs. As chief operating officer for the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Providing relief when disaster strikes
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the challenge of teacher retention in public schools
Melissa Wu (MBA 2008) explains her work with TNTP to research teacher retention patterns and best practices for America's public schools. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
Through UP Education Network, founder Scott Given (MBA 2010) is helping to turn around chronically underperforming Massachusetts schools by making and managing significant changes in all areas, from curriculum and schedules to personnel and expectations. In this video,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
The eldest in a family of six daughters (four of whom attended HBS), Elaine L. Chao came to New York City from Taiwan at the age of eight. She adapted to her new home quickly, learning English and excelling academically. Since attending Mount Holyoke and HBS, she has... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 27 May 2021
- News
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Awarded Honorary Degree by Harvard
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) was one of seven people recognized with an honorary degree during Harvard’s Honoring the Class of 2021 ceremony. Khan is the founder and CEO of online education nonprofit Khan Academy, which has some 100 million registered users and whose videos... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully pressing the group to include... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Get Involved
Alice Vilma (MBA 2007) is executive director of Investment Banking and Securities Dealing at Morgan Stanley. In this interview she share her perspectives on how each person can make a difference. “How I am trying to make a difference in the world? For me, at its... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 15 Feb 2018
- News