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- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had moved to pursue educational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
fortune." "I saw no reason to hold off until I was older or retired to share my good fortune." After college, Rauner wasted little time enrolling at HBS, entering the School at age 23. Midway through the second year of the MBA Program, he... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
“golden age of the experience economy,” according to David Askaryan (MBA 2015), founder and CEO of the Museum of Future Experiences (MoFE). It taps into a very basic human instinct, he says. “You could look at any number of ancient... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
plant from the age of 16. He emphasized the importance of education, and thanks to my mother I could write cursive and read before I started kindergarten.” Pivot point: “I was nearly two years into a PhD in electrical engineering when I... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
past year by BEI to explore the role of business leaders in the age of climate change. The event featured a keynote address by Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, titled “Reimagining... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
From Baker Library: Understand more about the needs and demographics of the aging population of the United States, and explore the costs associated with long term care. Have a pricing/selling challenge similar to Wellthy’s? Read HBS Cases... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
University, she wanted hands-on experience and accepted a job managing a Pacific Bell call-center with 25 union employees, all of whom were older than Markowitz: at age 21, during her first week, she had to fire an employee. The job was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
one-year stint ended, Tierney joined the corporate finance division of White, Weld & Co. in New York and settled with his wife and three children in Connecticut. At White Weld, he developed a department that focused on transportation industries and, at View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
at Harvard Business School. MBA in hand, he arrived at P&G at the age of 30 as an assistant brand manager for Joy dishwashing detergent. A variety of other assignments followed, such as helping turn around P&G's beauty products business... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
studied. "I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?' And in typical fashion, he got a bit short with me and said, ‘Your tribal corn.'" Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
working really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” No one is perhaps better suited for the task than Jones, whose passion for both law and business set her on an unlikely path to the SEC. “My career wasn’t linear,” says Jones, adding that she’d wanted to be a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
when half of us are held back. The data are clear: Empowered women transform societies.” The discussion was moderated by Jennifer Openshaw, a MarketWatch columnist and the CEO of Girls With Impact, which she co-created with Applegate. Girls With Impact teaches girls... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
curriculum? In the past two years we have seen an exponential growth in the number of field studies. Last year there were over two hundred different field study groups of between three and five students. There were also two new field study seminars: Women Building... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Iceland for eight years, said that there were children in Iceland under eight years of age who believed that only a woman could be president. Just imagine the possibilities! What led to the formation of the CWWL? As I interviewed these... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
technology and listing a record number of foreign companies. After Donaldson left the NYSE in 1995, stints at DLJ (as a senior advisor) and Aetna (where he turned around a company suffering from ill-conceived acquisitions, class-action suits, and government... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
is emerging, and Monaco has to continue to be this magical place where people come to build their enterprises.” EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Leadership in the Digital Age Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS HBS Curricula... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
us.” One solution in healthcare, says Deffarges, would be to expand Medicare so that people of all ages can enroll through an age-tiered process. “Let’s take what works and offer it to everyone.” Approaching these problems from the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
volunteering. My siblings and I started volunteering at a very young age and I've continued to do so my whole life," she says. At All Souls, an Upper East Side feeding program for the neighborhood's neediest families, Garrett has done... View Details