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- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
midwest and central us HBS Club of Chicago Mickey Freeman, MBA 1993 CEO Bradley Greenwald, MBA 1990 Chairman and founder Education Funding Partners public school funding new england HBS Association of Boston Stephen Kahn, MBA 1978 Sr. VP... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK since retiring in 2005 as View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
work. “There is some visceral discomfort with simply giving poor people money,” says Faye, now chairman of the board. “But the evidence, overwhelmingly, is that cash is one of the most effective ways of alleviating poverty.” In its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction writing a full-time pursuit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
position that would blend my creative and management interests. Although I love dogs, it turned out that marketing dog food didn’t provide me with enough creative exercise. So I sidestepped into working for the vice chairman of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
been particularly active) is a major factor in this phenomenon. Gaston Azcarraga (MBA 1983) is chairman and CEO of Mexico City-based Grupo Posadas (www.posadas.com), the leading hotel company in Mexico with operations in Brazil,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
York, and is founder and past chairman of the Nassau Land Trust and a former board member of the Peconic Land Trust. Zuckerberg says he thinks of his career as taking place within a triangle defined by social, business, and philanthropic... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
especially affected. In the wake of the attack, there are two central questions: What should be done with the site where the twin towers once stood? How will those decisions be made? Empowered to address those questions is John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), named View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
President and COO, 20th Century Fox 1987 Cofounds Castle Rock Entertainment; named Chairman and CEO 1989 Castle Rock produces When Harry Met Sally and Seinfeld 1999 Named President and COO, Warner Bros. 2004 Awarded Pioneer of the Year,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From 1997 to 2002, he served as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
struggle now with Beavis and Butthead. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Bre-X, Microsoft, S&Ls, celebrity murders, sexual politics, Berkshire and Buffett, and the Dow approaches 10,000 despite Black Monday. Ma Bell, Princess Di, The Duke, and View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a Sam Adams. The founder and View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning Incorporated, Wendell Weeks... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
production at the time. When I was coming up in the business, there wasn't any green light committee. It was really just the chairman of the studio decided what he or she wanted to get made. And he would hear input from everyone and make... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
Photo courtesy James Reed There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed—the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website—and he takes the company’s slogan, “Love Mondays,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
served as CEO of AEW’s Curzon Global Partners before starting Tristan Capital Management in 2009, a real estate investment firm with eight offices across Europe and more than 12 billion in assets under management, where Lewis is now executive View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
growth of the Nigerian business space, members of the Trustee and Executive Board, and this year’s award winners, among others. His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, GCON, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, served as View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley