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- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
but I didn’t have an appreciation of all the ethnicities that exist in the world — Italian, Russian, Polish, the differences between various Hispanic cultures. That was fascinating.” Harris says she came to Harvard with the intention of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
built his business up that way, and he prospered. But everything came abruptly to an end in China during World War II. We could very easily have just faded to oblivion as a company, but my father took over, moved the company to Hong Kong,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
from the London School of Economics but decided to forsake the predictable routine of law and work as an investment analyst in London and on Wall Street. At HBS, Varma pursued his dream of becoming the business manager of a Formula One... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised the investment View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of business plans from alumni starting... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
Paul Kennedy examines in his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of Great Powers — issues of imperial overstretch, fiscally, economically, and geopolitically. There are other reasons too. The events of the last ten years — the recent financial crisis, budget deficits, wars,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
with his thoughts at 30,000 feet because all the existential fears set in. I realized, ‘I’m never going to be a US senator.’ Then it struck me. If I can’t be in politics, I can be near it. I’ll go into media.” Turnaround: “The Atlantic was in View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
and asked what they were.The driver proudly identified the place as Harvard Business School. He said that the best and brightest young men came there from all over the world to study business.He commented that HBS guaranteed every... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy... View Details