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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
NY Club’s Senior Program makes the connection It’s been a little over five years since Len Polaner (MBA 1954) and a small committee of like-minded alumni in the HBS Club of New York launched the first Seniors Program, a series of social and educational activities... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
first published in 1985, became a bestseller that went through 13 US editions. Eager for a second act, Clifford retired from McKinsey in 1984 at age 51 and started his own consulting firm, Threshold Management. He also joined HBS... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
the business of automating trading floors. In 1994, Ranadivé sold the company to Reuters Group PLC for $125 million; it now employs some twelve hundred workers and operates separately as TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. Rather than retire at the ripe old View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
how to get and use professional help; a rebuttal to family wealth models; a philosophy of family wealth; and challenges for wealthy parents and how to address them. Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption by Shane... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
John C. Sawhill Remembered
John Sawhill, a senior lecturer at HBS and president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, died of complications from diabetes in May at the age of 63. Sawhill, whose research focused on the nonprofit sector, joined the HBS faculty in 1997... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
are pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degrees. We really need about 70 percent of our students to be graduating with proficiency in a STEM area, and so it is very, very important that we prepare kids at this age... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
consolidating that structure. Congress outlawed mandatory retirement ages in 1986 (with exceptions for safety-related roles like air-traffic controller). Australia and Canada have similar laws. So in those countries, at least, retirement... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical models to accurately predict large-scale movements of history, sees an oncoming dark age that will last 30,000... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin’s Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. “I was clueless going into... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
that 43 percent of Gen Z adults over age 21 have never had an alcoholic cocktail, and about 45 percent of adult Americans don’t drink at all,” says Wood. “And 66 percent of Millennials are buying more no- and low-alcohol drinks. Those... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
approach. For instance, we collect mostly abstract paintings, but there are some three-dimensional objects that compel me. Or Lynette Yiadom-Boakye—she’s a figurative painter, and we’ve collected her deeply,” she says. Joyner’s connection to the arts was formed at a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
identify risks and issues, and develop the business case. The two-month recruiting process for the first cohort included reaching out to organizations such as Autism South Australia, targeting verbal individuals age 20 to 30, either with... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Ronald (“Bobby”) Escare is one of them. As described in a recent article in Harper’s magazine, Bobby can make $3 on a good day foraging for copper wire and aluminum cans. During the eight years that Bobby has lived in Payatas, three of his children — ranging in View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands - at more than $525 million. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, stores offer a full range of copying, fax, and mailing services, as well as computing and printing self-service, videoconferencing, and digital camera rental. View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
night and day, / towers rise as if to say / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health condition during their lifetime. More than half of those... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he expanded the operations, moving from bicycle parts to wool... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
being treated properly. Not being able to properly transport and treat waste has a wide scale impact. Forty-eight percent of all children under the age of five are undernourished because of bad sanitation. What’s more, India spends 15... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of prosperity and cosmopolitan... View Details