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- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New York University 1980 Earns MBA, Baker Scholar 1980 Joins Boston... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
entrepreneurship. In tandem with his business career, Bowes has advanced numerous initiatives through his family foundation, including significant support for stem cell research at Harvard. View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
A Category Leader
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) is founder of Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she talks about building her business model around providing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous. Every day in our View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
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A Sporting Chance
starting Harvard Business School in fall 1993. His mishap—a freak accidental fall—cost him the use of his legs and delayed his entrance to HBS by a year. But once there, he embraced the School’s approach of building deep general... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
for mental health, an organization that can increase awareness and reduce the stigma of illness as well as rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field, especially for youth. “What we want to do is apply... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Support for a Common Theme
Ralph James (MBA 1982) here with Patty and Lincoln Benet (both MBA 1989) at The Harvard Business School Campaign Regional Event in London. "HBS is part of the extraordinary Harvard community that serves the world in equally positive ways,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
Operations Chief Andy O’Brien learned from his intern, a Brighton player, that the team’s championship had gone virtually uncelebrated, Andy and others at HBS swung into action. The result was a gala dinner at Spangler attended by some 200 players, cheerleaders, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Florida's Walt Disney World®, this year marking 25 years of extraordinary entrepreneurial success, was the venue for the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management Program (OPM). Under the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Blessings, both by Rachel Remen, Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand, and Real World Photoshop 6, by David Blatner. Biggest disappointment That Ann and I didn't start our family sooner. Best business advice A... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
says, we're all about building a world that is 'just, humane, and environmentally sustainable.' " On this particular day, the petite, dark-haired Scher is wearing a business suit -- "I'm hosting a public event later today," she explains... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
that day it became clear that the familiar style of doing things at Harvard Business School was disappearing and that the institution - along with the rest of the country - would have to adapt to a very different set of conditions. (In... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are forced to pay bonuses and to bus workers long distances to fill essential blue-collar positions. Says Harvey, "Firms must respond... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the complexity of the paperwork, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
gaps.” The mother of three has been using her business acumen in a dynamic partnership with economics professors John List and Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago and Roland Fryer at Harvard University, through the Chicago Heights... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken