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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- News
Leading Schools that Change Lives
Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) studied business at Harvard and has a psychology degree from Boston College. But in a career spent leading schools that transform students’ lives, he also draws regularly on his training as an EMT. “It’s all about triage,” says Kennealey,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
A Class Notes correspondent for ten years and counting, Shoshanah (“Shosh”) Cohen came to her 10th Reunion first and foremost “to find out what everyone's been up to.” Second was for an event that she helped to organize, a panel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
the inception of the Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And, really, the interest is global. What do you think is behind this rise in scholarly attention? Two things. The first is that people... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
disseminating their ideas to a broader audience. One product HBX plans to launch next year is a suite of pre-MBA courses drawn from HBS's pre-matriculation and Analytics programs. It will be designed for serious and committed learners, typically undergraduates taking... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Radcliffe in 1965, the Chicago native began her career as a technical writer for several Boston-area computer consulting companies before deciding to pursue business school. Her entrepreneurial streak emerged the summer after her first... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
more than $500 million, Esquel makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world. Guiding the firm to such prominence has been Margie Yang, a combination of energy, style, and determination who gave up her job at View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
being developed by a tiny company in Massachusetts; her investment in Summit Technologies helped the company to become the first FDA-approved LASIK technology provider. Laser eye surgery is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. "When I... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
sharing information on what to expect.” YAM is an asset to companies that want to recruit from the diaspora of African talent that has gone to the US. “Now people reach out to us to recruit,” he says. “Every month we send out a newsletter, and in each one we probably... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
When Mark Stevens (MBA 1989) first heard about HBX, he immediately recognized its potential for providing a transformational learning experience for participants around the world. "I understand the impact you can achieve by creating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
perspective, the great opportunity is to build products that delight people across the globe, but also to create jobs and opportunities for people to explore their creativity and change other people's lives. “I was very lucky. I started... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
recalls. After a fruitless search, Coats gave up on asking and partnered with Kienzle and others to dig up the data themselves. In 2006, Coats enlisted a board of advisors, including HBS associate professor Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and quit his VC View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Balancing Act
women role models and mentors in business, being in charge came with the responsibility of fostering other women, starting with a gender-balanced executive team. The first step was sharing her plan with her employees and listening to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
position at First National City Bank to work to put more women in leadership roles and to serve as a spokesperson on women's issues. Even with Nixon's backing, significant pressure against her came from inside the administration. For... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
startup pymetrics, solving the bias problem meant first acknowledging that humans are the most biased decision-makers of all. As a neuroscientist who spent 10 years studying the bias systems wired into our brains, Polli knew that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
policy. The Class of 2000 will be the first to reap the benefits of the SA's hard work: prospective employers will be prohibited from asking students to disclose their grades. Equally satisfying for Tatum was the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell