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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
implications for business. We stand at the cusp of very, very important changes in demography. For instance, more than half the people graduating from U.S. colleges today are women. In professions like law and medicine, half of the new... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
significantly since the end of the Cold War. Panelist Nancy Aossey, president and CEO of International Medical Corps, was a sophomore in college when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Her primary memory from that time was of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Alto house where he and Cathie have lived since 1967. “Helping our community is important to us.” Johnson was an elected trustee of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District for 12 years. It’s a rare person who can talk about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(my first), and we enjoy reading it to him, along with the Little Blue Truck. Construction Site on Christmas Night is definitely on our Christmas wish list. —Jeremy Schreiber (MBA 2013) Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
think we're really seeing amongst our students—and in colleges across the country—that students want to be on campus. Education in this country is part of a broader experience, so the test for us, and particularly for us at HBS and HBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
future investment bankers, consultants, and Fortune 500 leaders. "Hey, Stumm!" boomed a loud voice. I was astonished to see my Dartmouth buddies Giff Foley and Ken Wilson. Our last encounter had been at college graduation, when I watched... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
venture that's been heavy on your heart or to just think about how you want to leave your mark on the world. You have incredible resources at your fingertips and infinite possibilities, so take advantage!" In a Cornell Daily Sun interview (Rettig played View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
experiences at an early age, due to either an illness of their own or that of a close relative. "My family was politically active," Slavin continues, "and I worked on health policy issues one summer in college for Congressman Ed Markey.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
whom you hire and whom you fire—and when. It will be crucial whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate executive, investment banker, or consultant." CURRENT READING Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner When Judy Haberkorn graduated from Briarcliff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
near the beach on New York’s Long Island and became interested in the ocean and in environmental issues as a teenager. After college and a master’s degree from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, she worked with a... 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
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
tipping point where the idea of kids growing up healthy and going to college becomes the norm, not the exception.” Owusu-Kesse’s day job can be intense, and one way he unwinds is through music. As DJ K. Kess, he enjoys presiding over... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
of academic research programs and initiatives. For example, we launched an open and global "ideas challenge" to generate research topics around type 1 diabetes, with $30,000 in awards. Winning ideas came from diverse actors, including an earth scientist, a View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a deep purplish-red. Keen has taught a course on the economics of corn at Creighton University's Heider College of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
deliver the box. I don’t know a lot of stuff, right?” And what about those pesky people, in Sahlman’s conceptual framework? Sahlman likes to point to the example of Mitch Kapor, whose résumé in the early days—if indeed he had one—would have reflected an extended View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Not limited to college graduates or people in business, this book reveals practices relevant to anyone starting their career in an organization, whether it be nonprofit, professional, or governmental. From Startup to Exit: An Insider’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
mid-1990s, Larry Fondation, a community organizer in South Central Los Angeles and Tufano's Harvard College roommate, alerted Tufano to the plight of low-income wage earners who traditionally have been left out of the loop when it comes... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
to go to a good college (Carleton); you get a good job (General Mills); you go to a great MBA program (HBS); you take the highest-paying job you can get in the ‘hot’ field (consulting). That was the first time I actually thought about... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
the boards of Sarah Lawrence College (his late wife, Mary Lawrence Clifford, was Sarah Lawrence’s great-great-granddaughter) and the American Museum of Natural History, where, as a member of the Executive Committee and cochairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
green roof at Simmons College in Boston shows what the Shad roof will look like by the summer of 2011. Photograph courtesy Apex Green Roofs In Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, laws require green roofs on buildings with roofs of... View Details