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- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Helping midsize companies achieve success was Donald K. “Obie” Clifford’s (MBA 1956) business specialty, but his passion was helping people understand their connection to the natural world. Clifford passed away in August 2017. Clifford merged his boyhood love of New... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
The cashew trees growing into a beautiful shady forest in Fass Koffe, a two-acre community garden in Senegal, are a sight to behold. “Visitors can’t take a step without stepping on a plant,” says Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977), chief operating officer for the Center for... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
Photo: Hensley Carrasco SEPTEMBER 17 The HBS Social Enterprise community welcomed first-year students with a welcome video which features insights and advice from students, administrative leaders, and second-year students. “The Kick-off,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
some have suggested. “For one out of five of these sales, the process is really just about transferring ownership of an ongoing, operating enterprise to another owner,” says Gilson. “That’s exactly what happens in the market for mergers... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 28 Feb 2023
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The Board Chair-Executive Director Relationship
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
Conducting an independent study project during his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA ’92) learned that many talented minority college students didn’t know much about the business world, and therefore leaned toward careers in law or medicine because those professions... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
In the course of an hour-long interview, Keith T. Clinkscales (MBA '90), president of Vibe magazine, drops close to fifty names. Those mentioned by this 35-year-old CEO of an enterprise that is considered "da bomb" (a high compliment)... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped in ice, he figured out that the goal of the View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 04 Apr 2022
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Tracy Palandjian Elected to Harvard Corporation
- 26 May 2016
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Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Download Thomas J. Tierney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, San Francisco, California 1976 Earns BA, Economics, University of California, Davis 1976 Joins Bechtel International, Algeria, Field Engineer 1980 Earns MBA with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
PROFESSOR DAVID MOSS As a graduate student in history and economics at Yale, John G. McLean Professor David Moss struck up a friendship with the late Nobel laureate James Tobin that changed his perspective. Again and again, Professor Tobin would remind him that rather... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- News
Bringing Art Into Kenya's Schools
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
Leonardo Letelier (photo by Paula Giolito) Leonardo Letelier (MBA 2002) was looking for purpose in his career when he launched SITAWI Finance for Good in Brazil in the mid-2000s. The nonprofit, an early participant in what is now called social impact investing, was... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. Since 2005,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
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Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and income-generation programs. As chief operating officer for the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Providing relief when disaster strikes
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Addressing the challenge of teacher retention in public schools
Melissa Wu (MBA 2008) explains her work with TNTP to research teacher retention patterns and best practices for America's public schools. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
cash and in-kind services. They are KNUMI, which is developing technology to enable "media content providers to create a highly interactive experience for end-users"; Sound MicroSystems, which is commercializing technology for the development of a silicon microphone;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
together a transportable lab that’s immune to the elements. “Weather conditions, power outages—they don’t matter to us anymore,” Kozachenok says. What does matter is advancing aquaculture, an enterprise that, when carried out poorly, can... View Details