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31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

as spirited as it has been during COVID-19, offers significant potential now to help curb the carbon trajectory and accelerate a more sustainable future. Even with the disruptions from COVID, we’re seeing capital flows of over $500 billion in energy transition in 2020;... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

culture, including misogyny, racism, and online harassment—she might not always feel welcome. Sarah Bond (MBA 2006) turned to Spencer, her gaze direct, and said, “Phil, my aunt died yesterday. She was a colonel in the Army in the era of... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money

ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these refund dollars, which average... View Details

Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers

the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already have enthusiastic supporters determined to bring them to the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2009
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Prof’s Dream Comes True

option of purchasing savings bonds with tax refunds, 3,025 low-income tax filers bought 5,004 bonds worth $630,000, says Timothy Flacke, D2D executive director. “We can’t wait to see how many people buy... View Details

13 May 2013
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A Record Worth Stretching For

leadership—with the help of 61 fund volunteers—a new participation record was established with 74 percent of the class contributing. “Our class had a great experience at HBS and an extremely strong bond with each other,” says O’Brien. “We... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a bond issuer and you don’t like what one rating agency... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

13 May 2013
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Tied Together by the Times

says. And, as the 11 records that the class holds show, the classmates on the other end answer the call. Yanow believes the class's special bond is the result of his classmates' common experiences—growing up during the Depression,... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

questions early and often. Are bonds a good bet for those who want to reduce their reliance on equities? I have a lot of sympathy for those who are just getting into bonds now, but I still believe they... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2019
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@Soldiers Field

HAVING A FIELD DAY Above: Before diving into the rigors of the first-year curriculum, MBAs gathered on Harvard’s McCurdy Field to form lasting section bonds and establish cultural norms by participating in challenges such as the limbo,... View Details

Keywords: reunions; campus life; Finance; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
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Iron Lady

second largest in sub-Saharan Africa but far smaller than South Africa’s) and then declared that she would bring charges against some 200 other individuals and organizations allegedly involved in capital-markets abuses, the BBC reported (July 1, 2010). Oteh also... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Jun 2012
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Ideas

universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century, three View Details

Keywords: Finance; Manufacturing

13 May 2013
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Continuity of Commitment

Stacey Case is inspiring when she talks about the inherent bond between HBS alumni. Case recently hosted a get-together at her home in San Francisco for 1987 and 1988 alumni to meet Dean Nitin Nohria, where she spoke about how HBS is like... View Details

01 Aug 2019
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Investing for Good

arrangement to deliver social value and financial value. “The social impact bond allows government to transfer the risk of performance of particular social programs to the investors. So in the event of a project's success, the government... View Details