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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Valleydene provided Barford with the flexibility he needed to spend more time with his ailing wife (who died in 1991 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis) and six children. Beyond the boardroom, Barford has been associated in various View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
assets by 2024. In the UK, we have built five wind farms and are now at the rate of building two large wind farms a year. We will have an installed capacity of 400MW by 2025 and hopefully double that by 2027 with new developments. My aim... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Breyer Elected to Harvard Board
China, and India. "Jim Breyer is one of his generation's most creative and admired venture capitalists," says Harvard President Drew Faust. "He combines wide experience in new technology and media with an expansive international outlook and an extraordinary View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“We want to serve the surrounding community in the most diverse way possible.” “Needless to say, an orchestra is not a factory. But thinking about fixed and variable costs and capacity utilization is incredibly important for what we do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden Auditorium on topics that ranged from the state of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Countries’ disease-surveillance capacity can be strengthened with support from partners and technical agencies, to go along with their own investment. Compensation for farmers could encourage early reporting of outbreaks. Without timely... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Teaching a Solutions-Oriented Take on the News
solutions journalism and describes how his organization is training journalists in its techniques. “I am president of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is a three-year-old independent nonprofit organization founded to build in journalism the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
Each year more than 900 MBA students arrive on the Harvard Business School campus eager to begin a two-year experience that promises to transform their lives. They have been selected because of their academic record, work experience, and a demonstrated View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
confirms the benefits of placing students in an unfamiliar, cross-cultural setting, with local people often the students’ only resource for grappling with the subject at hand. “It really gets into the nuts and bolts of addressing a topic in a hands-on way,” Piemonte... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
for HBS: curriculum innovation, internationalization, intellectual ambition, inclusion (diversity), and integration with Harvard. “The capacity to innovate was vital to the success of American universities in the 20th century,” Nohria... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Convening Power
Foundation. Both are also members of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors. In discussing their inspiration for the gift, Seth Klarman noted that HBS has a unique capacity to contribute to the public dialogue about effective and responsible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
ties between all of you and the School. The fact that I am the first non-U.S. member of the Alumni Board to serve in this capacity says much about the global orientation of HBS today. Having served on the board for the past three years,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
see what they could do. In the end, the group decided to start a school. “In 2003 I took what I thought would be a nine-month leave of absence from Corning to help establish ASMS,” she says. The school opened in 2004 with 20 enrolled students and is now at View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
respond by making this time as relaxing as possible.” Technology can help, too: Even before the pandemic, airports had the capacity to follow a passenger’s route through the terminal once they’d connected to the Wi-Fi. “It’s not that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
at home.” Futures market: “Australia is in its 24th year of consecutive economic growth; over the next 10 years I believe the country will achieve even more due not only to our mining and energy assets, but also to our capacity to harness... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
and John Maynard Keynes, who was a British economist and one of the leading economic thinkers of the time. Despite their differences, their assessment was remarkably similar; that is, how odd it was that there was no shortage of productive View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
governments and have the capacity to recruit people from all over the world who will feel comfortable in your organization. You have to make them feel that they can contribute. That’s the biggest challenge, I think. American companies... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
math whiz,” Traill says. “I thought he had all the capacity to be an engineer, but his environment didn’t give him the opportunity to make the most of his gifts.” Traill recalls his arrival at HBS as a dramatic culture shift and one that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in various capacities over the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young