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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as... View Details
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
for her 10th Reunion, says that giving back to the School “is a way to contribute to a tradition of education that transforms people’s lives.” Her decision to designate her support for entrepreneurship and innovation reflects her belief... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
New Executive Education Programs
HBS Executive Education is offering a number of programs designed to address the challenging global economy and to keep executives at the cutting edge of business thinking. Taught by senior HBS faculty, recent additions to the program... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course. “I was interested in entrepreneurship, but I didn’t think that I was cut out for it,” says the Princeton economics major. “FIELD 3 took down a lot of the barriers.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
purchasing costs of the spices by as much as 30 percent, savings it passes on to consumers. The Seeds of Agribusiness In the 1950s, agricultural economics professor Ray Goldberg went to his dean at Harvard Business School to pitch a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Rebecca Henderson, the Business and Environment Initiative is designed “to deepen our collective understanding of the environmental challenges confronting business leaders and to help them design effective... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
After an eye-opening experience as a volunteer mentor, former auto executive Susan Schooner (MBA 1983) launched Girls Group, an organization designed to economically and emotionally support middle and high... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
he serves as faculty chair of the Focused Financial Management series, a set of targeted executive education courses, and designs and teaches an annual course for executives on private equity. Before earning a Ph.D. in View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
power and influence. "The issues discussed had wide relevance," observes program chair Willa E. Seldon (MBA '86). Adds Wilkinson, "The dialogue took advantage of shared experiences from the vantage points of early- through late-career stages." He notes that the entire... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
still time to register; interested alumnae can find details at the HBS Women’s Association website. Connecticut Club Explores Behavioral Economics with HBS Professor John Beshears The HBS Club of Connecticut hosted HBS Professor John... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
strong economic potential. But when it came time to search for an entrepreneurial opportunity in earnest, Thornton realized she didn't have to travel much farther than her own closet to find her niche. "As someone who wears a size 11 1/2... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
HBS professor Rafael Di Tella says he saw firsthand the downside of populism and the economic hardships of Peronism while growing up in Argentina. The country—and Latin America more generally—has a tradition of populist politics, he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
of her group and offered an overview of the strategic priorities for External Relations. Susan Gold, Senior Director of Special Projects in Alumni Relations, and Alumni Board President Paula Madoff (MBA 1994) followed by detailing a new model for the Board presidency... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
“The discussions forced us to think about complicated issues,” he adds, noting that there was never a right or wrong answer. “It gave us a systematic approach to thinking about difficult situations.” That’s exactly what the thirteen-member faculty View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
stage in the early 1990s, the computer industry's balance of power -- economic and strategic -- was changed forever. As Baldwin and Clark explain, "The architecture of modularity partitions designers' efforts and efficiently coordinates... View Details