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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
Clark noted, initiated major changes in faculty development, committed unprecedented resources to research and the curriculum, and positioned HBS academic programs on the leading edge of business education during the years he led the School. "But this is just the View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
100 jobs. Many of them, specifically in Senegal, have been able to raise funding both from the public sector and also from private investors, angel investors, and VC investors. “Now, when you look at the private sector on the continent, you see that especially in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
Traditionally, most student honors at HBS have been based solely on academic accomplishments. This year, for the first time, several students were formally honored for outstanding leadership and exceptional service to the HBS community.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HBS Alumni in Harvard Leadership Roles
With new and continuing appointments, HBS alumni are playing key roles in the governance structure of Harvard University. In September, Theodore Wells (MBA 1974/JD 1976) was elected to the Harvard Corporation by members of the Corporation and with the consent of the... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
in the mutual fund business. An opportunity that in many ways you couldn't make up. Somebody came and went as the president pretty quickly in that era, and I sort of quickly replaced him. I was young—30, I guess—and formally became the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
MD/MBA Program Launched
Harvard’s new five-year, MD/MBA joint-degree program was formally launched at an HBS reception in November. Keynote speaker and Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989), who holds an MD degree, told his audience, including the seven... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
company, and location into a database and shared it with all the women. It was a valuable resource, but a database alone wouldn’t be enough, Hagemann reasoned. “If we launched a formal network,” she told Pent, “I think we could change the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
his new post as an account executive with Nike's largest client, Mont Blanc, the luxury pen manufacturer. His first day at work, however, everything changed. "The senior account executive invited me to lunch and told me she'd given her notice that morning," he recalls.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
is the United Arab Emirates, which formally introduced its UAE Space Agency on May 25, 2015, during the fifth Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi. The agency tapped Khaled Al Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011), an aerospace engineer with... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
reason is last-mile delivery challenges in a region where people often lack formal street addresses, a problem solved by UAE-based startup Fetchr, which utilizes smartphone GPS coordinates for delivery. Vitoria Ivashina, Lovett-Learned... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
could come even before any formal conversation begins. “When you are walking down the hall, the interview is already under way,” he notes. “That initial handshake, eye contact, and assessment of your energy, enthusiasm, and confidence... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
the Tao Shing Pee Education Foundation (TSPEF), and featured an online forum with two HBS faculty members, an in-person conference of panel discussions, and a formal evening celebration called the Crimson Ball. “The annual... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
How Scholarships Helped One Student Achieve Many Firsts
took full advantage of the opportunities available to her, and how her formal business education complemented the informal lessons she learned from the small-business owners in her family’s restaurant plaza. View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
pursued a looser, more flexible organizational strategy drawing on employees' experience with previous generations of products rather than formal training. Although these differences became more pronounced between 1985 and 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
“When you are a startup, you need to trust your business acumen. But when your business grows to a certain size, it’s no longer about gut feel. You really need to know how to read the numbers, look at the data, and ask smart questions. You need a certain View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Recent HBS Campaign Regional Events & Alumni Gatherings
Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969) attended the reception. 5 Daniel Rutz, Marie-Anne Popp (MBA 2002), and Dean Nitin Nohria visited at the reception that followed the evening’s formal program. 6 HBS’s Burden Hall (shown here) and Shad Hall were the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up for Grabs
WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September and formally declared that she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is acting as a View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Having a Ball
and social service organizations, Stafford, who grew up as one of twelve children of a Baptist minister, invited his guests from all over the country and provided beauty treatments and formal evening wear for two gala balls he organized... View Details