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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
hurdle of gaining admission to HBS, the vast majority must then begin to focus on their next major challenge: how to finance their education. HBS offers need-blind admission, and nearly 80 percent of MBA students qualify for financial assistance in the View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a community of health care providers
organized in the form of a company.” Among its many philanthropic and outreach activities under Thiry—who was the focus of a 2010 HBS case study—DaVita provided $1.75 million to charities in 1,000... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
industries, such as organic agriculture, grew up to serve these and other demands. And individual business leaders, experimenting with forms of social entrepreneurship, developed product offerings and built... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
Foundation, an HBS student organization that awards grants to small, community-based groups in the Boston area. "The trip really got me thinking," Miguel told a group of grant recipients gathered in April for an awards ceremony. "It was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
Edited by April White Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young “All organizations need great people. Veterans are great people, so all organizations need to hire... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
professor Sumantra Ghoshal. In The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, Nohria and Ghoshal assert that the traditional, hierarchical "spoke-and-hub" forms of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
Tiller. The three were cited for their role in forming and leading the Harbus Foundation, a grant-making organization established under the auspices of the Harbus News Corporation to support local community... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
In addition to the well-established network of HBS clubs in cities all over the world, a fairly recent development is the growing number of associations that have been formed around alumni interests. Over the past few years, two of these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
nearly two thousand alumni and guests celebrating MBA or Executive Education reunions. None of these activities would be possible without the generous support and commitment of our HBS volunteers. Volunteerism at HBS takes many forms but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
knowledge in the form of articles, speeches, and research projects and books,” says Bradach. Even now, despite the economic turndown, demand for these services remains robust as organizations struggle to do... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
cheerleading team free of charge. “Not unlike a startup,” Swearengin says, “a new nonprofit uses a significant amount of duct tape to hold things together,” including, in the early days, stacking parents and children in an end zone to View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t store enough power or are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
who've emerged as leaders in education reform at a time when charters have experienced rapid growth and decidedly mixed results. Together, they form a chorus: The charter school movement still has great promise. But it will take better... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
was in addition to my duties as an assistant professor of finance. The objective was to generate reader interest in the issues beyond alumni notes. We often did this by printing faculty members' thoughts on topics relevant to managers. We usually received these... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years.... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
and deprivation, NCCP is distributing about 500 learning resource kits and 300 emergency food bags to some 400 families each week. Considered an essential operation, NCCP is allowed to have its employees deliver these resources to families directly. The View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
that companies will increasingly understand a more subtle but equally significant benefit: embracing diversity helps revitalize and strengthen the organization. "The very act of incorporating diversity forces the organization to rethink... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
systems, the influence of cryptography tools and big data on financial services, the deployment of different forms of capital into Web3 startups, and the ways in which blockchain technology will disrupt businesses. Additionally, the... View Details