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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
really powerful,” she says. A case in point, Ma relied on the alumni network to connect with graduates when she moved to San Francisco five years ago, and more recently to London, to prepare for her new... View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- News
A Fitness Industry Innovator Powers On
Monthly dues and 24-hour club access are nothing unusual in the world of fitness—but when Leonard Schlemm bought the San Francisco Bay Area Nautilus club in 1983 for $45,000, members were required to sign... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
San Francisco Frist (MBA 1997, MBA 2001) Family Financial Aid Fund “I received a small grant from a planned gift, and I’ve often thought how inspired it was so many years ago that somebody thought to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
the news with a record-setting trimaran voyage from San Francisco to Boston. Before long, I was on the phone with him, arranging an interview that produced a lengthy feature article in the December 1993... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
“Music is wired into us,” says Keith Cerny (MBA 1991). “Singing is something that is very human, and from singing, it’s very easy to go into playing instruments.” Cerny’s own connection with music began at age 10, with the San View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
spark his interest in a career that would use technology to improve society. Additionally, Tsai received an HBS Summer Fellowship in 2016 that enabled him to work on tech issues in the San Francisco mayor’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
Illustration by Chris Gash In 2011, Evan Marwell (MBA 1992) was serving on the board of his daughter’s school in San Francisco when he discovered something surprising: The school’s Wi-Fi was terrible. He was... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
that way.” After graduating, he spent a decade at the Hawaii-based Castle & Cooke, which was at that time a large agriculture firm that included Dole Food Company. Sprinkles began in the seafood division at Castle & Cooke’s San View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
You goal, girl
action, and the drama of competition," Love explained to the San Francisco Chronicle (June 18, 1999). Love, who publishes the magazine in San Jose, California, knows that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
over $10 trillion. Board Service HBS Community Partners of Northern California alumni volunteers participate in a brainstorming session with leaders of a nonprofit organization that helps low-income youth in San View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
ago that I realized the depths to which the public education system in California had sunk,” she recalls. “I was working seven or eight hours a week in my community. I had been on the board at a charter school in San View Details
- 15 Apr 2025
- News
Mothers of Invention
VC Backed Moms founders Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017), and Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) Illustration by John Ritter Early in her first pregnancy, having just launched the venture she cofounded, Lisa Marrone (MBA 2017) wondered how she could take maternity... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
didn’t set out to be magazine publishers or, for that matter, to even work together. Each married a classmate and went their separate ways upon graduation. By 2001, they both were technology executives in the San View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
"I had always wanted to do something in the community, and CP lets me leverage what I know how to do to really help an organization." After Jay Misra (MBA '82) and Kathy Salmanowitz (MBA '78) moved from San View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
we have animation and movies? We don’t. And the world has become so small that these movies flow all around the world in a very fast way through media and the Internet. I’m based in San Francisco but travel... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
Black alumni in discussions on leadership, social justice, and finding a way forward. San Francisco mayor London Breed (photo by Drew Altizer) San View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
San Francisco investment firm, he and Jan now spend twenty to thirty hours a week adding to the site from a spare room in their Menlo Park home. “It’s a passion,” Cook told the View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high schoolers in the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
best way to catalyze lasting change is to support people who are entrenched in local communities and will be there for the long term,” says Wasim, a managing director at the private equity firm of Hellman and Friedman. He currently serves on ADP’s board of directors... View Details