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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medication, to reflect the availability and efficacy of a test to guide patient dosing. Are there other countries that are making more progress on this than we are? Several single-payer systems have been more aggressive in personalizing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
dilemmas, especially in the age of AI and technological interventions; insight into groundbreaking medical advancements; and guidance for navigating the grief, confusion, and resilience that accompany this journey. Written with heart and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
entrepreneurial kind of thing: you come up with an idea one day, and suddenly you jump off the cliff with it.” As the proficiency deadline approaches in July, Mikitani says employees “are progressing better than expected.” He credits HBS... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
four-year colleges.” Raised in a low-income community in southern New Jersey, Huebner experienced firsthand the difference in her public school college preparation with that of her fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. “Had it not been for a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
company representatives, the first of its type in Peru. Meeting with Anglo American executives. While Carroll is proud of the progress Anglo American has made within its mining communities, her reputation has also been built on strong... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
autonomous-driving technology obviously could have incredible societal benefits. Building a safe, self-driving car is the greatest engineering challenge of our lifetime. I think we’re going to get there sooner than we think, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
was shocked by their advice. “They said, ‘Try three Advil a day. It might help. There are a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had spent 40 years as eyewitness... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
mission of democratizing finance, what do you see as progress toward that goal? What are the signs or data points that you watch? Some of the clearest measurements we track are the level of participation within the US markets and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
aware of the links between entrepreneurship and technological progress. He saw the work of his company as bringing together two elements of enormous significance. "One of these elements," he said in 1966, "is modern technology, which has... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
businesses from focusing on environmental work since then." Progress has also been hampered, he notes, by conflicting values between rich and poor nations that repeatedly surface in the international environmental debate. "One prominent... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
exports to the rest of the continent are up, and foreign investment has increased. Although progress is sometimes disappointing and many challenges are still ahead, South Africa is nonetheless seen by investors from all over the globe as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
that was in scarce supply, as Khoja and his team worked under the six-month deadline. “We’d have a huddle session every day at 7 a.m. and say, okay, what do we need to do to get to launch?” he recalls. “It didn’t matter who did what—we’d assign that day’s tasks and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa's challenges, Sachs noted that the fates of the temperate and tropical zones are intrinsically linked, that information technology will be a tremendous help in overcoming many difficulties, and that the reliance on natural... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Nohria after stepping down. “They truly are the measure of the School, and I am deeply grateful for their wisdom and their support. So much of the progress we made together during this last decade can be linked to the strength and talent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
made great progress in catalyzing industry interest in PD. I’m proud that the MJFF is helping reshape the way medical research gets done and is considered a model for other disease-fighting organizations.” The single largest funder of PD... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
are committed to making progress both in working sessions and between meetings. Here is a status report on each committee. Global Alumni Issues This committee is looking at the results of a survey of international alumni, trying to... View Details