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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
foreseen that the insights and problem-solving strategies they would gain would soon help them deal with the profound challenges posed by the pandemic. “The timing of the Leading People course I took in October 2019 was particularly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
And it makes even less sense today than ever before. There was a recent Gallop poll that showed that 96 percent of college presidents say their graduates are ready for the workforce, and 11 percent of employers agree. We see this all the View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
It’s no secret HBS graduates are a hard-charging bunch who sometimes find it hard to take time off. Most eventually learn how to do this so they can recharge to do even harder charging—spending time at a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
King Jr. at Selma and spent time at Kolonia Farms, an interracial community in Georgia that was the target of boycotts and violence. “It was a very moving time for me,” DeFehr says now. But when he returned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
the decision,” she says. “There were those who were quite concerned about the environmental impact and others with experience on the ground in rural India who spoke of the need for electricity in reducing poverty and bringing about... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
produced Time Warner. Technology-driven new entrants are also changing the industry and none more so than the Internet. Will the Internet eventually replace television as a major consumer-advertising medium, or will it remain a secondary... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
that you should. Consider corporate time horizons. It’s a choice to attempt to maximize corporate results over the very short run and a different and sometimes harder decision to take a longer-term view. I’m convinced that one of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened and wars can occur. I can't say... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Vivian Lu (MBA '95) has witnessed more than her share of harsh realities while working in the Third World, among them the gruesome sights of war-torn Somalia and the terrible effects of poverty in Tanzania. Nevertheless, her experiences... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
poverty for some 10,000 young people—and counting. Chertavian visiting a Year Up grad at HBS Chertavian visiting a Year Up grad at HBS Chertavian playing ping pong with one of his three children Chertavian playing ping pong with one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
feels like a fairly traumatic time in world history as a result of the pandemic, increasing vectors of inequality, and the looming threat of climate change. And at this moment, business is playing a strangely two-headed role. On the one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS exposed me for the first time to a truly interactive and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
achievements.” Then there was a piece on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Business section. The article opens with the story of how Tammy Strobel and her husband simplified their lives by selling their cars and moving to a... View Details