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- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
2018) (photo by Susan Young) RECIPIENT: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship Stefan Schmidt’s (MBA 2018) first airplane ride at 14 opened his eyes to the world and led to his passion for aviation. “I flew on a school trip from Germany to the View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
there’s £20,000 in the pot to match public donations. Hopefully they’ll raise the full amount, for a total of £40,000.” There’s another bonus: a UK tax rebate called Gift Aid, which adds another 25 percent to the public donations. In this... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
partner. In what proved to be a fortuitous stroke, Cohen then recruited Alan Patricof, a pioneering venture capitalist based in New York, to join the partnership. Under Patricof’s influence, the firm shifted focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts isn’t enough to ensure they... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fish Story
an uncommon gift to Mother Nature: less than 7 percent of total giving from the largest US foundations goes to environmental causes, with UK foundations giving only 3 percent. And while 15 percent of the world’s land is set aside for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
Supermarkets in Australia, and the media company ITV. Unsuccessful: The Conservative Party, where he served as an MP from 1996 to 2005. “While I was there, we became very good at losing elections, and politics in the UK is binary. Either... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Pandemic project: When COVID-19 hit, Thoren led a pitch to the UK government to create jobs for unemployed and disadvantaged young people, in restoring the UK’s depleted natural infrastructure, based on the US Civilian Conservation Corps.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
LD: It is heavily linked to the limited and diminishing degree of competition in so many health care sectors. RS: And we actually see that in the data. Researchers in the UK mapped the relationship between competition and management... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- News
Freedom to Explore
former president of the HBS Alumni Association in the UK and organizer of the 2005 HBS Global Leadership Forum, explains that the School gave her the confidence to succeed. “HBS showed me the right path. I’m an entrepreneur, and I help... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
ecosystem development. Indeed, when it comes to setting the table for fintech, America’s foreign rivals might just have it beat. In 2015, then British prime minister David Cameron announced that he wanted to make the UK the world leader... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
truly multinational countries in Europe, where all religions and ethnicities can feel they belong. Macedonians can now travel visa free to all of Europe except for the UK and Ireland. People study English starting in primary school, so it... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
with vaccines in testing are already stockpiling doses for distribution. If the testing shows the product to be unsafe or ineffective, all those doses will be destroyed—but if the product is approved, distribution can begin immediately. Another key item on the View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
recently, I took over as chair of Women in Football, which is the leading NGO for empowering women, celebrating their success, but also maintaining a collaborative dialogue with the governing bodies in the UK and in Europe about the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
commercial-scale power generation lies in the United Kingdom, which has led the way in developing industry standards for ocean power. Indeed, Smith anticipates working on a number of projects in the UK that will allow the company to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
these systems, however, access to drugs, devices, or treatments is more limited than we enjoy in the United States. Australia’s system is more specific about linking diagnostics to therapies; the country doesn’t just recommend testing, it requires testing. Recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
first vaccine doses administered in the West, and saved thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. In The Long Shot, Bingham shares an insider’s view into how the Vaccine Task Force beat the odds, and delivered a scientific... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
bust of founder Jamsetji Tata presides over meetings of the Tata Group, which traces its beginnings to 1868. Economic reforms also have made it possible for firms to grow by acquiring foreign entities. Godrej Industries, for example, recently purchased a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
two facilities in Tokyo—the first outside the UK to receive a “gold” award from the DSDC—where every design detail, from textures to finishes, takes into account the specific needs of a person with dementia. Bathroom doors are painted a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance