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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
From Chalkboards to Chatbots
Artwork/animation by Greg Meeson/hitandrunmedia.com; shutterstock.com Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, becoming an integral part of how we live, work, and interact. It is... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), managing a portfolio that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
Summit reins to five of their partners in 2001. “From the very beginning, we knew that we wanted to build the kind of firm that could succeed without us,” says Stamps, whose low-key, friendly manner belies—or perhaps accounts for—his remarkable success. While Summit’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
cuts that eviscerated core services such as street sweeping and litter-bin collection. The results were both predictable and unpleasant: a “visibly filthier” city, to use Tisch’s phrase, and an exploding rat problem. The funding and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact investment View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
understand. The bits that classical computers use to store data and perform calculations have only two possible states: 0 or 1. But the laws of quantum mechanics, which govern the world of atomic and subatomic particles, are inherently... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
coordinate the effort. They raised funds to rescue financial institutions, the New York Stock Exchange, and the City of New York. They worked with US treasury secretary George Cortelyou to move gold reserves to the places of greatest... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it," says Seth Klarman, who sees giving back as one of the key metrics to consider when gauging success. Another is whether one has created value for others.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
food. “We’re raising the profile of our food because we believe it is excellent, and the world needs to embrace and celebrate it,” says Nwuneli. Runa Alam, from DPI, says many pension funds, sovereign funds, endowments and other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
whose $5 million gift funded construction of Harvard Business School, continued to jealously guard his near anonymity. In a rare 1923 interview, he told a reporter, “Business men of America should reduce their talk two-thirds.” Pausing,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
manages $3.8 billion As part of the Polish underground resistance during World War II, André Jakurski's father forged documents to help those in danger change their identities. "My parents lost everything during the war," explains the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
changed rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it did later that spring,” recalls Diagne. “I had no idea that job would turn into pandemic response and economic recovery.” Worldwide, crisis... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
of the business. I help her with MAYU’s financials, commercials, fund raising, etc. A lot of what I do for MAYU stems from my learnings from classes like TEM, FMSF, and the more generic finance classes from the RC year. It is indeed very... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
leaders. “The fact that we as a school are strengthening our understanding of businesses around the world and bringing that understanding into our classrooms affirms the HBS mission,” says Winston. “We’ve come a long way from a time when... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie