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- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
well as the $5,000 Crowd Favorite Prize. “It’s all a blur,” says Pak of the whirlwind experience. Just the day before—Earth Day—she, Paiji Yoo, and Mascari had launched the New York-based company. Then, that night, Pak boarded a flight to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
meetings a year in Boston (as well as the annual Global Alumni Conference), and be an active participant in the Board's activities. The 1996-97 Board consists of 36 members (not including ex officio): 88 percent are MBA alumni and 12... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and refineries are at capacity. It's going to take about a decade for us to catch up with the ever-increasing demand for energy." Simmons uses a well-known Boston construction project for a dramatic analogy: "You would be hard-pressed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
precipitate a war between the countries. Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) (Flatiron Books) The founder of the Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, who has been nominated by President Biden to serve as secretary of labor, has tapped Dan Koh (MBA 2011) to serve as his chief of staff, according to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
higher-quality results, the authors found. The study, in which more than 750 consultants participated, was conducted in cooperation with Boston Consulting Group. In the working paper on the experiment, the authors advocate for a nuanced... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
at the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP). “For me, the AMP was about taking a pit stop on my journey to becoming a transformational leader, and my time in Boston helped me achieve that and more,” he says. “I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
welcoming them to our extraordinary and diverse network of alumni, all of whom are united by the shared experience of attending HBS. In late May, the board met in Boston to complete the efforts undertaken in the various working committees... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
"The best practice does not, and increasingly will not, necessarily reside in Boston or even in the United States." Beyond the classroom, international students are a vital presence in the daily activities of the student body. Wheelwright... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
New York Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
stories that highlight the impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and communities around the world. The effort to engage alumni began in Boston on April 26, 2014 and will extend around the world over the next 18 months as Dean... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
venture capital investor Jacqueline Morby called him soon thereafter. She and husband Jeffrey Morby (MBA 1961) were launching a nonprofit to fight Alzheimer’s and invited McCance to join them, along with Boston philanthropists Jerome and... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ MORE Old Meets New: A Dinosaur... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Janet Kraus, cofounder of Circles, a leader in concierge services, is HBS’s newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Founded in 1997, Circles became a $50 million company with nearly 1,000 people operating in Boston and Burlington, Ontario.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
celebrate during a victory parade in Boston after winning Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. Despite such steps, inadvertent head blows and hard contact with the ground remain inevitable. Newly emerging research suggests that even sub-concussive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
course head for three years. Of the readers, Marshall says, “We were the only employer in Boston at the time that was hiring young women to use their minds.” Classes focused on analysis of cases (some fourteen a year, specially prepared... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
2002–2013 Born in Boston and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, just miles from HBS, Mike Bloomberg has pioneered innovations that have spread across the world. From Medford to Wall Street and beyond, the same core beliefs—in the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Howard met Barbara Noble, a nursing student. “I looked at her and thought, ‘I’m going to marry that woman,’” and two years later, he did. The pair launched a nonprofit to help South African students, and, after Howard worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb, the couple and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Closing the Opportunity Gap
and education, followed by six months of apprenticeship at major area companies. “Our model is based on high support and high expectations,” Chertavian told the Boston Herald (September 7, 2004). Chertavian, who runs the four-year-old... View Details