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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
noting that the founders drew on planning documents for several recent museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. “For a museum on our scale, it takes a lot of planning, but it doesn’t take... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
processing. Founders Patrick George, Gonçal Pagan, Javier Segovia (all MBA '02), and Benjamin Vigoda, a Ph.D. student at MIT, hope to produce faster, more powerful chips at a lower cost than those currently on the market. Three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
U.S.-based companies. Whether looking for education levels, company tenure, industry affiliation, or key accomplishments of founders and CEOs, users of the database can quickly find what interests them. The database is the result of... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- News
An Educational Start-Up
that focuses on curriculum development and on the case method as a means of teaching students about entrepreneurship. Now in its fourth year, the EECPCL is sponsored in part by Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA ’54), president and founder of the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
’76) of Esquel Group (the world’s largest manufacturer of woven shirts), Bruno Filipi (AMP 164, 2003) of Coca-Cola, and Alexander H.K. Zhang (MBA ’07), founder of Clear Suppliers Corporation, all opened their doors to the group, while HBS... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone: Specializing in executive compensation and performance consulting. Courtesy Robin Ferracone Robin Ferracone (MBA 1980) is the founder (in 2007) and executive chair of Farient Advisors (www.farient.com) —a firm specializing in... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
1987), a Restorsea investor and founder of the venture capital firm LMN Ventures. “I had stage fright at first, but it was an amazing experience,” she says of appearing in a packed Aldrich classroom with classmates Sulubha Grant of the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
School and the army were central to his whole success story.” Waite also credited his career achievements to his association with legendary HBS professor and the founder of venture capital, General Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), for whom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
organizations we lead have well-designed programs and policies that support them. For the benefit of our employees and our companies, it’s time to break the silence around caregiving. —Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) is the author of Don’t Give Up on Me! Supporting... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
Stern notes that the HCA's founders "had a very intelligent design" in not allowing a president to serve more than two years. "I think that's one of the strengths of our club," he says. "We've had a series of very dedicated people who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
platter, often by pretending to be someone they’re not. 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 Boston... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
says. “Sometimes, just being able to bounce around ideas with other founders late at night was exactly what we needed to move forward. The i-lab is an amazing place to nurture a startup.” “The creative problem-solving the i-lab fosters is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
illogical collective decisions we make.” —Dante Disparte (PLDA 6, 2009), founder and CEO, Risk Cooperative Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng “What I love about this novel—particularly given the amount of time I spend thinking about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
founder and co-chair, Carla Harris (MBA 1987), Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, and co-chair Alice Vilma (MBA 2007) Managing Director of the Multicultural Group at Morgan Stanley, told the virtual audience of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
2013), the founder and CEO of the Chinese electric startup WM Motor, puts the personal passenger vehicle market at around 28 million. Chinese consumers bought nearly half of all electric plug-ins sold worldwide last year, with Chinese... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
When Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012) was in his last year of graduate school, he got a call from Geoffrey Canada, founder and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a nonprofit that takes a comprehensive, cradle-to-career approach to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Revlon founder who was among those profiled in Tedlow's recent book, Giants of Enterprise. His session examined the roots of eth-ical decay in America's “quiz show scandal” of the 1950s, which was driven in part by the aggressive tactics... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
bigger: In seven years, the founders envision a web of half a million people—with initial donors each attracting people from their own networks, who in turn bring in additional people from their networks, and so on. At that scale, they... View Details
Keywords: April White