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- 01 Jun 2005
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Better than Cash
independent strategy and marketing consultant. In that time, approximately 550 CAP volunteers have donated nearly $7 million in consulting services. This year alone, fourteen teams of HBS alumni will donate an estimated $1.1 million in...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
companies taking on these challenges. It’s been a steep ascent for ESG in recent years, from a fringy outlier straight to the mainstage, as investments increased tenfold from 2018 to 2020. And there’s no sign of that pace slowing. Some estimates suggest that View Details
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- 16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Providence and New London. These places have struggled. We decided a long time ago as a club that the region required some community action.” HBS clubs and associations worldwide are making the SPNM program a priority. In the last year...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
body, which he joined as a volunteer in 2007 after a lengthy career in global finance, including more than 25 years at Goldman Sachs. “For many of us, it was another reminder that things needed to change—not...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Milestone for HBS Alumna
Alvarez-Bjelland For the first time, the president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is a woman MBA from Harvard Business School. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (AB ’76, MBA ’79), who took office last summer, will focus her one-year term on Harvard’s role in View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.” Crane’s passion for View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
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Mandela in Triumph at Harvard
its June graduation ceremonies. Mandela, 80, an invited keynote speaker at the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town, delighted 25,000 people in Harvard's Tercentenary Theater with his regal bearing, broad smile, and warm sense of...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything is possible, and he is willing...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Anjali Raina to Lead India Research Center
In March, Anjali Raina was appointed executive director of HBS’s India Research Center in Mumbai. She spent the past fifteen years with Citigroup (India). The center was established in 2006 to support faculty research and course...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
become similarly important. At some level, there should be critical learning coming out of the past year as to how to deliver education through new channels. We have the opportunity to throw the model up into the air and let the pieces...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
Goodwin Illustration by Jack Unruh Over the past two decades, Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) has made a career of getting involved in complex and intractable global crises, from helping to rebuild the Iraqi Ministry of Health to directing...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
portfolio of programs in parallel.” In an industry where serial entrepreneurship is the norm, Cytokinetics’s approach instead requires “a strategy based on sustainability and durability” that includes forging significant partnerships with View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
that of his father, who was trained as an engineer and ended up in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and MIT, respectively, and he spent a year pursuing advanced studies in...
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- 28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing
interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research...
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- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
coauthored two books. But his longest sustained commitment has been to help public and private decision-makers more fully understand the causes of black poverty in the United States and underdevelopment in Africa and the Afro-Latin world. “I’ve been working for many...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of...
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Jen Myers
- 01 Mar 2004
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Kilimanjaro
for ten years to another porter who didn’t have one.) While our own awe and respect for the climbers was uniform, those of us who did not climb Kili had a variety of reactions to hearing about the trek. Some were certain that they would...
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- 06 Sep 2012
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Fashion-Forward
Amed “Does this look good on me?” That’s a question Imran Amed (MBA 2002) heard frequently when he was growing up in Calgary, Canada, no doubt because friends and family quickly learned he was often insightful, on target, and honest in his response. “Never in a million...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
the roots of GE’s “ecomagination” business initiative can be traced in part to 3,000 pages of reports written on global warming, brought along on vacation a few years ago. “I wanted GE’s response to...
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