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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
less than $25,000 a year, this program represents a transformational opportunity to earn a college degree and secure a job with a family-sustaining wage. What is sometimes underestimated is that not only are community colleges obvious... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
trying to do good can forget that people are the best experts on their own lives. Crucial to actually helping people is listening to them and understanding what they think they need. So many education efforts have gotten into trouble by believing that there is a silver... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
pharmaceutical CEO’s perspective on what’s next in Alzheimer’s research; and a panel discussion on the digital transformation of health care. “While many other organizations might claim to offer similar topics, the VRT series is designed... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by changing people’s understanding of the world. This View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
guy, and he shall be missed by the marketing world. Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) I was a student of Professor Salmon’s in 1962 and 1963, an experience that was transformational for me and for my family business. In those years, as part of the... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), which laid the groundwork for the garden through irrigation basins, a solar-powered pump, and, most importantly, training cooperative groups of village women: “It’s just stunning to see the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with cities... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (MBA 1986) loves contemporary art for its aesthetic appeal, but also for its ability to challenge existing norms. And now she's transforming the industry in much the same spirit with VIA Art Fund, a new model of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
was also wondrous, he says, because it was such a transformative experience, and it is one that he wants other people to have. “I got more exposure to so many folks who were aspiring to do great things in the business world: the guest... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Anheuser-Busch InBev Board Member, Fundação Estudar Chairman, Lemann Foundation Jorge Paulo Lemann (above, center) is the leading force behind Banco Garantia, Brazil’s most prestigious investment bank. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, he helped View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck Illustration by Zachary Pullen When Tom Oreck (OPM 26, 1998) took over the family vacuum cleaner business seven years ago, his biggest challenge was to transform the firm from an entrepreneurial “one-man band” founded by his father,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
great examples of how we are responding to the big shifts we see in the world today—globalization, vast entrepreneurial opportunities, the transformational power of digital technologies, and the immense potential of One Harvard to meet... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
In an interview in last December's Bulletin Dean Kim B. Clark talked of launching "a profound transformation around information technology (IT)," an initiative that would earn for the School an unequaled reputation for intelligent,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
transform resources into products or services of greater value. Sustaining technologies are those processes that foster improved product performance, while disruptive technologies are those that initially tend to degrade product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
of Varanasi, India; and the ruins of Sukhothai, Thailand. The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation by Charlene Li (MBA 1993) (Wharton Digital Press) Technology has revolutionized the nature of relationships between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
getting the job done. Over the years he transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE (JAB) from a small, privately held German company into a successful global powerhouse. In addition to serving as chairman and CEO of JAB, Harf’s many roles... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the power of business is to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
High on his list of musts: visit the campus, sit in on a class, dine at the student cafeteria, and talk with students, faculty, and alumni. The bigger challenge, he continues, is trying to understand the extent to which any institution has a View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
executives—including those who already possess an MBA or advanced business degree—a foundational understanding of quantitative analysis and data science. “Data and data analytics are transforming industries across the board,” says HBAP... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
about ways to provide lifelong learning opportunities that coincide with the patterns we see in your lives. Three continuing education programs exclusively for alumni — The Entrepreneurís Tool Kit, Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Member, and Transitions... View Details