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- 01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer
1997, Petersmeyer helped found and, for several years, manage America’s Promise, the national youth-development organization. Currently, in addition to overseeing The Fitzie Foundation, whose education grants have helped scores of young View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
emergency—a problem that is particularly acute for women and their ability to save for retirement. “In the United States, women’s pensions or retirement plans are typically 35 percent less than men’s even though we live longer and our... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
Doubles Partner
also an early backer of Noom and Impossible Foods, among others. Upon learning that just two percent of funding goes to female founders, William’s made a strategic commitment to diversity and inclusion; today, 78 percent of founders backed by Serena Ventures are View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
A Chance to Thrive
after HBS and then joined Lehman Brothers, where she cofounded a group that focused on developing strategic opportunities for women and minority-owned financial services firms. At work as well as through her philanthropic activities,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video segments excerpted from in-depth... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
pretty incredible ride. We're kind of littered with best place to work awards which we certainly celebrate and appreciate. But we're as equally celebrating a young 32-year-old that goes and gets a big job outside of our company or one of our young View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
gained influence. Influence transcended power, and power politics contrasted with quiet service. Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight by Elizabeth Gillan Muir (HRPBA 1958) (Dundurn Press) This is the story of how View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and landed a job in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
women to the hospital. Mukhtar led improvements in the world around her. She didn’t commission a study or give advice. She confronted extremism. And if an illiterate peasant in a remote corner of Pakistan can do all that, imagine what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tongish, posted his profile to a now-defunct website that promised online dating with a twist: Women recommended their male friends to other women. Kushner, who had also recommended a friend of hers on the site, spotted Deckinger’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
sector, it's dominated by male businessmen, basically. We know that Africa actually has the highest participation, the highest percentage of women business owners and business leaders across the world. However, when you look at this into... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
particularly women of color, were more likely to be employed by the industries hardest hit by shutdowns, including leisure, hospitality, and retail. “The gender pay gap, in aggregate, has shifted 8 cents in 25 years, which is pathetic.”... View Details
- 06 Mar 2017
- News
Leading in the Community and the Boardroom
the community.” Wiley credits her MBA for providing that flexibility and balance, although business school was not an established route for women when she graduated from Howard University in 1968. “There were only three View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
conference will feature management seminars and panel discussions on information technology, the nonprofit sector, prominent African-American women business leaders, venture capital, and the music industry, as well as a "town meeting," an... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
The Real Meaning of Love
involved because Yeardley’s cousin is my best friend. “Fifty million women in this country right now will be in an abusive relationship in their lifetime, and yet you never hear about it, you never talk about it, and all of a sudden it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
and 2020—will see other young men and women enter the political arena. I’m a longtime student of Howard Schultz and what he’s done at Starbucks. His leadership and how it is expanding the social and political footprint of business are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Related Links The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Celebrating the Women of HBS W50 Summit Event A Daring Experiment exhibit Women's Student Association 2013 Dynamic Women in Business Conference View Details
- 07 May 2019
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How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
“We encourage them to give function a high priority because it’s been shown to result in the highest career satisfaction from a long-term perspective. The numbers show that our message is being taken to heart.” Class of 2008 Class Size 907 Yield 90.8% View Details