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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm
serve as ambassadors and champions of the HBS Fund to the broader alumni community. They will also lead the HBS Fund Council. Formed in 2016, this volunteer advisory group helps to devise new strategies for raising alumni understanding of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
feedback should focus on problems and not on reinforcement,” Breitfelder explains. Thanks to changes in education and parenting, however, Gen Zers are accustomed to View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
cultural dialogue; Past Lives, a 2023 feature film about Korean childhood friends—one who stayed, one who moved to the United States—has received multiple award nominations. Kim and his wife, Kyung-ah Park,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send." David Thomas stresses the importance of "multimodality" in communication. "What you say is only the beginning," he states. "Your behavior, your actions, View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)
spending two years at HBS and making lifelong friends, Whitney’s early career at Bain Capital, and the investment business he helped found and build, Gauge Capital. As a young... View Details
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
feedback they received from interviews with 21 seniors, 14 of their middle-aged children, and 12 younger relatives. “Our number one recommendation, to break down barriers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
immediately drove to campus with the envelope he received from the admissions office. “I wanted the full HBS experience,” he says, describing the spring day that he sat in front of Baker Library and opened... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
TOMMY, JULIE, AND BILLY FRIST: New fund supports fellowships and innovation in financial aid. Photo Courtesy Frist family Financial aid at HBS has received a $10 million boost,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
work for a startup has anywhere near the resources that a venture capital firm is going to have to do that kind of due diligence, nor do they actually have the time to do it, because usually you get an offer and you might have to View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
acquisition route.” While he “retired” from Venrock in 1997 in order to let the next generation move ahead, Crisp soon returned part-time when Laurance and his brother David asked him to serve as vice chair of the family holding company,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Sep 2017
- News
Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)
talented faculty and students,” he says. “With a trust, I was able to make a bigger gift to HBS and receive an income for life.” His trust will ultimately support the HBS Fund,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
the US Constitution, you need to understand the time period from which it emerged, Moss argues, and the problems and personalities that shaped it. Today’s case protagonist is Founding Father James Madison;... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
University more broadly. The pair’s long-standing enthusiasm for Harvard began when they both attended Harvard College and then earned graduate degrees from the University. They even timed it so that they would graduate together— Dosiou... View Details