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- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
relativity. Those interests led to degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and even some opportunities to work on projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. But his life plans took a sharp turn on a Tuscany... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
encouraged to dress to impress, participate in the auction, connect with friends, and dance. Overall, this is about engagement. We want to benefit the community as much as we can, and we want them to have a good time. I know a lot of people are really looking forward... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
service at prom time. At Harvard College, where he starred in both football and baseball, he organized team meals and other activities at the Varsity Club. And at Harvard Business School, he started a housing agency to help entering... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
traditionally associated with growing up and choosing instead to rent cars and apartments, even if they have the means to buy. Surround is a digital insurance agency that operates in 30 states and offers just the right insurance for these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the company has advised parents on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of extreme poverty,” says... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
Extension Field Station in Lake Placid, New York. “Mike was already working with grants from the state of New York to expand its maple industry,” Turner explains. “Senator Chuck Schumer was among those who believed this was the only agricultural business that had a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
companies, with between $5 million and $50 million in operating profit, that were too small for the likes of a Berkshire Hathaway investment. The companies wanted to grow in an organic way without the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
didn’t exist before.” Growing basketball on the continent entails addressing the logistics and marketing challenges inherent in trying to scale any operation across 54 countries. It also poses a deep cultural challenge—the kind where the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and Dunn's VC firm grew and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
the afternoon gathering on a rooftop patio overlooking the city. The HBS Rock Center and the Harvard Innovation Labs co-organized the gathering and partnered with the HBS Club of Austin and the Harvard Club of Austin with the goal of elevating and promoting all four... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
director of the firm Lighthouse Capital Partners, York made Series A investments in companies including Netflix, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and NVIDIA, among many others. Witnessing her parents’ commitment to activism and public service when she was View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
organizations they will work for and the communities they will live in stand to benefit enormously from that kind of background.” “When I talk to current HBS students and recent graduates, they often cite their global immersion trip as... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would take the lumber and sell it to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world are declaring a climate emergency and a growing number of whistleblowers are coming out to tell the truth. What would telling the truth mean for your business? Supporting people to engage in social movements. Ecosia pays the legal... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Haft (MBA/MCRP 1977) launched Crown Books in the Washington, DC, area, with plans for rapid growth and a pitch sure to set the chain apart from the growing market: lower prices. Crown’s books were discounted 10 to 40 percent every day, an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Nations’ Human Development Report in 1996, Ramirez may not have imagined himself attending to the details of running the largest movie theater chain in Latin America. Yet, he relished the challenge. “Learning about the business world helped me to View Details