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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
group toured the PSA Singapore terminal, the world’s largest container transhipment hub. The immersion culminated in a symposium in Singapore attended by local alumni and other business leaders. Several faculty members discussed their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
says Lee, noting that it’s a business that’s fairly common in Europe, whereas Redbrick has virtually no U.S. competitors. Through its three funds financed by private investors, Redbrick buys up quantities of single-family houses in... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
staff nearly 6 million meals per year. Through a multi-year grant, the school has developed new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and funded educational and marketing efforts to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
a subsequent stint at Corning in Japan, Barry came to another realization—that he needed to enhance his business skills— prompting him to apply to HBS. After earning his MBA, he put his financial acumen to work in fund management at T.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
top private and public schools around Johannesburg, with the financial assistance and mentoring efforts of 25 local sponsors. The second year of the program, begun in January, launched another 40 students. Clarke hopes to place 60... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Struggles, Medtronic, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Shell, and Sun Microsystems. A portion of the conference proceeds will benefit HBS community initiatives such as the campaign to fund a chair honoring H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33) and the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
poverty, education, and infant mortality rates, the ARC and the word salad of state and local agencies that it funds have failed to redress the enduring social and economic problems faced by communities like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
included exploring the potential for ecotourism, organizing a women’s farming collective, and coordinating efforts to save crops from raids by elephants. He enjoyed the experience so much that he extended his term by a year to help a View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
support from the alumni network. "All we usually read about is some whiz kid in California whose new app has made him millions," notes Fred Braun (MBA 1959), president of Workman Fund in Leavenworth, Kansas. "Perhaps the report the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
years. As an endorsement of this international focus, Jafar has established a fund to support the MENA Research Center in Istanbul, its Dubai Research Office, and other HBS activities throughout the region. The expansion of HBS’s global... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
options have some key features in common. Consumers would be able to choose their own health-care plans, typically using tax-advantaged funds supplied by their employers; have substantial choice among health-care plans; and have increased... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
real progress has been made over the last decade, thanks in part to funding from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and efforts by pharmaceutical companies and governments to make drugs available at little or no... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a wonderful gift to be able to produce... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
connected the two women. “We both embraced the idea of health and education coming together,” recalls Liu. After several years of research, Liu and Chan developed three guiding principles, which Liu says sets the school, funded by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
plan. “We are now wrapping up the second stage, called pre-production, which includes finalizing the treatment (equivalent to a script in a narrative film), casting, location scouting, and, of course, fundraising. “In short, we are ready to start filming as soon as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
The Business Plan Contest’s popularity is just one indicator of a surge in entrepreneurial activity at HBS, which this year saw the launch of a $50,000 MVP Fund to support students using the “Lean Startup” approach to develop and test a... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
is to improve quality,” he said, “because better health is cheaper than bad health.” This new model, he noted, takes into account obstacles to care that are present in developing countries, such as poor transportation, and also harnesses the role of the health-care... View Details