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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
Born in Kansas, Whit Sears graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, before attending HBS. He and his wife, DD, are currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers in Thailand, where they teach English and mentor local teachers. As an undergraduate, I changed... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
Now serving as Hoplite’s managing director and chief administrative officer, the busy New Yorker rounds out her professional and parenting resumes with philanthropic and advisory roles at institutions such as the American Museum of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
installations have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship. Exhibiting Forgiveness, the feature film that he wrote... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
All photos by Webb Chappell From the Charles River, the newly renovated Baker Library looks very much as it has for the past seventy-some years — stately columns, enormous windows, the signature bell tower. But a closer inspection reveals a few subtle changes. The back... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
It all started with a Japanese language class. Steven Williams (MBA ’84) was a senior marketing director at San Francisco’s Genentech when he took Saturday classes at Soko Gakuen Japanese language school four years ago “just to keep the neurons firing.” “It was a hobby... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Boston-area nonprofit organizations, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Museum of Science, and the Carroll School, a school for children with language-based disabilities. She is also an active... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Education Revolution
COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education revolution,” documentary filmmaker and venture capitalist Bob Compton (MBA ’84) told the Memphis... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Sharing a love of art with his community and the world
Thomas James (AB 1964, MBA 1966), chairman of Raymond James Financial, created a world-class museum for artist Salvador Dali and supports education and youth programs. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The Art and Science of Teaching
Doug Lemov (MBA ’04), a charter-schools consultant and managing director of True North Public Schools, a network of schools in upstate New York, is a former teacher, principal, and charter-school founder. After years of trying to analyze and improve education results... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Building on History
I've had the opportunity to do, including becoming the first tenured African American at the Harvard Business School. “If I were to describe for you what I consider the most important contribution in my life, however, it was the 12-year journey to help build the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Connie Baher (MBA 1980) I was standing in New York’s Asia Society Museum when I saw it. A high school kid from Connecticut, I’d taken the train to the big city and was nosing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Library Dues
The son of a linen- and curtain-store owner, Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72), chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, has done pretty well for himself in life; he attributes a measure of that success to the public libraries he made use of as a youngster. Now a trustee of... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Enhancing educational opportunities in the community
Courtney Miller Cavatoni (MBA 1999) works to further educational opportunities as board chair of an independent school in southwestern Virginia, where good schools are attracting families and businesses to the area. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford Medical School, and the Brookings Institution to contribute educational content on the visual arts, medicine, and health care, respectively. “We’re also launching some... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
Business Leader of the Year In late January, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) presented Arthur Rock with its Business Leader of the Year Award. The HBSA/NC annually recognizes a highly successful individual who has made a significant impact on the... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- News
Bringing Art Into Kenya's Schools
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Celebrations in LA, Florida, London
Since its September 2002 kickoff at HBS, The Campaign for Harvard Business School has traveled to thirteen U.S. and international cities, helping to strengthen and unify the far-flung HBS community and giving more than 3,000 alumni the opportunity to meet Dean Kim B.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Boston HBS Club Announces 1998-99 Program
revolution. The club's popular Leadership Breakfasts will include guest speakers Peter Lynch, Esther Dyson, and Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66), among many others. Dining out, museum visits, career seminars, programs geared to recent... View Details
- 15 Sep 2010
- News
A Model for Free Schools in Britain
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two well-regarded K–12 private... View Details