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- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
In March, the School lost two of its most distinguished and loyal professors, Bertrand Fox and Myles Mace. The following profiles recall their contributions to HBS. Professor emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1972 Born, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1995 Earns BA, Economics, DePauw University 1995 Launches Angie’s List 1996 Angie’s List buys Unified Neighbors 2000 Earns MBA 2002 Cofounds Orr... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
those who have less time to invest in enjoying this hobby.” Research supports the claim that interest in who we are, where we come from, and to whom we’re related is an almost completely universal human trait. Ancestry.com View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Sydney, 1954 B.A., Economics, Music University of Sydney, 1957 LL.B. LESSONS FROM HBS “The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
University Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Paulson Jr. During his 32 years at Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson rose through the ranks, becoming chairman and CEO in 1999, the year he... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A champion for First Nations
Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) was trained to be a public servant from childhood. Having grown up in a family of Native American Cree chiefs, Favel has spent a lifetime shoring up employment opportunities for his people. As chancellor at the View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer, Tom Dean spent much of his youth in Asia and developed a curiosity about American business. After graduating from the University of Virginia and working at Irving Trust Company in New... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
despite the fact that we were taxpayers, and in response to that, Historically Black Colleges and Universities were created. And HBCUs have been enormously powerful and profound in what they produced. We know that HBCUs have produced... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
(January 8, 2001) reported. The article described how Zhang, through hard work and sacrifice, made her way to HBS and eventually founded WildChina.com, a firm that specializes in off-the-beaten-track tours of China’s scenic and culturally rich landscape. A graduate of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases, or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds. It is tempting to pin hopes of an economic recovery on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
detailed in the recent book A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women (Penn State University Libraries), written by Lee Stout. Nixon's advocacy of women's issues, often at odds with his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
UNIVERSITY Bishop William Lawrence of Harvard University approached George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, to request a $1 million gift to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was also a partner. Mendell is a member of the executive committee of the Cancer Research Institute, vice chairman of the New York division of the National Mentoring Partnership, and a trustee of St. Bernard's School. A graduate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's schools, the chairman of a local... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
ever to win the honor, which he shares with Myron S. Scholes of Stanford University. Merton, the School's George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, joins more than thirty Harvard University faculty members who have won a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details