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- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For the Greater Good
“Most people don't know, but Central Park, while it's owned by the city, is completely managed by the philanthropic organization called the Central Park Conservancy. And it's almost entirely dependent on private donations. “I think America has a long history of people... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
to take over the show. Singer had been told that writing a spec script was the way to break into the business, so he wrote a spec West Wing, which happened to be one of his favorite shows. “The writing probably wasn’t very good, but I think John liked the View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
and a place that valued the environment, he says. “And frankly, it used to be the best place in the world to live or work or retire or come for holidays. So I set my ambitions very high.” Mitsotakis is confident that capital won’t be the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
only producing 240 million pounds a year. You would serve one customer.” That 50-ton-a-day mark is a real goal, says Lo, and the Dubai farm will be a big proof of concept. And while any company’s world-saving ambitions can resemble... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
where you’re aiming. That sort of fearlessness and ambition carried David through.” Another lesson occurred further into the company’s history. On the Friday before Christmas in 1990, van Bever and three other top-level managers,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
can serve the needs of nonprofit clients while retaining the option of returning to Bain's for-profit practice at any time. The Bridge Group allows our premier consultants to fulfill their ambitions of making a meaningful contribution in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
my briefcase in one hand and my camera in the other,” he recalls. “After I did the AMP program, my ambitions really came to the fore. It was a watershed time for building confidence and creating big ideas for the future.” For Main Wilson,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering women to lead
women come to my class wanting to be leaders, but feeling like maybe they don't have what it takes. I try to get them to affirm their ambitions and understand that leadership is within their grasp," she says. Hood's approach served her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
for that same promotion that you’ve been working towards for a couple of years, that you have all the same professional ambitions that you did before Your boss, not from a place of malice, but your boss may say, oh gee, well, hmm, this... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
professional stories embody all that make HBS such an enriching community. Their ambition and integrity hint at the contributions these remarkable young people will make as the School’s newest alumni. Mission Possible. In social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and scope of Harvard’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and develop leadership and ambition for a career by practicing real science in an inspiring natural environment. Evaluations to date show that students who complete Connections modules have a better grasp of academic principles; and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
2012 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Selected from a competitive process that attracted 19 applicants, Jena will receive a $25,000 grant from HBS to advance his work. Trained as a biomedical engineer, Jena says his ambition is “to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
afterwards,” she says, “that sacrificing personal ambition and achievement for the good of the group is something leaders must be prepared to do.” Ehrenberg met her husband, John Wong, a surgeon of Chinese-Australian heritage, in Hong... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
bullish on Brazil as a place for foreign companies to set up shop. "Brazil is one of the world's biggest domestic markets," he says. "If you're a company with global ambitions and are seeking global economies of scale, you must be in... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
the right questions and how to process the answers. I acquired a thirst for knowledge and an instinct for reading human nature. And I developed a driving ambition to build something that would give me and my family financial... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
choice, I have taken the bumpy road. I traded in the suits for the sweats, and prayed to God that I don’t screw up my kids in the process. I guess there is some comfort in knowing I can go back when I want to, maybe not to the same type of job, but to something that I... View Details