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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Unsung Hero
where, with her banking and diplomatic skills, she became a policy advisor to the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designation Unit. She trains foreign government officials and bankers on procedures for preventing money... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
includes experience at Citicorp, Conseco, and the Boston Consulting Group, and, more recently, leadership of an academic research institute. She first became involved in the center as a volunteer strategic consultant, but soon found herself View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
would lose their jobs due to automation and recession, and then millions of people who would need healthcare because of aging, among other reasons. That’s why the vision of Osmosis has always been to train... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
Mark Tatum (MBA 1998) On his first day at HBS, Mark Tatum (MBA 1998) went to the career office, told them he wanted a job in the business of sports, and came home with a printout of every relevant alumnus in the HBS database. Then he hit... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
New York Club Honors Two Executives
Statesman Award, Enrico discussed the "joy and thrill" of his job and said, "I'm convinced that it's the 'soft' side of business, the human side, that really does matter the most." After receiving the club's Leadership Award, Wagner... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
successor. “I'm very interested in government and what mayors do to improve people's lives. So we have the Bloomberg Harvard program. Professors from the B school and the K school have provided real help to cities around the country and around the world in View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) had an ambitious goal in cofounding WAVE Academy, an innovative vocational education program that connects its graduates with entry-level jobs within six to eight weeks of completing the program. “We are trying to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
An investment in meaningful results
nearly $1.5 billion in grants to the city's neediest residents since 1988. Robin Hood is New York City's largest funder of emergency food programs and largest private funder of job training and housing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
University President Drew Faust explained, “Issues that people care deeply about—their safety, their job prospects, their health, their schools, and their pocketbooks—are often shaped largely by local policies. As more and more people... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in economic development... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Pooling resources to tackle India's social challenges
been improving lives in India for years. As CEO at Cummins, he helped establish the first engineering college for women; and later, at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), which laid the groundwork for the garden through irrigation basins, a solar-powered pump, and, most importantly, training cooperative groups of village women: “It’s just stunning to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
up—it was electrifying. After that, I helped him chart stock prices on the only empty wall in our house. I’m pretty sure my parents were disappointed that I took a job in investing, because stock trading is a universal hobby in many Asian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
When he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1990 with a degree in aerospace engineering, Eric Feagler (MBA 2001) had already been accepted by the Navy’s elite flight training program. After a brief postgraduation return to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
outlined his vision for building an organization that would offer disadvantaged youth a year of training and then place them in meaningful jobs with partnering corporations. As a student at HBS, Chertavian... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
the announcement of his appointment as the School’s ninth Dean. A member of the HBS faculty since 1970, Light, 64, was named Acting Dean last August after the departure of Kim B. Clark. Summers noted that Light “has done an outstanding View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
in the attacks, but that information was in separate silos. Richard Clarke, whose job it was to integrate across those silos, was a leftover from the Clinton administration, with limited influence in the new Washington power structure.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
we served and to see all of the day-to-day stuff.” Quainton’s dream job was interrupted in 1964 when he was drafted. After training at the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, he was sent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley