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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Managing Growth, professional intrapreneurship; 5 Giving Back, easy, satisfying, and a responsibility. Boards That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice for Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Barrett-Koehler Publishers) White offers... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
creating Wikis and message boards with IT. They also hope to increase operating hours in Spangler and Baker. The first half of the debate was a fairly sedate affair. One point of contention was the upfront $200 fee that incoming students... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
50 Years After King
the most influential women in business. Beyond her leadership at Young & Rubicam, she led a $5 billion division of Kraft Foods. Today, in addition to extensive board work, Fudge is a dedicated philanthropist, with a focus on education and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
than none at all. “When you set high expectations for voters, you’ve got to make sure you deliver on them. If you want democracy to work well, you need both the winners and the losers to be on board and accept the results.” “The Perils of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
top-notch board of directors who bring management and strategy expertise to the organization. Getting this group together, he says, is very rewarding. “We meet and brainstorm, and then we take trips to see if what we think jibes with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
relationship management or ‘customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
yin and yang between the improvement of the built environment and the preservation of nature,” says Rosenfeld, a member of the California advisory board The Trust for Public Land. “I’d like to think we’re protecting the natural world... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
When it came to his wise counsel and support, however, no institution likely benefited more than Harvard University, which awarded Gordon an honorary doctorate in 1977. At HBS, just one of the Harvard schools he helped, Gordon served on the View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Desmond Wong A loyal HBS alumnus who says he “truly bleeds Harvard crimson,” Wong has played a leading role in every '77 reunion since graduation. He has served on the HBS Alumni Association Board and the graduate schools committee and... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
game board coated with a ‘retroreflective’ surface reflects those images directly back to your glasses and into your eyes, no matter where you are sitting or standing. This creates a 3D, stereoscopic hologram on the board; it is the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
of directly making loans, the organization provides the infrastructure for crowd-sourced loans and investments to both nonprofit and for-profit positive impact companies. “Our board complains that we’re always innovating,” says Letelier... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
six early participants of Girls Group SEE MORE Watch a video profile of six early participants of Girls Group “That was completely mind-blowing to me,” says Schooner, who was a board member for the Women’s Center at the time. She had the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
classrooms. “Our annual budget is equivalent to the budget of a medium-sized high school, and we’re reaching 10 million students a month,” says Khan. Khan Academy also partners with organizations like the Brookings Institution, the Museum of Modern Art, NASA, and, most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
1990, Zaleznik has consulted to numerous companies on matters of succession and conflict resolution. He has also served on the boards of several major corporations, including The TJX Companies, American Greetings, King Ranch, Inc., and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
brands best use social media to collaborate with consumers? One way is to use social media as a sounding board in advance of major decisions. Social media makes it easy for us to identify customers who are highly involved in the brand. We... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
management skills to work for good causes. She helped a health-care start-up with its finances, served on the board of directors of a local choral group, and is the senior warden (head of Vestry) at Christ Church. She is also renovating... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
the Alumni Board, the Visiting Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Associates. “I’ve enjoyed working with the talented External Relations staff, and it has been a real privilege to have met so many outstanding graduates,” she... View Details