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- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
that a member of the school board had resigned his seat, with two years left on a four-year term? “I looked at the position and realized this was probably the opportunity to start contributing,” she says. Without a solvent, high-performing school system, Scranton’s... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Sir Peter Ogden (MBA 1973) has changed the lives of thousands of students with the Ogden Trust, which provides funding to ready the next generation of leaders in science and math. “My focus is not to change... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- News
Building Your Scaled Digital Organization
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and hundreds of small, pressing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
company, Ventro, which provides services for online exchanges. While the gold rush days of the late 1990s may be over, there is still a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among HBS students, faculty, and alumni. “The View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
create an in-demand product. But finding that passion took years. Most of them spent working jobs that while rewarding in their own way, just didn't give him a spark. That all changed on a fateful business trip to Strasbourg, France. And... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
better future beckoned. But then as I entered the border town of Safwan, which is a few miles into Iraq from Kuwait, it became clear that this was not the country that I had left. It had changed in ways that were incredible. Safwan seemed... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Bulletin reportage today centers on accomplishment rather than gender. - Susan Young Technology at HBS Chronicling 75 years of Bulletin coverage of technology highlights the drama and accelerating pace of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
multivariate equation in real time, all the time, in a super intense situation. The kite has enough power to change your direction from going horizontal across the water at 20 miles an hour to 40 feet in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
safety. When traveling the country making site visits, often by bus or train to save money, Read enjoys hearing the stories of challenge and change — of “transformation,” as he calls it — from Outward Bound alumni. Tell us about your... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
in my new book, I talk about the leader as coach. And many people are hiring coaches like Chad to help them through it. But I think as leaders, we need to be coaches. We're no longer command and control, directing people what to do. And... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
(once a characteristic of living things only, right?) in its answer. It assessed the situation, took a calculated risk, and bet just enough to win. Game, set, and match—$53,601 to $42,399—to the still-undefeated Wired One. (Dollars are just a figure of speech here; no... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
that we’ve built with our community.” When exploring a new direction or partnering with a new sponsor, she says that “we’re all of a like mind: Is this going to help people find their true north?” That focus on the consumer is nothing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
than any other—the Internal Revenue Service. As Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer, Tamaki is modernizing the historic agency’s processes and technology to benefit both IRS employees and taxpayers. Excerpts from a conversation with Tamaki... View Details