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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
attentiveness to General Motors's needs during the last 25 years. Raised in a working-class family in Cleveland, he attended the General Motors Institute prior to HBS and has been with GM since leaving Soldiers Field. He rose through the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all promise to offer it, in different shapes and forms. Strong leadership. Bold leadership. Tested... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit instilled in Leger an interest in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate developer, but it just came... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
after a woman on the Harvard campus and the first building named after an American with a Chinese surname. As part of the gift, the Chao family has also endowed the Ruth Mulan Chu and James S. C. Chao View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
And that gives us so much hope, because we do think that across the country, Americans who are struggling can recover if they get help from places like Provoking Hope. April: Sheryl, I want to step back and look at how we got here, how... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
to friends and family to help them raise cash, and if they were really lucky, they would attract the interest of wealthy families such as the Rockefellers and the Whitneys. A mere handful of VCs were doing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
kindness. With personal insights on how to turn getting older into life’s best chapter, the book provides useful and practical tips and guidance to embrace and celebrate the richness of life, one day at a time. Bringing Adam Smith into the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru by George Cloutier (MBA ’69) (HarperBusiness) Having spent over thirty years guiding business owners, Cloutier, founder and CEO of American Management Services, offers... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
Tom (MBA 1969) and Patricia Barry It was a given in Tom Barry’s family that, having done well in math and science in high school, he would pursue a degree in a related field as a student at Yale. But during his junior year, the Ohio... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
close the digital divide that exists in low-income communities where many families don't have a computer at home. "It's such a compelling idea," says Edward Olebe (MBA '99), who has coordinated the project for the HBSAAA in New York. "Not... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
the pair look for new businesses to support, one area that personally interests Levy is family caregiving. “We have 50 million unpaid, untrained family caregivers. I'm really interested in the care that’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
story of a Chinese American family whose unpredictable father, Stanley, learns he has pancreatic cancer. As his health declines, the family contends with the messy questions of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
I also had two experiences where family members were really sick and having a great doctor changed the trajectory of their lives. Being able to have that impact seemed incredibly meaningful; and I decided to specialize in Emergency... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
States from Taiwan as an eight-year-old speaking no English, the New York Times (February 26, 2001) reported. “I was very lucky to grow up in a family that believed in hard work and education,” said Chao, who favors outreach and access... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was able to launch the product with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop... View Details