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- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
attributed to CEO Dave Lewis (AMP 161, 2001), who surprised some by announcing this week that he will step down next year to make way for Ken Murphy (AMP 159, 2000). The press noted that Murphy has no background in grocery, having most... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
kind of undecided. Lam Chuan Leong (MBA ’78), who was my boss in the Air Force, had done his Harvard MBA and told me about his experience.” Yeo had interests beyond his science and engineering background in school and university, the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Creativity and Innovation
innovation. We take an interdisciplinary approach, so as technology has emerged, we find that our students are coming with that background in technology. Therefore, what they’re doing within the university is exploring their creativity,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An engine of innovation in public education
Drawing upon his background as an entrepreneur and educator, Stig Leschly (MBA 1997/JD 1998) leads Match Education, a reform group that seeks to redefine effective teaching and improve the educational experience of low-income students. It... View Details
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
Practice. With their backgrounds in business leadership, in companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals, they bring a wealth of experience to the classroom across all the School’s educational programs. Additionally, the Arthur Rock... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
background in school and university, the Times reported. Urged on by one of his brothers — as well as a young army clerk who gave him a book on the Harvard MBA — Yeo did enroll at HBS and earned his MBA with High Distinction. The MBA has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
coaches. Courtesy Susan Reno Myers “I thought with my business background I would be able to figure out a way to learn football quickly,” Myers told World’s Football News (August 30, 2007). “But if there’s a way to shortcut it, I can’t... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. With his extensive background in green businesses, finance, and turnarounds, it seems almost inevitable that Wiviott would help found... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Harvard’s vast network of leaders and founders.” All of the students bring strong technical backgrounds to the program—from fields including computer science, aerospace, health care, robotics, and the military—as well as experience in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
improve the sightlines from the sides of the auditorium. I hope our marketing department does a good job of filling those extra seats. Do you have a background in show biz? I loved the movies when I was growing up in Virginia, and was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
incubators that offer training, education, and networking opportunities to women of all backgrounds and social classes. “For a program to succeed, it needs to be integrated—through partnerships—into local communities and within... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
José Royo leaves footprints nearly everywhere he goes. A native of Spain, Royo was studying for his Ph.D. in East Asian studies at Harvard when he applied for a support job in information technology at the Business School in 1990. With his View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
Claudio (OPM 12, 1987) and Rosalie Haddad In 1998 Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) had achieved great success in a nearly 20-year banking career. He easily could have rested on his laurels, but instead, he left the world of finance to put his skills to work for education.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
large amount of debt. MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES MAKING DREAMS ATTAINABLE READ MORE STORIES “There are countless big problems that we have to solve in the world, from income inequality to climate change, and we need people from all View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Apr 2025
- News
Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships
Fund to ensure that promising students from underrepresented and lower-income backgrounds could afford the transformative experience of an HBS education. That generosity, rooted in Kraft’s own journey from modest beginnings in Brookline,... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
greater societal equality and a fiduciary obligation to shareholders, she writes. Like so many companies before us, my company, Rent the Runway, had two tiers of workers. Our salaried employees — who typically came from relatively privileged, educated View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
Kraft told the Boston Globe (February 6, 2002). "To see people of all backgrounds cheering for the team, we've accomplished part of our dream of being able to bring the community together." The organization's senior vice president and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
goggles. “You need to be able to see a wall, and react, before you hit it,” he explains. Because DRL provides broadcast-ready content to networks, it helps that Horbaczewski has a background in film production and special effects.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
were used to dealing with very tight deadlines. We were used to staying up all night to get the task completed. We were used to drawing on the collective talents of people with different backgrounds and melding all those skills together... View Details