Executive Committees - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
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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

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2009
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Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

wisely to meet those needs. The board, a diverse group of almost fifty MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education graduates, works with the School’s leadership to develop programs and resources for alumni. Over the past year, and under the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

meetings a year in Boston (as well as the annual Global Alumni Conference), and be an active participant in the Board's activities. The 1996-97 Board consists of 36 members (not including ex officio): 88 percent are MBA alumni and 12 percent have graduated from the... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

since your alumni director discovered that he had inherited an editorship along with his other problems, the Bulletin Policy Committee has been advising him to make a regular feature of two or three pages of interesting stuff about the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature

the boards of Sarah Lawrence College (his late wife, Mary Lawrence Clifford, was Sarah Lawrence’s great-great-granddaughter) and the American Museum of Natural History, where, as a member of the Executive View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

20 Apr 2016
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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

05 Feb 2016
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The Wheel of the World

as an MBA student. An American octagon school clock, it still hangs in the Sussex, New Jersey, home that Mueller-Maerki shares with his wife, Ruth. Much has happened in the years since those hobbyist beginnings. In addition to raising a family and leading a successful... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

1998, was appointed to the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught in the MBA, AMP, and OPM programs, and continues to teach in executive programs at HBS and overseas. His current research focuses on Islamic banking and investment practices, the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

become chairman, CEO, and executive editor of Africa.com LLC. In this capacity, she has traveled with President Obama to Africa, produced and directed a documentary about Africa, and lectured at numerous Ivy League universities on Africa.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

Against Discrimination, led a town meeting on lessons learned from last year's revelations of racist attitudes among certain corporate executives at Texaco. Hugh B. Price, president and CEO of the National Urban League, concluded the... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home

Image by C.J. Burton Since the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program was launched at HBS 17 years ago, it has provided nonprofits with something they need but can rarely afford: executive training. SPNM, which is... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

and rural development in the areas where its workers live, funding efforts, for instance, in primary school education, agriculture, and health care. As a longtime leader of his country's business community, Bajaj is the only top executive... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

are based on merit and—unusual among graduate business schools—financial aid is based on need. In 1910, four Visiting Committee members launched an $850 financial assistance fund. Since then, the MBA fellowship budget has grown to more... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

customers and from outside the industry), decision agility (anticipating changes and turning even troubling trends into opportunities), and execution agility (building new capabilities, shedding what doesn’t fit, and taking the first... View Details

26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

for all of Poland?’ He hesitatingly responded, ‘Let’s start small,’” Diamond recalls. “In the next few years, we signed a formal agreement with the archives.” As activities grew, JRI-Poland formed an executive View Details