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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Network Groups (DNGs) organized around particular constituencies but open to everyone. At present, some 29 DNGs have been formed, focusing on networking, mentoring/coaching, and community outreach. DNGs are encouraged to consider the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says Igun, who was born in Nigeria and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
practices and share knowledge with ever-widening audiences, in the process striving to address society’s greatest opportunities and challenges. Alumni and friends from around the world provide the financial support and guidance that help... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
He launched FairMarket from his Beacon Hill apartment in 1997. "When we set up our server, I had an engineer in my kitchen doing the programming, and we had a network cable running all over the floor. It was a total bootstrap operation,"... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
fanatical,” he recalls. “All I thought about was enabling young people to go from poverty to a professional career in one year.” Upon graduation, he moved to London, the hometown of his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Seattle, for example—are also centers of technological advancement, none has been able to duplicate the accelerated pace, the technical expertise, the outrageous dollar figures, the continued double-digit growth, or the extensive View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Relations, to visit each of the eleven first-year section classrooms and deliver an interactive presentation about the School's financial structure as well as an overview of alumni benefits and services. The Global Alumni Conference... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
the new program — before arriving on campus. “No other business school offers anything similar,” says Dee Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. “This is a bold program that is trying to do three things:... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
would produce even if there wasn’t a pandemic, as it is another chance for alumni to find inspiration. “This is about truly authentic leadership stories, from people whose work is amazing,” says Driscoll. “Coming from HBS, we are the establishment. We have the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
while many consultants can assess, advise, and strategize, Culture Shift goes further by capitalizing on the people they have brought together over the years through networking events. “I unintentionally built the nation’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
firm is pioneering interventions in Sri Lanka that will help transform the nation. In the past two years, York Street Partners has arranged the largest private equity investment in a non-banking financial institution and enabled one of... View Details