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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
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teachings of Muhammad prohibit Muslims from accepting or charging interest. As oil prices and the individual incomes of many Muslims in the Middle East skyrocketed in the 1970s, so too did the need for financial instruments that allowed... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
nonprofit and social sector. Greg Dees, Kash Rangan, and others were instrumental in this effort, which told students that they could be entrepreneurs. It was validation that it was important and even urgent for them to do so. Nowadays... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press) DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, lays out the roots of high achievers’ anxiety (fear of being wrong, lack of a sense of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
promoting management education in Germany. He was instrumental in founding the University of Koblenz/Vallendar for Executive Management - the first such private institution in Germany - and coauthored various business texts, including... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
power plant, she ultimately rose to be president of Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation, within the Integrys Energy Group. “I had several instrumental leaders who believed in me, who saw my... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
a dirty product that was a consequence of deregulation. Our government decided at some point it was OK to sell instruments that were known to be dangerous. “You can’t go anywhere in America and buy a toaster that has a one in five chance... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
great pipeline of diverse talent is a big part of that.” Comer says he’s excited to support Morris Brown’s resurgence with this partnership, “particularly given how instrumental the college was in my personal development as a business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
moment Kremer fell ill, HBS was there. Classmates Guy Yamen, Nate Boaz and Andrea Marano were instrumental in helping launch the organization. Professor Jan Hammond, his section adviser, made the calls that got him an appointment with Dr.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools. Made for Amazing: An Instrumental Journey of Authentic Leadership Transformation by Mark Nation (MBA 2001) (Greenleaf Book Group Press) In this self-help parable, Nation tells the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government approval of the first 100-percent American-owned medical manufacturing license since the American occupation and took over the joint venture. I learned from the experience to assure the loyalty of those working for me. I left Baxter, and acquired a US... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
and the case of the Challenger disaster. The first one, because we’re still working on finding the ‘job’ that VR does for the majority of people today, and this framework has been instrumental in framing our development and messaging for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
this century, the Patriots are said by Forbes magazine to be worth $1.8 billion. Robert Kraft, whom Sports Illustrated recently declared is the second-most powerful person in the NFL after the commissioner, has been instrumental to the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
the pandemic spread around the world, HBS’s 15 global centers and offices have been instrumental in supporting faculty researching the impact of the pandemic and supporting alumni who have faced unprecedented challenges in its wake. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
worked.” “It’s not a quick fix,” adds Holmes. There are deep repairs still necessary, she notes, both cultural and environmental. That work continues. “But it is enormously helpful to have this kind of blueprint.” The protections hammered out in the Great Bear... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Hofmeyr (43rd PMD), and Peter G. Wrighton (64th AMP) - were key members of the Consultative Business Movement, formed by the business community in the 1980s to facilitate the transition process. "Those individuals were instrumental in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Inclusion. In all of our efforts around diversity and inclusion, we regularly solicit input from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council (DEI), a group that student leaders of five marginalized communities in the MBA Program created three years ago. The DEI... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
particular talent that you wish you had? I wish I had an ear for foreign languages. And I’m not a very good dancer. What was your first job? In college I was a warehouseman at Ford. I would push a cart around and collect instrument panels... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
over the years. The importance of women as consumers, in particular, has led to a long-standing critique of the industry as an instrument for the oppression of women by men (and their corporations). Feminist writers have regularly blamed... View Details