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- 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
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
different departments. "NABCO was instrumental in changing the course of breast cancer screening, treatment, and care," she says. "Our physician and corporate partnerships to educate women replaced fear with facts. We helped craft and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth noting that individual donors are... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
multinationals could and may already be a powerful instrument in the pursuit of human rights." Alumni may request copies of HBS working papers by calling 617-495-6852. View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
toolkits and you will find instruments for brain scanning and eye tracking, as well as experiments to test psychological and physiological responses. Beware, future MBAs: Can a cold call of a student’s galvanic skin response be far away?... 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
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
priced. So they see that even with an instrument that never existed before they came into the classroom that day, the theory allows us to price it and measure its risk. Bulletin: When did you first become interested in the field of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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