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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Borg in the United States in Malden, a suburb of Boston, last year. (Matt DuPlessie [MBA 2003] is a minority owner; his company, 5 Wits, constructed some of the quests.) Boda Borg Boston is designed first and foremost to be fun—with 17... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
enroll at HBS. "With minorities now present in most professions, I see a lot of promise for white and black America to come together," he says. "I also believe it's possible to help people who are downtrodden and desperate to transform... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
significant changes took place at HBS during Fouraker's tenure as Dean, including sizable increases in the numbers of women and minority students; new curriculum initiatives in ethics, business and government, human resource management,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
bridge the divide between the organic feel of a live game with the instant pleasures of technology to create something unique? That’s where augmented reality comes into the picture. Say you’re watching the Erie SeaWolves, one of the first View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
Thomas A. James “As an undergrad at Harvard, I majored in economics and minored in philosophy. There are a lot of connections between the two.” During 40 years as CEO of Raymond James Financial, James, a Baker Scholar, transformed the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Kudos from the Academy
HBS faculty members and doctoral students were prominent among honorees at the Academy of Management's annual conference, held last summer in Washington, D.C. For their book Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
notes. John Rice is the CEO and founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow, a national nonprofit that equips underrepresented minorities with the tools to become high-impact leaders. Its Black Equity at Work Certification program... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
Conducting an independent study project during his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA ’92) learned that many talented minority college students didn’t know much about the business world, and therefore leaned toward careers in law or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
exceed analyst expectations. Businesses do not grow that way. If they’re managed well, they grow incrementally, with minor setbacks. The model that we have come to rely on — that companies’ earnings grow smoothly — is just not right. Do... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
despite minor language barriers. “Rugby is its own language; it connects people,” said Rush. “I’ve always said that on-field rugby behavior is policed somewhat by the fact that you have to interact with your opponents at the party... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
education programs like Kellogg’s Women’s Director Development Program or participation in associations like the Latino Corporate Directors Association weighed when considering candidates for board roles? Are educational and networking opportunities something women and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Finance and the Economic Recovery
Meanwhile, many HBS alumni, in addition to helping their own organizations manage through the pandemic, have been leading initiatives to assist businesses and individuals that have been disproportionally impacted, especially women and View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
classmates who had once been in the majority were now minority students, getting picked on by their Caucasian classmates. Shockingly, about 40 percent of Native American freshmen dropped out within the first two weeks. Essentially, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
about seventy minority students, most of them wearing dashikis and Afro hairstyles; and around thirty brave-hearted women." Within a month, O'Donnell recalls, "the three-piece-suit culture was dead. We dressed casually, and a lot of us... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
friends were in the minority among their HBS classmates, many of whom aspired to join Wall Street. As it turned out, “entrepreneurial resourcefulness,” as Puritz calls it, has served them well throughout their careers and in the launch of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
targets STEM and healthcare students with 5-year income share agreements that set aside a fixed percentage of a recipient’s future earnings. (The firm collects nothing if a client earns less than $40,000 annually.) Women and minorities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
describe two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan (i.e., the government) as a majority and a minority investor. They discuss the implications of such innovations using data from Brazil between 1976 and 2009. As majority investors,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
the minority in how they viewed this choice. “The course does a good job of highlighting the conflicts that are inherent in this business, such as the tension between investment professionals and their investors,” El-Hage says. “It trains... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Here, a few SVMP alumni who went on to graduate from HBS describe their first impressions of the program and how it influenced them. Karen Caswelch Photo courtesy of Karen Caswelch Karen Caswelch (SVMP 1983, MBA 1988) CEO, Akoya, Inc. Indianapolis "I heard about SVMP... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details