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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7 billion in annual sales, Harf is a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
newspaper and bought his first stock, in Johnson & Johnson. As a teenager, he delivered the weekday afternoon and Sunday Baltimore Sun and ran a snow removal/lawn mowing business. In high school, he took an interest in coin and stamp collecting, horse racing, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. "I just really lacked direction, and needed to focus," says Trejo, who had a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
long lives and were able to witness their son's remarkable success. With his own children, Jakurski advises them to let passion for what they do be their primary metric. "When you have a lot of barriers in life," he says, thinking of his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
importantly, Clayton had a passion for helping others be their best selves that permeated every aspect of his life. His loss will be felt deeply by many in our community and his legacy will be long-lasting.” A gifted teacher across all of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
eyeglasses. They took a selfie. But it wasn’t until the second-year MBA course Entrepreneurial Finance that they discovered another similarity: Each was passionate about starting a business. “We got coffee in Spangler Grille one day after... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
their nine-year- old daughter, Justine, and eight-year-old son, David. "Right now, I see my children mostly on weekends," he notes. "I want to change that." His other enduring passion is Fountain House, an innovative rehabilitation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
as the EAEF’s slow pace of investment.) “I started to make friends with staffers on the Hill,” Enan recalls. “I think they liked hearing how passionately I believed in the investment opportunities—what it meant to Egypt and to me... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
to another important facet of the McKinsey culture--giving back to society. "I've always spent 15 to 20 percent of my time helping nonprofit organizations whose mission and leadership I've felt passionate about, among them Wesleyan, the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
is spectacularly good at opening people's ears to others and requiring them to make an articulate argument," she observes. Having discovered a passion for marketing at HBS, Jacobson moved to New York to join Colgate-Palmolive and was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
community.” HARVARD INNOVATION LABS: WHERE PASSION AND PURPOSE MEET The Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem has been called a place of “structured serendipity” where innovation is fueled by connection and collaboration. The labs enable... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
complete his master’s degree in Religion in Public Life later in 2017 and is looking forward to activities “that merge my passions for community development work, business, and ministry.” A comprehensive thesis on overcoming childhood... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
a profile of Nisa for which she declined to comment, calling her "mercurial" and cataloging her "tough-as-nails culture." Nathani-Menzies says that Nisa is passionate about the business, but always to a constructive end. "Over the years,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
mothers to achieve. Dlodlo grew up in Cameroon, where her ethnic group, the Bamiléké, are known as traders and businesspeople. Her mother was a bank executive; her father, a civil servant with a passion for real estate. The latter built a... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
re-investment has been the hallmark of his entire career. “When I applied to HBS, I was a TV reporter,” Ayala says. “I wanted to figure out how media can generate more profit and then therefore plow more money back into really useful things. My View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
at HBS. While working to become a doctor made her “not a typical partner,” she enjoyed meeting her husband’s classmates and being introduced to the case method, both of which left a lasting imprint on her. “I’ve been impressed with the View Details