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- 01 Feb 2000
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Tales Out of School
In 1994, Sarah Hoit (MBA '93) became director of business planning in the White House Office of National Service, designing and implementing AmeriCorps, the Clinton administration's $600 million national- and community-service... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
HBS, HMS, and Harvard’s School of Public Health. Two case protagonists were in attendance: Dr. Paul Farmer, an HMS professor and the subject of the best-seller Mountains Beyond Mountains, and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, executive secretary of the Rwandan View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
CEO looks like," noted Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92) , founder and CEO of the Boston-based Center for Women & Enterprise, which coordinated the New England event along with the National Women's Business Council. A study last July by the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sustainability at Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), managing director of Inherent Group; Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), president of CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), director of distributed energy ventures at National Grid.... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
As a boy in Asheboro, North Carolina, George Sondecker (MBA 2016) developed a fondness for launching rockets that evolved into a passion for working in the aerospace industry. A fellowship provided by gifts to the HBS Fund is helping him... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
developing nations as an engine for job creation back home (see article). Innovation is also the ticket to survival for smaller manufacturers, reports Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who talked with... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
awarded a Presidential Citizens Medal for his service. Subsequently, he devoted himself to advancing the cause of numerous nonprofits, in particular, serving as chairman until 2006 of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, following... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
apocalyptic pronouncements of pundits who declare the Internet an unprecedented development heralding the collapse of national authority. "They assert that in cyberspace, governments wither away, that they... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
role with the Trust, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, from the inner city to the wilderness, is to ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time—for his kids and their kids. "Children,"... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
turmoil, Goldberg remains as focused and busy as ever. He currently chairs a National Research Council subcommittee planning the direction of the U.S. government's future agricultural research, has been invited to lead food-policy task... View Details
- 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, View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I spent three years View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
George W. Bush (MBA ’75) that a high-level joint commission be formed to defuse business problems between the two countries. “We should not turn economic or trade issues into political ones,” he declared. Quoting Thomas Jefferson, Wen said that economic View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
broadly through Harvard Business Review, the online research forum HBS Working Knowledge, the annual “HBS Gender and Work Symposium,” academic journals, and national media. The Gender Initiative is illustrative of the School’s commitment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
the past decade, social enterprise has become an integral part of HBS and central to its mission of developing leaders who make a difference in the world,” he said. “This award reinforces that centrality by recognizing the vital... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
full glory of their wealthier pasts. The point is that they are becoming places where people want to live, shop, run businesses, and go to school." At HBS, a number of faculty are engaged in research and teaching projects that treat these recent View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson