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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
microfinance and empowering poor women in more than forty countries to become entrepreneurs and change agents. Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (MBA ’65) The current chairman of The Carlyle Group and the former... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
physical perfection that traps women in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred. Yet beauty is also an industry in which women have been unusually prominent as View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic tactics and pioneering View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
competitive battleground. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
1920–2000: How It Worked, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of the entrepreneurs and companies that have left their impression on world industry. McCraw examines... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
business skills, she decided to fill out her business education by attending HBS, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar. Scher's career has already garnered accolades. She was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
battles for traction and respect. “We’ve made progress in Indonesia when it comes to gender equality, but we still have so much work to do,” she says, adding that entrepreneurship is one avenue for achieving equity. Kamdani, who founded the Angel Investment Network... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Executive Education programs, which were offered for the first time in 1997: The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Women Leading Business. These short programs update entrepreneurs and senior executives on the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
emergency—a problem that is particularly acute for women and their ability to save for retirement. “In the United States, women’s pensions or retirement plans are typically 35 percent less than men’s even though we live longer and our... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
meaningful advice to any entrepreneur seeking investor funding. Civility Rules! Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility By Shelby Joy Scarbrough (OPM 47, 2015) Forbes Books While our civilization continues to advance, our capacity to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
gained influence. Influence transcended power, and power politics contrasted with quiet service. Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 Years of Flight by Elizabeth Gillan Muir (HRPBA 1958) (Dundurn Press) This is the story of how View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
approach to evaluating job candidates is virtually bias-free when compared with traditional methods: Men and women perform almost identically on the game-based assessments, with only minute variations occurring across racial and ethnic... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Corporation, where he was involved in product planning for their Music Video on Demand software. So how did an aspiring entrepreneur with an engineering degree become a rock star at Harvard Business School? Easy. He just asked. "At the... View Details