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- 18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart
primary school readers develop learning concepts and reading skills, and offers books in many languages, including Arabic, English, Hindi, and Spanish. They also built a diverse domestic advisory board that includes, among others, Sandra... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
organizational development, board meetings, strategy sessions, stakeholder outreach, and other CEO duties. In addition to its lead product, the company’s research pipeline now includes potential therapies for a variety of disabling... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
group champion for this unusual competition. Although he shies away from social events, Hellman and his wife of 47 years, Chris, are involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. He is chairman of the board of The Magnes Museum, and she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
committee's board of trustees was going to call: Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney (MBA '74, JD '75). Although he is a Massachusetts resident, Romney's Utah roots run deep: his ancestors journeyed west with Brigham Young, his parents were... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx event at Institut Le Rosey—a... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
address the disproportionally male makeup of corporate boards. The code allows boards to implement their own gender-diversity policies and explicitly identifies merit as a consideration. Companies are not required to follow the code, but... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per year over a period of 10 years. In 2002, Harf joined the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
the way to the Canadian border—a “thrilling education.” And the summer after that, he bought a Model T for $50 and drove from New England to British Columbia. There, he sold the broken-down car for train fare and rode the boards back... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
their date of birth, nonprofit and corporate board memberships and years served, and multiple layers of prior employment (company, job title, and years). Even had Val, Doris, and Marianna’s duties not expanded over the years, just the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and staying engaged in some way are intrinsic to sustaining both confidence and opportunities. Serving on meaningful nonprofit boards that deal with serious business issues is one good route. Part-time projects and consulting is another.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man between corporate America and the U.S. government. President... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Taylor Jenkins Reid with Amazon. “They were both supposed to be filming now; we’re obviously waiting to see when it’s safe to come back.” Thumbtack North Star: “At graduation, Dean Kim Clark told us, ‘No success in business will ever make up for a failure at home.’... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
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Hitting the High Notes
Board Chairman for the Aronson Cello Festival (ACF). Filmmaker Ty Kim (MBA 2000) chats with Cellist Ben Hong before the show. (photos by Sabrina Kim) Cellist Ben Hong performs at the Aronson Cello Festival concert for the HBSA of Southern... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
Illustration by Chris Gash In 2011, Evan Marwell (MBA 1992) was serving on the board of his daughter’s school in San Francisco when he discovered something surprising: The school’s Wi-Fi was terrible. He was asking the teachers about... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
the Baker Library Management Research Center. The site, which initially granted access only to research databases, was offered to a test group made up of some 250 members of the Class of 1999, participants in the Advanced Management Program, and volunteers from the HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
from 2001 to 2005 and chaired Executive Education’s OPM Program and the Publications Review Board for Harvard Business Review Press. Outside academia, he has served on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards. Stevenson will “retire” this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about money. The “true costs,” argue... View Details