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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Spring greetings to all HBS alumni! The arrival of April signals the start of intense planning for spring events at HBS. The MBA spring reunions are fast approaching, and plans for the annual Club Officers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
finding allies in several HBS professors bolstered my confidence to take the leap. When I graduated, I had nothing but a business plan and the $3,000 pitch prize. Then came the $25,000 HBS fellowship in 2009. Today, we are a $3 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to walk beside Jim as he takes on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
entrants competing for a total of $17,500 in awards. The winning team, led by Lawrence Brewster (MBA '81), submitted a plan for an e-business in the health-care industry. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA '98) and Daphne Dufresne (MBA '99) were... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
Board of Directors of the Associates and assisting in the formation of the Asia-Pacific Research Center. Indeed, HBS research centers around the world have benefited greatly from the involvement of Class of 1976 members. In Silicon Valley, while View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
lesson plans before they arrive, to building a special cafeteria to accommodate school groups, where three shifts of 450 students eat lunch almost every weekday. While McCarter is proud that the Field has increased the number of... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
to include a mentoring component, at the request of the students themselves. As the 20th anniversary of Can Do approached in 2022, Wilfong was planning to wind down the program, but the scholarship recipients again shaped the program’s... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
manufacturer FMC Corporation. Burt appreciates the gift planning options available to support the School. “The folks at HBS helped us think through a life-income gift that made a lot of sense for us while giving back to Harvard,” says... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
professor Thomas N. Urban, recently retired chairman and CEO of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, participated as a mentor and resource. An alumnus of the first workshop, J.A. ("Gus") Blanchard III, president and CEO of Deluxe Corporation, also served as a resource in the... View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
afternoon session at ING-Furman Selz and an evening session at the Chase Manhattan Bank. In the afternoon segment, graduates of The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit program (a three-day Executive Education course for HBS alumni who are interested in starting new ventures)... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality
Micheal C. Kennedy (MBA 1985) is director of Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency. In this video, he talks about the need for public education and cooperation in areas of water quality and how to combat climate change. “When I was here, I wrote a business View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
offer from HBS, he says, came at a time when he was open to a new challenge. Mookerjee lost no time planning a research agenda. He convened a series of campus-based meetings with 35 HBS faculty members interested in India research. From... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
multi-disciplinary team project to create a business plan for commercializing research from a university or private sector lab. As Dean Nohria explained, "With student interest in entrepreneurship at an all-time high and with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
philanthropic structures Foundations, DAFs, and other vehicles are most often, in my experience, “pass through” entities wherein the donor uses the benefits of tax planning and simplicity of donation to give the money and then, over the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. CAN was founded by Doug Scott, who in 1975 made the first British ascent of Everest. Petzel met Scott at a Royal Geographic Society event and was inspired to assist the cause. For several years, he made personal... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Are You Dreaming Too Big?
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
NFL Players Hit the Books
Thirty-five NFL players traded their shoulder pads for notepads in late February to participate in an Executive Education program designed by the HBS faculty to help them prepare for careers after football. The NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
collar and a sketch on a Palo Alto bar napkin helped launch a tech giant. READ MORE Jen Flint: I wondered if the two of you could go back and tell us the story of how you wound up writing this business plan together as a school project... View Details