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- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
are pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) degrees. We really need about 70 percent of our students to be graduating with proficiency in a STEM area, and so it is very, very important that we prepare kids at this age... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
understanding of the importance of helping one another.” After graduating from HBS with his wife and classmate, Fitzie, Petersmeyer was working for General Atlantic Energy in Denver when tragedy struck in 1985. Fitzie succumbed to cancer,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
alumni event attracted more than sixty HBS graduates representing biotechnology, e-commerce, managed care, and pharmaceutical companies. The program featured briefings from HBS faculty members interested in issues related to health-care... View Details
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
in the fields of business, finance, sport, and philanthropy. He is currently chairman of the private investment firm B-FLEXION, formerly Waypoint Capital. Born in Rome, he is a graduate of Babson College and Harvard Business School, where... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
industrial North to create better lives for themselves, their families, and the community." Powell applauded the many African-American HBS graduates whose support for the gathering helped attract a long list of corporate sponsors,... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
(SPNM) program. Each year, more than sixteen clubs send upward of fifty participants to this program. The Windy City club also annually sponsors eight Chicago Public School leaders to attend the joint HBS/Harvard Graduate School of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. She is also Harvard’s professor of History and of African and African American Studies, and a visiting professor at HBS. Elkins subsequently traveled to Lagos, to visit Belo-Osagie and his wife, Myma... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
even a few hours. Host a dinner at your home for recent graduates or current students. (We’ll even provide the food!) Put your name on the list of MBA Career Advisors, who make an hour available to a student who wants to know what it took... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
intelligence, but it was a challenge I was willing to take on,” says Strobel, who was assigned to the nuclear sub the USS Georgia after graduating from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in 2010 and doing a year of nuclear power training.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
such questions to people with some real answers - HBS alumni who have made the transition themselves. Making innovative use of technology to involve HBS graduates in the classroom, Garvin conducted a pilot program on the World Wide Web in... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
year the show is reinvented," she explains. "It's a lot like a startup." Scott has always sought out new challenges and ventures. After graduating from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught mathematics and business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler Manufacturing Co., a furniture... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation in the early 1980s. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
was difficulty with the English language. "Studying cases my first year was a nightmare," he recalls. "I'd seldom get to sleep before 2 a.m." But he perse- vered, graduated as a Baker Scholar, returned to Brazil, and worked for a number... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
three areas to address in committee this year: Alumni continuing education for the new millennium Online services for alumni Positioning clubs for the next century Each of these committees has important implications for you as a graduate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
gearing up to open its second center in Latin America over the summer. But Ryan, a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, was well prepared for the School's accelerating interest in international... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
- a staple of the club's schedule that features speakers from the high-tech sector - both welcome graduates from other prominent business schools. "Including alumni beyond HBS gives us a chance to meet new people, to ask questions, and to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
real estate in particular, Poorvu began teaching Real Property Asset Management and Field Studies in Real Property and writing cases at HBS in 1965. A former faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Poorvu is the author or... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
effective. "When I graduated from high school," Merkl says, "my father gave me 3,000 deutsche marks and told me to leave from the front door of the house and return at the back door, taking the long way around. As naïve as it sounds, I... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
everyone is a surgical candidate. This is perhaps the most difficult message to convey.” Why was having both an MD [Hwang graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2003] and an MBA from HBS important to you? “Well, the MD helped me get... View Details