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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
Long-standing obsession: cricket. (He supports Pakistan’s national team.) Amyn helped organize the first trek to Pakistan and also participated in the Alpha Fund, a student-run hedge fund affiliated with the HBS Investment Club. What’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
With national vacancy rates still in the 14 percent range and the economy generating fewer new jobs than in previous recoveries, no one sees much chance of a speculative building bubble for office space. “New construction just hasn’t gone... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
ABC News, FX, and National Geographic. Cohen’s priority from her new perch was “to get really clear about how we do good in the world,” she says. Cohen took a deep dive into the company’s mission, its 100-year history, and future... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
these problems. When we stepped back from our discussions and considered what was being said, it was clear that the golden goose—global market capitalism—was at risk from the impact of an interrelated set of forces more powerful than the economic and political... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
recognizing the devastating toll of war. “Ten weeks later we were at Arlington National Cemetery honoring the lives of 21 Americans who died when their helicopter got shot down.” That toll has been a guiding force for Mullen and his most... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
a quarterly basis. We also aggressively monitor the quality of these job placements. Almost 90 percent of the vets placed through our grantees are in those same jobs six months later; and the salaries they get (averaging just under $58,000) exceed the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
“Everyone talks about California’s budget problems and the impact on schools,” he notes. “But it’s usually just a small percentage of committed parents in each school who try to help.” By partnering with local and national businesses,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
which is often very different from what that person wants. You have been credited with 750 marriages. Is your long-term success rate better than the national average? I don’t have quantitative data on my divorce rate, but I’m going to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
day.” That management team, and many of Roshan’s early hires, consisted in part of foreign nationals like Khoja and Altaf Ladak, Roshan’s COO and a citizen of the UK. From the beginning, however, the goal has been to hire and train as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
changed naturally. That's what you want." Abdu S. Mukhtar (MBA '01), who worked for the National Kidney Foundation of Singapore (NKFS), became a nonprofit fellow the summer after he graduated from HBS, an unusual but not unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish that, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 removed each year through various mitigation strategies,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
research vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two years of renovations were required to turn it into the DSSV Pressure Drop, a name Vescovo borrowed from a spaceship in author Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
leaders. And these individuals will come onto the larger stage in the coming years. Consider, for example, Massachusetts congressman Seth Moulton (MBA/MPA 2011), a veteran, who is part of the new generation of leaders beginning to exert impact on our View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
is helping grow the pie for everyone. “How do I scale myself?” she asks. The Answers: I think Lily should prioritize three to five markets rather than being overwhelmed about a national expansion, and a couple of tactical next-steps come... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
might increase costs by 3–4 percent of world GDP, but the costs of inaction are far greater. She noted that, according to the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment, climate change could cost the US 10 percent of its GDP by the end of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It. And while his next move was to run the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank, he couldn’t shake the topic. It wasn’t just a professional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
the new hires in US venture capital firms in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused national attention on the need for increased... View Details