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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager and sports director of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), which has... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
seen this scale of refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Second, from the late 1990s, the EU has been putting in place common border policies and a common asylum system, but this new institutional infrastructure has not been tested before. People who... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Kierstead. “The impact of the Fellowship Program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the success of the School, cannot be overstated,” she adds. “A number of students have come up to me and said, ‘I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of this approach is time. We live... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
An Air Force brat whose most frequent home while growing up was San Antonio, Texas, Tumulty attended the University of Texas at Austin, a hotbed of journalism that has produced household names such as Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers. "In... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
more than $500 million, Esquel makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world. Guiding the firm to such prominence has been Margie Yang, a combination of energy, style, and determination who gave up her job at First... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
of business operations support, the plucky British expatriate recounts her "life's ups and downs," as she puts it, with humor and grace. One of Barron's first setbacks came in the late 1960s, when she arrived in the United States as a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the development of "listserves" (mailing lists of like-minded people's e-mail addresses). Alumni Career Services HBS alumni are experiencing more transitions in their professional lives than in previous years. In fact, alumni are viewing career View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
with HBS professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, Pisano says, “One of our key messages is to get students to appreciate that manufacturing involves a lot of knowledge work. There has been almost a whole generation of MBA students and View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
“We’re not trying to bend the laws of physics. We are trying to enhance control. We’re trying to grow 365 days a year.” Lo is an admittedly unlikely farmer. She grew up as the daughter of Korean diplomats, a life that provided her with a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Investment Counsel, which became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa. In 1988, he left Cape Town to start an international investment firm, launching Orbis Investment View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
management system that's held together with baling wire. It's an unacceptable situation that will require sustained attention and support over time to correct. Tell us about your modernizing effort and its focus on improving the IRS's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, and since then many have stepped... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna