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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
action organization — to shape public policy on issues ranging from overfishing to suburban sprawl. Ullman did extensive research on environmental nonprofits before settling on E2, launched in Silicon Valley in June 2000 by Bob Epstein, cofounder of the database View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival rates. Two companies at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
short-term thinking—while companies that operate in good faith are overlooked. “You have people who are princes, who have good values, who treat people right,” Klarman says in the article. “We don’t tend to pay a lot of attention; we... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
technically be within the law but has no practical business purpose. It's just sleight of hand to reduce taxes without a legitimate reason. Typically, it's the bigger companies and multinationals that engage in this activity. People in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Amy Hilliard (MBA 1978) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Amy Hilliard (MBA 1978) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) The first time I walked into a university classroom as an instructor, not a student, it was the fall of 2019, and 45 students... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
partners Howard E. Cox Jr. (MBA 1969) and Henry F. McCance (MBA 1966), were honored in 2003 with an HBS Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of Greylock’s role in helping to build more than 250 companies and nurturing numerous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Digital Initiative to facilitate online and offline conversations around classroom topics. Responses ranged from oil companies to ice-cream makers and almost everything in between. We’ve excerpted a few of them here. Shake Shack Data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
and climate of bordering Iran, is capable of producing saffron that bests the benchmark in color, taste, and aroma, says the cofounder of the new social enterprise company Earth2Globe. The still-small 1,700 acres of Afghanistan’s saffron... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
"Lots of companies were buying the same products for different prices, and we were trying to make it more transparent. The problem was that the product users did not want transparency. We approached it like consultants, but I learned that... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
probability of being the wrong decision. If you can apply some data, you will heighten your probability of making a better decision." Howe isn't speaking theoretically. Today companies like his can capture, store, and analyze massive data... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
A NEW CASE SERIES, "Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American," written by Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda, was used for the first time in November in the first-year LEAD course. Part of a larger effort to focus on the experiences of female... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
we now have the idea that this is possible, and companies around the world are working hard on it.” To help senior executives and scientists at life science companies and related health care organizations... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA 2007) loved being a Broadway producer and came to HBS because she thought the live theater industry could learn a lot from other industries. She also loved her time on campus,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who you are. We had a very hard View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
chose our family business, Universal Food Systems. Little did I know at the time that within the year I would become CEO of that company when I was just 25 years old. As a result of the work in Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
secured an internship in banking and equity research, and in his junior year, he did a banking internship, both times at Credit Suisse. After graduation, Westphal spent two years working at JPMorgan, where he honed his business skills and... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
the air or clogging landfills appealed to Cardozo. He’d worked extensively in startups and spent some time in the corporate world, but now he wanted more than commercial success—he wanted to lead a company... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon