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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Mahesh, as a member of the fourth generation and recipient of an engineering degree from Stanford, cites the importance of remaining true to the family culture while bringing something new to the table. “I’ve been living in the United... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
like what we call family medicine today. “We didn’t know about that concept at the time, but we thought people needed that kind of doctor,” Nomaguchi says. They named the company Platanus, after the tree under which Hippocrates taught the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
million gift to the University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), which also funded the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Program at HBS. The program connects recent alumni with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
Detroit from imminent bankruptcy will be futile. see article HBS professor Peter Tufano makes the case for allowing Americans to automatically buy U.S. savings bonds with their tax refunds, building family and national savings in a time... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
shows that cultures of overwork—rather than the lack of family-friendly policies—impede gender equity. The School’s own Life and Leadership After HBS alumni study, launched in 2012, is teasing out intricacies of career, work, and family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
in the academic literature, social scientists should focus their research on larger public problems. "That resonated with me," says Moss, who in 2005 founded the Tobin Project in collaboration with Poorvu Family Professor of Management... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
days, Leboyer was part of a convoy driving 16 refugees (and one dog) from the Polish town of Chelm to host families who would receive them in his hometown of Munich. Read his story of the experience. APRIL 13 Joel Poznansky (MBA 1986)... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes With InMobi and now Glance, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia from the ground up. Growing up in a View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
out brochures himself. With the financial backing of the Levi Strauss Foundation (made up mostly of Haas family members) and with additional resources, management advice, and advocacy support coming from the company, each Project Change... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
needed for the most important problems of our time.” The opioid epidemic is devastating our country and undermining our economic competitiveness, from the streets to the C-suites. It is a scourge whose complexities span the geopolitical to the intricacies of View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
consumption being wrapped up in our personal lives and experiences with others,” observes Professor Koehn. “Great brands are all about psychology, not only mass advertising or a neat logo.” A Viking range, for example, could represent meaningful time spent preparing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
and started to talk about how we could improve the situation. “We ended up with an idea of starting a smaller university focused to low-income students coming from the really poor families who were high achievers during high school. We... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai HBS Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) was working as a technology and innovation advisor in the San José mayor’s office in the fall of 2017 when he began thinking about the plight of View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In 1996, while standing beside her car after she and her family had pulled over on a quiet roadside in upstate New York, Langer sustained devastating leg injuries after she was struck by a vehicle whose driver had fallen asleep at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
husband, an importer of automobile parts, began considering some big changes. Beilharz quit her job to care for her first child and stayed home as her brood grew to four — now ages 9 through 18. In 1998, the family left Austin for an... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
something that people have always enjoyed doing but that very few have had the resources or time to pursue,” Sullivan says. ”By leveraging technology, the Internet, and network-effect scale, we’ve sparked mainstream interest in family... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City. They had... View Details