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- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
families. Led by Santa Clara University professor Juan Montermoso (DBA 1977), a member of the Community Partners team, SCU business students developed plans to engage area technology firms as partners or sponsors as well as create a... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
Action Nepal, a charity benefitting the people of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. In reaching Everest's summit just before his 40th birthday, Petzel committed to raising nearly $17,000—20 percent of the cost of a planned... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
impact on more than 300,000 students in schools nationwide. The idea for New Leaders was developed by Fenton and a group of other Harvard students in 2000 as an approach to an impending shortage of school principals. Their concept was a finalist in HBS’s annual... View Details
- 31 Jan 2022
- News
Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun
A recent article in Hispanic Executive profiles Michael Trejo (MBA 2013), who left a career in finance to return to his native Arizona and help grow a local business. As the article notes, his return was inevitable. “I always planned to... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details
- 10 Jul 2016
- News
Georgetown Dean Thomas Returns to Teaching
(photo courtesy of Georgetown University) (photo courtesy of Georgetown University) McDonough School of Business Dean David Thomas is stepping down after five years at Georgetown University with plans to move back into a research and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
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A Bid for the Future
offer, but Moret knew that Virginia could make a strong case. Both his own career and the planning he had undertaken in the early months of his tenure were perfectly aligned with this unexpected opportunity. Moret was first introduced to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
CEO also has a plan to empower her team. Synthesis uses Agile Action Planning—a trademark of the fast-paced world of software development—to help the CEO create a 90-day plan to achieve a tangible goal, such... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
Worth the Wait HBS plans a memorable Centennial year The first centennial I remember happened in my North Carolina hometown in the late 1950s. The men grew beards, wore funny hats, and puffed on awful-smelling cigars. The town held a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Every Gift Counts
Class of 1961 Smashing the 50th Reunion participation record and their own dollar goal, the class raised an impressive $11.8 million, with 77 percent of the class contributing. Reunion Gift Cochairs Frank Klapperich and Warren McFarlan, Participation Chair Roger Hauck,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Jump-Start
student teams, says Rock Center executive director Mike Roberts. “These are many of the same firms that regularly assist in our Business Plan Competition. They just want to see HBS students succeed.” Accel Partners Bain Capital Charles... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- News
Cooking Up New Opportunities in New Orleans
says she is bringing to bear all the skills she honed at HBS. She is building a team, leading the fund-raising effort, and overseeing the design plans to open the institute in two years. Any questions about coming to New Orleans have now... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
Plans that Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) had for an obstetrics practice ran into trouble when faced with unpaid claims and problems tracking patient records. In that, Bush saw an opportunity that forever changed the health records services... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
West with Chinese-made goods, which is what we used to do in my grandfather’s days. Li & Fung has thrived as a low-cost export-driven company. Will that continue to be your business model? No. We actually think that China will not be as cheap as before. Its new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
decision-making to negotiation. HBX Live is a virtual HBS classroom experience bringing together participants from around the world. Bridges, a three-day capstone course introduced in 2015, gives graduating MBA students an opportunity to reflect on their time at the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Digital abandoned plans to spin off the company, Lang resigned. "My vision was to take AltaVista public," she explains. "I don't believe in staying in a job where you can't be passionate about the results." Lang has spent the past year... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
Securities. Far from retirement, Volpe spent the summer with his wife and two teenage sons at their house in Maine, cooking up plans for his next venture. "I've always believed if you can get at the front end of a big wave," says the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
for almost any corporate type who joins a nonprofit. We bring new skills that may not have existed naturally before. The organization can quickly become rather dependent on you." Once told that producing good opera meant working as if one's life depended on it,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
helping plan the San Francisco and Hong Kong events. The Global Alumni Conferences are important to both graduates and the School, since they provide an opportunity for interaction in a focused setting at a level that is not typically... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
in social enterprise pursuits for the past twenty years, Scoon is the lead director of the Tufts Health Plan and has served in key positions in town government and in his church. "Being part of the Tufts Health View Details