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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
much I didn't know," she says. Greenwich CEO Charley Ellis (MBA 1963) encouraged her to apply to HBS, and with the company profit-sharing program, she was able to finance her graduate education. "I was hell-bent on making the most of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Media Publishing In The Startup Lottery, veteran entrepreneur and Inc. 500 CEO Gus Bessalel provides an insider’s view of venture-capital-backed companies. You will learn how to navigate your startup career through stories, examples, and... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
consumer businesses. Wu recalls studying and discussing the network effects of the internet with his HBS classmates and realized these effects could unlock exponential growth for certain companies. He later invested in those types of Web 2.0 companies and became the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
an opportunity to create a fourth way that would lower the financial barrier to private-jet travel while guaranteeing high-quality service and aircraft through a partnership with NetJets. Allard and his... View Details
- 25 Jan 2023
- News
The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason
In January, Mark Mason (MBA 1995) was named to the 2022 Forbes CEO Next list, an annual list of 50 executives who are likely to lead some of America’s largest companies. Mason sat down for an interview with Diane Brady for an installment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
million. As Bad Boy’s CFO, Ferguson oversees a multifaceted hip-hop empire founded in 1993 by chairman and CEO Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, a Grammy Award–winning producer and recording artist in his own right. Sometimes criticized for its... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
feels his volunteer work not only has helped make measurable differences, but has allowed him to "make a special contribution by working on ways to connect the alumni to the School." Hajim, chairman and CEO of ING Furman Selz, considers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) has spent most of his career in restaurants, working in leadership positions at Yum! Brands and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts before becoming the CEO... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
light beers. It’s similar to the process that Anheuser-Busch has been using at several of its breweries since 1990, when it introduced O’Doul’s, the original NA beer. “O’Doul’s really created the category when it arrived and became... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
special.” Britt Cool’s plan to enter the investing world began as an undergrad at Harvard. She cofounded a women’s investing group on campus and visited Berkshire’s headquarters with the group. By the time she completed her MBA, she had encountered Berkshire View Details