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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
to do ours as a favor and at a price we could afford.” What comes next: “We have our system up and running and are working on making it more robust so it can scale. We were invited to work as entrepreneurs in residence at Highland Capital Partners’ Menlo Park View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
the parking lot, he said the School needed someplace to bring students together,” and he gestured at the surrounding asphalt as the intended site. “I thought he was talking about a snack bar,” Spangler facetiously adds. “We went back to his View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
He calls the hood of a rusty Chevy truck his “conference area” and the passenger seat his “desk.” His part-time help is his fiancée, whom he first recruited to his 1,400-acre Achille, Oklahoma, ranch with the promise of fresh blackberries. Davis has no View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
the hallways, patients and their families mingle with physicians in loose-fitting scrubs making their rounds, earnest administrators with armfuls of files, busy nurses, and other hospital personnel who team up to make MGH a world-famous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
inheritance to purchase the Wall Drug Store in 1931, it was just that: a drug store. At the height of the Great Depression, in a part of the country sometimes described as “the geographic center of nowhere,” the family struggled to make... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
investor, you absolutely need to be versed in more than just finance,” elaborates Krebs, now running a family office in San Francisco. “You need to understand leadership. That’s where the HBS general... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
supporting scores of students in his native Malaysia both academically and financially—and in many cases through graduate school. The project started in 1996, in the midst of Ramalingam’s career in manufacturing and consulting, when a woman who cleaned his View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate developer, but it just came... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Ensuring that quality, Teo says, means focusing not only on growing fast but also on growing well. For Funding Societies, that means a borrower must have at least $250,000 in revenue and meet with a loan officer before the Funding... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
of his departure to attend HBS, Weeks was called into the office of CEO Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962). As Weeks tells it, Houghton, whose storied family had run the company since 1851, asked him to return to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
Mookerjee recently served as managing director of Capital One’s Asia business ventures, based in Bangalore, India. When that assignment ended in June 2004, he decided to remain with his family in India and subsequently launched an... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
Goldman, where he has worked since earning his MBA. The company actively looks to hire veterans through its Veterans Integration Program and other initiatives, and York is involved in nonprofit programs supported by Goldman that help them return to civilian life. “My... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Nightmare?" - speakers were clearly of the "gold mine" persuasion. Billy Lam of the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office wowed the audience with his numbers. The new Chek Lap Kok airport, which is to open in April 1998, and the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
wondering whether their families will be able to join them for Commencement, faculty are debating whether they should travel to conduct their research and teaching, class visitors are cancelling their trips, alumni are uncertain whether... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
systems. As if he weren’t busy enough, Jain is also involved in expanding the services and facilities at a health center his family started years ago in its ancestral village in the state of Rajasthan, India. “We’ll soon have a dialysis... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice