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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Importance of Philanthropy
Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends over many years, HBS is fortunate to have an endowment that provides a foundation of support for core priorities. However, contrary to popular belief, the endowment does not cover all our View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Daniel Kafie (MBA '07): social networking games for Latin America. Photo courtesy Vostu.com It may have taken them two years to finally find their entrepreneurial feet in the online world of social media, but the three cofounders of... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
the city’s school board, where she ferreted out fiscal mismanagement in an attempt to bring the district back from the brink of financial insolvency. Before running for mayor, Cognetti also served as special assistant in Pennsylvania’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
stations.” Automakers, which have a vested interest in making that happen sooner rather than later, are not standing idly by. Ford, for example, is testing wireless charging technology, and last November, the automaker signed an agreement with BMW, Daimler, and VW to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
career and networking information, and access to many search engines and databases. For more information, check out the article on page 6 of this issue. This is a valuable resource for all HBS alumni, and I urge you to explore it the next... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
that have happened in the media business over the past three-plus decades," McGee said over coffee in Spangler Grill during a visit to campus last spring, noting that when he joined HBO it was a single network with fewer than three... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
(On Piskorski, see also here.) The day’s case, written by Jeff Bussgang (MBA ’95C) and Professors Piskorski and Tom Eisenmann, was about foursquare, a location-based social networking game. (For Bussgang’s blog about teaching his case,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Neighborhood Revival, former HBS senior lecturer Paul S. Grogan, who also served as Harvard's vice president for Government, Community, and Public Affairs, and coauthor Tony Proscio point to four encouraging trends that give cause for guarded optimism: the maturation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
getting customer feedback, and just being good at executing, then it could work in a variety of fields. But my hunch is our dramatic user growth and financial successes happened partly because we were in a highly leveraged environment. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
offers hard-earned wisdom about the true spirit of networking, a learned skill that can be mastered by anyone, even introverts. She debunks the notion that networking is a self-interested act. Instead, she reveals it to be a lifelong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Simon Lee, Director of Group Innovation and Emerging Technology, AIA Group; Leo Liu, VP of International Business and GM of North APAC & SEA, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence; Wei Liu, Founder & CEO, Video Rebirth and Former Chief AI Scientist of Tencent; and Jimmy Zhang,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says Igun, who was born in Nigeria and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
array of sectors before recruiting begins. Over an eight-week period in September and October, students learned about more than twelve different industries by attending an informational overview session; an alumni panel to share advice and provide View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
With some other people in the financial sector we started a charity called ARK—Absolute Return for Kids—and one of the things we did was start a network of academy schools, which were government schools that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
would be least disruptive to her advancement as a financial analyst. As she emphasized in her earlier Bulletin interviews, she has also depended on a family network comprising her and her husband's parents... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
into a New England institution and one of the leading consumer banks in the nation. Responding to demographic trends and consumer demands in the mid-1970s, Crozier moved quickly to launch a ubiquitous network of automated teller machines... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey