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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
establish himself in investment banking and play a major role in the arts, philanthropy, and even diplomacy, as a special envoy to the Middle East. But he is best remembered for his ten-year run as president of the World Bank. Taking over a sclerotic, insular View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he briefly had a job creating facial-recognition software for airports. An entrepreneur at heart, he then launched and ultimately sold a successful instant messaging software company.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job by Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA 2004) (Portfolio) Becoming a full-time entrepreneur can look glamorous, but the truth is that entrepreneurship is often a slog. What... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
new public-private partnership to launch the city’s first cooking school. Within a few months of her hire, the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) had purchased an abandoned, 93,000-square-foot building in downtown New... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
doing, then it doesn't take any toll on you. I absolutely love what I do. If you look at the best technology companies today, they’ve been there for, you know, 25 years to probably 45 years. I think what’s happened in the world for the last few years is the model of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, teaches the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior. His research explores issues related to institutional change, innovation, industry and technology evolution,... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible and affordable to as many people who have... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
margins, want reform to be instituted through the familiar public-school structure. For their part, HBS graduates have long been involved in various education initiatives and reform efforts. Alumni have created and funded national... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
A faculty symposium, "Breaking New Ground: Initiatives in Management Education, 1980 - 1995," was held October 9-11 at HBS to honor former Dean John H. McArthur for the many initiatives in research and course development he instituted... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
qualities that define a leader? Where does one find a mentor? What are the ingredients in the recipe for success? Getting beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works by Roger L. Martin (MBA 1981) and Sally R. Osberg (Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the challenge. When banks and other View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded middle school, and served as... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
my brother, sister, and me during the hot summer months," Scher recalls. Scher attended Yale as an undergraduate, where she was active in the movement for divestment in South Africa, and then spent a year at the Institute for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
institutional bets on them. He was an investor in other people's ideas, and the support he gave was often indispensable." Thus, they have dubbed him an "intellectual venture capitalist." The editors point out that it is no coincidence... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
differences in status,” notes Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, whom McArthur recruited to develop the School’s entrepreneurship program. “You simply cannot survive as Dean unless you keep the faculty engaged in something that is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
concussions. That led to a meeting with Christopher Nowinski, a former Harvard football player and professional wrestler and the head of the Sports Legacy Institute at Boston University. Nowinski advised that the leading experts were... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
thought, and leadership abilities," says Parija. "In fact, it was then that I set my sights on someday attending HBS." Hill subsequently became CEO of a bank in Oman and took Parija with him. "In seven years, we did wonders by converting a bankrupt View Details