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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high schoolers in the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
backgrounds. Following the Dean's visit to New York, he will travel to Los Angeles on March 21 for evening events with alumni in southern California. Additional international events are being planned for later this spring. The Dean began this series of alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
ACOG who are Vietnam vets liken it to the experience of being on patrol in the jungle one day and stepping off a plane in Seattle or San Francisco the next evening. After years of being totally consumed by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
instead of monthly,” says Zablatsky, who moved from Boston to San Francisco three years ago and helped grow the number of forums at the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSANC) from two groups to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
cultural consecration does not necessarily translate to higher auction prices. Artist Barry McGee, for instance, started in the 1990s graffiti scene in San Francisco and has had a long, revered career filled... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom pushed that approach. I tend to run toward solutions too quickly. Many people do.” Tech time travel: “I fantasize about a Jetsons-style flying saucer that will teleport me above the San View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
armor. The Portrait Project shows their human side.” Deifell’s 15-year (and counting) commitment to the project involves working with a team of student volunteers who solicit essays (selecting 32 from an anonymous pool of approximately 100) and returning to campus from... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steam-powered cable car in San Francisco in the 1870s inaugurated the era of street railways in urban areas (it also spared horses the burden of pulling heavy loads up and down the city’s steep roads).... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
and meetings with alumnae in Boston, New York, and San Francisco to generate ideas about what HBS alumnae wanted and how the School could help. "It was a quest to see whether they were interested in... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to California, first to build a risk... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
started with an IndieGogo campaign, which already has the support of 500 people and obtained fiscal sponsorship from the prestigious San Francisco Film Society. Climate change is a story about all of us, so... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
Hotel, here in the Fisherman’s Wharf area. It’s located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, in a 1907 warehouse that shares a courtyard with the Cannery complex. We preserved many of the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
Women’s Leadership Accelerator in San Francisco this past March, where some 250 alumnae participated in a daylong program. Topics determined by the alumnae program committee included career pivots, social... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
50 years from now?” Both Druyan and Hao say the award has become quite prestigious among the world’s top entrepreneurs and venture capital firms, and winners are excited to be honored by HBS alumni. The event, which is open to the public, has been a gala dinner in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes and rolling blackouts, so Dawe volunteered to work on two ballot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Partner U.S. Venture Partners Bowes Jr. After founding U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco in 1981, Bill Bowes helped shape companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Applied Biosystems, and Ross... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
campus for all alumni in the Greater Boston region on April 26, followed by events in San Francisco and Los Angeles in June. "This campaign gives us new opportunities to connect with our alumni," Hess noted.... View Details