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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
provide microfinance to entrepreneurs. “People in developing countries grasp technology very quickly, but the big battle is literacy,” she remarks. Creating Web sites that use images and numbers instead of text is one tactic for crossing... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
City, and 10 or 12 of us would drive down to meet 60 to 70 wonderful, accomplished gay and lesbian alums. I was co-president of the GSA my second year, and after graduating I organized 15 of the NYC annual potlucks and served as both... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
rejection as well. What was your immediate reaction after the surgery at MGH? It was exhilarating! Each one of these procedures is teaching us an incredible amount about xenotransplantation, on top of being able to help these individuals... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
academia. The three areas have more in common than many think, Laidler-Kylander says. Best practices in leadership and management are applicable everywhere, but nonprofits come with additional organizational challenges. There’s often a disconnect between the user of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
attended a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration hosted by Walmart, on whose board she sits. While all the remarks were powerful, it was an essay written by an 11-year-old boy that stuck with Harris. “Here’s this kid telling us that we have... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
pursue. What are the support systems and resources provided at the labs to student and alumni ventures? What sustains this community is the incredible team here that works fully in service to students and alumni so they can be in View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the glow of his smartphone, ONE FC... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
Foreign Service Institute and is now the US chargé d’affaires to India. “A lot of what Harvard Business School has to offer is fundamental leadership training, change management, organizational management,... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Richard Ruback was his advisor. “Even before anyone was talking about ‘One Harvard,’ some of us were trying to make it happen,” notes Tunnell, whose 20th Reunion gift supports the HBS-Harvard Integration Fund. Now a managing director at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Alexander Mirza proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts, and offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins General Foods 1981 Joins McKinsey & Company 1983 Joins E.S.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked;... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Mind Your Manners
charges $16,000 for a three-month "hostess course" on manners, entertaining, and decorum. Including, but by no means limited to, how to use a knife and fork, the teachings of her institute, Ho explained, constitute "the first step in... View Details