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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by more than a decade. Today, the company routinely garners plaudits for its worklife balance and workforce diversity programs. One extraordinary IBM initiative that is both worker- and community-friendly, for example, allows... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
as cochair. Stevens, managing director of S-Cubed Capital and a former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, has invested in Internet companies for nearly two decades, but it was his own encounter with distance learning 30 years ago that... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
inappropriate behavior and misconduct with Noble alumni, and the board appointed Jones as his replacement. Now a year into the role, Jones talks to Associate Editor Jen Flint about how she faced the challenge of taking over an... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
battling it out over the issues of the day.” The Atlantic has been profitable for five years now, with advertising revenue up 40 percent over last year. For now, at least, all online content is free,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
about their career dreams when a bright-eyed 11-year-old boy shared his plan to be a scientist. “I want to bomb the enemy,” he told her. Mendhro pressed him about his response until he confided: “I don’t know anyone from this country.” “This was what he had grown View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
Henderson brought more than 30 years of experience in executive-leadership diversity training at places like Nike and Citigroup, and across business and organizations in Asia, Africa, and post-apartheid South Africa. And they brought... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
the dinner, he sent a limousine to our house to bring her to the School. But most touching of all: when my mother died, John came to her funeral service at the Village Church. Following the service, he gave me a big hug; it was like being picked View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it really can happen,” says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
Navarro Six years ago, Diego (“James”) Navarro (MBA ’89) completed what he calls “a 25-year apprenticeship,” though others might call it a successful career in the high-tech industry. But for Navarro, it was only training for the work... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Source: Greenwood Source: Greenwood Professor Robin Greenwood notes that faculty members across Harvard have long been exploring the behavioral perspective on financial market bubbles and financial crises. Five years ago, a group formed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Rolling on the River
New England is known for more than its apples and pumpkins. In early October, a bumper crop of over 2,000 alumni and guests popped up on the HBS campus to attend reunion celebrations for the MBA Classes of 1949, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979,... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
side. I ended up being an accounting major.” Jones worked for a year after graduation for Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) before heading to Harvard Law School. “I never planned to be in business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
two days a week from her country home and eventually left New York for good. Initially worried that she’d feel isolated in the country, Reade laughs and confides: “I met more people here my first week than in my nine years in New York.”... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
Foundation of Canada, notes, “They rarely have the cash or the time.” Four years ago, Goldstein helped launch the Upside Foundation to provide a platform for early-stage and high-growth companies to pledge a percentage of profits from... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Living and Learning in a Local Context
birth to five years old. And we provide a free, hearty, nutritious meal that has most of it grown on our farm. “What underpins a lot of our work is Appalachian culture and heritage. We're very true to trying to bring out the strengths of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
TERCEK: A tight strategic focus. Courtesy The Nature Conservancy Two years ago, Mark Tercek (MBA ’84) left his job at Goldman Sachs to become head of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the habitat-preserving organization that has some 3,700... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
company's leader is justifiably proud: twelve years ago, he was minding one store - located just down Soldiers Field Road from HBS. Today, he oversees an empire of almost one thousand stores - not bad for someone who was unemployed only... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman