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- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
herself engaging on questions of policy solutions. When one student proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concerns about overlooking those who do not attend college. “Matriculating into college requires more than funds. It... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Department of Urban Studies and Planning and was director of research at MIT's Center for Real Estate Development. "Housing in any form is relatively more expensive for municipalities than most other uses of land," Wheeler notes. "It means View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
handwritten checks. They had burned it all down. And now they needed someone to help them rebuild it. In hindsight, Rothrock says, the answer to Sony’s break-in was to isolate and treat the affected area, not tear it all down. But he gets it—executives and View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
number of black students at HBS, the hiring of black faculty members, and the creation of more socially relevant electives. By establishing the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968, the five founders also hoped to support incoming black students and enhance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
graduates develop new social ventures. The sum here is greater than the individual parts. Behind the numbers of conference attendees and fellowship recipients is a shift in attitude and understanding. Social enterprise isn’t about charity work or handouts. It’s about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
and general management consulting services — all free of charge. “The five CAP volunteers assessed our agency carefully and gave me the kind of information I hadn’t had before,” says Alston-Follansbee. “They helped us realize that what we... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
debut on the public capital markets. It also has developed the corporate strategy for the country's Urban Development Authority; enabled a $400 million investment in transforming the education sector of the country; and formulated... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
that serves the employment, training, housing, and education needs of people with disabilities in Oregon and Washington, and Serendipity Center, a Portland school for at-risk youth. Chussil says the HBSAO program will place about six... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The flight deck had taken a beating from takeoffs and landings and needed to be resurfaced. Being a supply officer is like managing a small city. At the Naval Academy I was intrigued by the glamour of being a pilot or a ship driver, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
Woman, Deadpool, Red Sonja, and Poison Ivy. But Fighting to Belong! departs from that mold. The three graphic novels, which Chu cowrote with her son, Alexander Chang, cover the sweep of American history, with a curriculum guide that View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
immediate goal was to encourage MBA students to leverage their education to confront the most pressing challenges facing society. This spring, we helped teach our case study, West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward, in Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
creativity and flexibility, sparking innovation. The book is based on 25 years of research. (Smith began hers at HBS and is now a professor of management at the University of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics; Lewis is a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
you’re going to sell to a market.’” To ease the transition, Heifer provides far more than just healthy livestock. Nearly a thousand professionals in the field provide education and training in a range of technical areas. For instance, in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
earning engineering degrees at Rice University, Doerr came to HBS and learned, as he puts it, “to think and speak on my feet.” His education continued at chipmaker Intel, where he gained experience in View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
she profoundly impacted at different points in her life, but it seemed like her MBA education and the HBS community really served as the platform for Cycle for Survival. Jen galvanized a movement with her energy, courage, and... View Details