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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize
"Wherever the action is, you find our alumni," said HBS Dean Kim B. Clark during a rousing opening address to this fall's reunion classes on September 26 in Burden Auditorium. Speaking to the MBA Classes of 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
experience.” In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, nearly 750 MBA students—triple the usual number thanks to alumni gifts to the HBS Fund—received funding under expanded eligibility criteria. In 2021, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
were able to translate their OPM learnings into increased success for their businesses. Their desire to thank the School for cultivating future leaders inspired them to fund two fellowships at Harvard, one for undergraduates and the other... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
cumulative, funded accounts. The steep growth slope has been up and to the right for many years and, on top of that, we’ve had incredible transactional volume with little lead time. It has definitely been... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
workers who have lost income because of COVID-19, including gardeners, janitors, construction workers, and housekeepers. Funded by donations, the group recently served its 100,000th meal. "I have two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
A twelfth-generation scion of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA '54) acquired a family business the old-fashioned way-he built it. Today he dedicates himself to... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a worldwide movement. And now we accept donations to help fund the worldwide movement and share the ethos, which has been a really wonderful part of becoming a nonprofit. Hanna: Great, and why do you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
money risk handicapping their venture if money dwindles or dries up completely. On the other hand, founders who accept funding risk losing control of their venture since there’s almost always an amount View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
in the fields of Pennsylvania. We also paid tribute to canine search-and-rescue organizations (dogs and their handlers) last December at the AKC/Eukanuba American Dog Classic show in Orlando, Florida. In addition, we have set up a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Most people have a conventional view of incarceration: People convicted of breaking the law are criminals, and criminals are locked up in big prisons with lots of other... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
fund. Very difficult to do that, but we did. It was the largest first-time fund ever raised and the third biggest in the world when it was raised. One of the younger partners at the firm brought this Edgcomb... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What a Difference a Community Can Make
and strengthening the faculty, recent investments guided by the School’s priorities are also funding innovations such as the Harvard i-lab, the FIELD course, HBX, and joint degree programs with other Harvard schools. From the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
2002. "Those firms signed up again because of the unmatched brand impact and revenue growth they gain from their association with the Games," he says. Romney is currently on leave as CEO of Bain Capital, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the world for their ability to minimize transaction costs, maximize liquidity and access, and fund a lot of very innovative and complex businesses. Unfortunately, the same forces that made markets so liquid... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
Tea’s products. We chose our name because tea evokes a sense of presence, connection, and timelessness.” Rawdon’s desire to foster these cross-cultural connections also led to Tea’s partnership with the Global View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
of North Carolina (based at its Chapel Hill campus) from 1986 to 1997, he increased enrollment and faculty funding while prioritizing educational quality and affordability. His devotion, generosity, and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set... View Details