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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Lowell Robinson is a numbers guy, with a twist. "A company's numbers tell a story," says the reflective CFO and executive vice president of the Manhattan-based PRT Group Inc., a high-tech services firm. "When you make that story come... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
individual, a group of people, or some sort of board? Where would those people come from? New York? Nigeria? London? To my mind, it should be left up to the elected entity. If KPMG wanted to fly in a vice president from the Chicago... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
diverse: 35 percent are female, 33 percent are international representing 73 countries, and 21 percent are minorities. The median age is 27. Such diversity is essential to prepare MBAs to live and work in a global economy, Dewey explains. For all the change she has... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
featured a reception and speaking program. The Dean was introduced by Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997), president of the HBS Alumni Board. During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear and prize his... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
manufactures Good Grips brand kitchenware, focused on building a better squeeze bottle for use in bathing babies. To demonstrate the new easy-grip bottle, Wes Owen (HBS '00) stood at a table giving a bath to a baby-sized doll in a little tub. "The baby market is a big... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
fall with a celebration in Mexico City, with University President Drew Faust in attendance—was founded that same year to support Mexican students accepted to the University’s graduate and postgraduate programs. To date, the organization... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients such as Prudential, Colgate,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
in the San Francisco area. He is president of The BASIC Fund, which provides scholarships to Bay Area inner–city children to attend private schools. The proceeds from the Rock gift to HBS will be used to support a wide range of faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
opinion on their side, and they had friends in high places. In October, Go-Jek’s Makarim accompanied Indonesian President Joko Widodo on his first state visit to the United States. One of the stops was in Silicon Valley, where the View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
president and CEO of San Diego–based Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits, can attest: Last November, Constellation Brands (which owns Corona and Svedka vodka) acquired Ballast Point for approximately $1 billion. We asked Buechler to answer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
first entered the Olympics competition in 1996. A frequent speaker on finance, investment, and General Patton, Stillman is president of R.J. Stillman Company, his writing and publishing operation. HBS was a memorable experience for me, in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
On October 1, 1976, Jon Pellegrin (6th OPM), the then 32-year-old vice president of Wisconsin's Johnson Hill Press, walked solemnly into his father George's office. It was time. Slumping into the chair opposite his father's desk, he took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
film-related internships, which furthered her interests in movies and television, as did serving as director of the HBS Entertainment & Media Club, coproducer of the club’s annual Entertainment & Media Conference, and director of the HBS Show. Iyer also took on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to giving my traditional presentation to the MBA reunions as president of the HBS Alumni Association, I will also be addressing the Executive Education reunions about subjects of concern to all alumni. Six of the forty members of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
against Netscape, as the two companies vied for leadership in the Internet-browser software market during the mid-1990s. Based on extensive interviews with key officers and employees of Netscape - including founder Marc Andreessen and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
home, prepared to commit suicide, as most Pakistani peasant girls would do in that situation. Her parents, however, wouldn’t allow it. Mukhtar’s humiliation turned to rage, and she reported the rape to the police. It was such an unusual move that soon Pakistan’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
Barnard, that just doesn't happen. At Barnard, I have two desk drawers reserved for gifts of chocolate and nice notes. At Harvard, I kept spare batteries there. Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991), president of Barnard College, is the author,... View Details