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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Milestone for HBS Alumna
Alvarez-Bjelland For the first time, the president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is a woman MBA from Harvard Business School. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (AB ’76, MBA ’79), who took office last summer, will focus her one-year term... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Whether it is dolphin-rights advocates and tuna producers, or insurance companies and victims of the 9/11 tragedy, Richard W. Edelman is interested in bringing different worlds together. He is comfortable with conflict, and his 25 years in the View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
recalls Fung, who had planned, like most of his classmates, to work in the United States. So it was with some reluctance in July 1972, with the ink barely dry on his diploma, that Fung answered a call from his mother to return to Hong Kong and help his father run the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Battalion Assistance Foundation, dedicated to assisting rangers and their families when their needs outstrip the Army’s abilities to meet them. Says Scherrer, who serves on the foundation’s board, “The Rangers are an elite special... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
a scenic overlook and galleries highlighting post–Vietnam era Marine Corps operations. “It’s very inspirational for Marines to go through the museum and to educate their families about what Marines have done in the history of this... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
1880s to Boston. And my mother's family came in the 1920s. We're such a large family, it seemed like there was a lot of Navy. But in reality, it's probably about 5 percent of each generation: my grandfather, my father, my uncle, my boys.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
Chicago in 1952. His biggest risk was putting me in charge of the New York office in 1981, when I was 27 years old. In five or six years, that office grew from 12 employees to 100. I didn’t know what I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
by a generous gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation, is designed to serve as a hub for Executive Education participants and a bridge to the HBS community. It will contain meeting rooms, View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, Andrew Tisch never had to seek out part-time jobs. Employment opportunities were everywhere in the family business, a chain of hotels in New Jersey, Florida, and New York City. “I started before I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
curveballs life throws.” After successfully leading turnarounds at Converse and Keds, Jacobson launched Strategic Grant Partners, a foundation and pro bono consulting firm that collaborates with social entrepreneurs to improve the lives of struggling View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
returning home to work in the family bank and, ultimately, found his own — Grand Bank in Grand Rapid. Stoddard sold Grand Bank in 2002, and he has since launched Grand Angels, an investment group aiming to help local entrepreneurs. After... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. Sitting in his sun-filled View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
the parking lot, he said the School needed someplace to bring students together,” and he gestured at the surrounding asphalt as the intended site. “I thought he was talking about a snack bar,” Spangler facetiously adds. “We went back to his View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
to do ours as a favor and at a price we could afford.” What comes next: “We have our system up and running and are working on making it more robust so it can scale. We were invited to work as entrepreneurs in residence at Highland Capital Partners’ Menlo Park View Details