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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
College, the authors argue that rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help make college decisions are out of step with the progress individual students are trying to make. They don't give students and families the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) It was building spreadsheets as an HBS intern at a private equity firm that convinced Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) that his future was in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
invariably take a close look at each and every boat. Very large power yachts have become a particular source of fascination. What are they like inside? Who owns them? Where do they go? In 2007, Doug Von Allmen, a private equity investor I... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
seeing? So I decided to do the same. I saved some money by giving private English lessons and I traveled back to the Dali myself that year. April White: So tell me a little bit more about Dali. Obviously, you had a perspective on it and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Helping high achievers achieve even more
As cofounder of Summit Partners, E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) spurred economic growth and created jobs in a broad range of industries, from fiber optics to pathology laboratories, to electronics and semiconductor manufacturers. Established in 1984, Summit Partners is a... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
trustees — to the institution’s continued success. Located on a 26-acre campus with state-of-the-art facilities, St. Johns is a pre-K through Grade 12 co-ed liberal arts private school with an enrollment of approximately 620 students.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
One Western Avenue
the area’s private housing market. The new structure, which has a 625-car underground parking garage, transforms the former surface parking and storage lot into a pedestrian-oriented graduate housing campus that includes 18,700 square... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the signal... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
LME Fund Makes HBS Dreams a Reality
Mcarthur, Ellis, Lebaron: Since 1983, providing financial aid to over 530 HBS students. In February, Dean Nitin Nohria hosted a private dinner at his residence, the Dean’s House, for a group of current HBS student fellowship recipients... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
Wednesday’s finals were the culmination of seven regional alumni competitions around the world that featured 152 teams. As the HBS News item notes, the more than 200 judges included “many HBS graduates, from fields such as venture capital, View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
authors, HBS professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, found reason for hope, arguing that continued erosion of US competitiveness is not inevitable. While there's much that government can and should do, they strongly believe that the View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Building Cities, spent two weeks in Ethiopia and Tanzania exploring ways the private sector could help finance and operate public infrastructure to achieve better outcomes. In August 2016, in partnership with the Gordon Institute of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
private life. These honorees, like their predecessors, are often in the limelight by virtue of their notable accomplishments and high-level positions in the private and public sectors. Curious about the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
top. A lot of the rhetoric about the need for an “intelligence czar” points in this direction. But we’ve seen in the private sector that, in highly turbulent environments, overly centralized organizations get overwhelmed by the View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
response to escalating health-care costs, and HBS professor Debora L. Spar on the market realities of adoption and in vitro fertilization (see “The Business of Babies”). For more information about the HBS Health Industry Alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
New on the Web at Alumni Career Services
point of readiness, the Alumni Career Services Web site provides a range of useful resources and programs. Men and women interested in serving on public or private boards also have a new résumé database designed to help them connect with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Countries’ disease-surveillance capacity can be strengthened with support from partners and technical agencies, to go along with their own investment. Compensation for farmers could encourage early reporting of outbreaks. Without timely View Details