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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
company, last fall Robinson joined PRT, a global firm that provides information technology solutions and services to Fortune 500 companies. He stepped in to help lead PRT's initial public offering just after its revenues had soared from... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
universal participation later on," notes Austin. "Over 60 percent of the recent graduates in the 25Ð 29 age group are involved with nonprofits; toward the other end of the career - ages 55 and above - almost 90 percent are involved, and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
gaps.” The mother of three has been using her business acumen in a dynamic partnership with economics professors John List and Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago and Roland Fryer at Harvard University, through the Chicago Heights... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
district work well, and it still hasn't been done. That's a real tragedy." His most recent school-related job ended in 1995, when he left his position as president of the organization responsible for fundraising and support of the Boston University/Chelsea View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
HBS alums Greg Avis (Summit Partners, MBA 1984), Chad Keck (Needham & Co., MBA 1976), Tom Volpe (Prudential Volpe, MBA 1976), and Tony Blenk (Everen Securities, MBA 1976), Crane led the company in acquiring 13 companies, raised four rounds of venture capital, and took... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
crisis. The program featured speakers Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at HBS, and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who talked about their latest books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and IMPACT:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
refund-savers would involve some changes in financial “plumbing” within the Treasury to build a pipeline between the IRS and the Bureau of the Public Debt, but it would not require a new bureaucracy, a new annual budget item, or even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
mission.” Nitin Nohria, University Distinguished Service Professor who served as Dean following Light, notes, “Jay gave me the best gift a new Dean could ask for: a School well-positioned for the future. Moreover, he was a trusted advisor... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
Director of Research and teaches courses in capital markets, international finance, and risk management. He received a BA from Stanford in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
Photos by Russ Campbell “An investment in the School is ultimately an investment in a better world—one led by alumni.” —John Hess “HBS graduates are in every part of the economy, in every industry, and in every geography. I believe we can effect change.” —Nitin Nohria... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
personal and professional qualifications. "There are significant risks to the company and candidates during a CEO search," adds Khurana. "For example, a candidate's loyalty and trust would immediately become suspect should his or her employer, investors, or the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
faces a herculean task, his supporters remain optimistic, buoyed by his record of achievement and his legendary ability to charm and persuade. Born in 1933 to a modest middle-class family in Sydney, Australia, where he attended university... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
each recipient. This amount is a small fraction of the overall cost associated with attending HBS, which is $125,000 for a single student. “Decreasing our students’ debt load will open up more career choices in both the public and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Virginia L. Davies (115th AMP) is a vice president at Goldman Sachs. She is a former vice president at the Bank of Montreal and previously worked for the Canadian Department of Justice. A native of Toronto, Davies attended Trinity College and earned an LLB from the Law... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
medium of photography since the author first took up a camera. Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do about It by Charles Ellis (MBA 1963), Alicia H. Munell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth (Oxford University Press) A concise... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Decline by Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills Cambridge University Press This book reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a school. Peering through her camera... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken