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- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
100,000 kids have learned the game in the classroom through the joint efforts of Chess for Change and these other charities. And if he has his way, students all over the world will someday be advancing pawns and attacking bishops as part... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work, move, and consume. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
diversity of businesses and products that were virtually unimaginable before the advent of full-service financial institutions. Named president of the firm in 1984 and chairman in 1991, Fisher is widely recognized for his role in both envisioning and executing the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
With thirty years in the investment banking business under his belt, Richard L. Franyo (MBA ’72), then managing director of investment banking for Deutsche Bank, was ready for a change. But after a heady career that included playing a key... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career Army officer, he lived in many places in this country and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
on shaping and influencing the way tomorrow's leaders will change the world. The need for management faculty has never been greater; in recent years, a wave of faculty retirements, combined with a shortage of graduates with advanced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
significantly change the trajectory of their lives. I loved being part of that. You’ve talked about the pandemic as the gateway to the School’s future. What opportunities for HBS do you see ahead? I say this in the spirit of finding the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale social View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
growing institution is clearly changing education—and society—in Brazil. Haddad and his handpicked advisors also borrowed working practices from institutions around the world. “I wanted to bring the best ideas in education to Brazil,”... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
Kikkoman Corporation, whose roots stretch back to the seventeenth century, when the Mogi family began soy sauce production in Japan. The company was incorporated in 1917 as Noda Shoyu Co., Ltd., went public in 1949, and changed its name... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
narrative about themselves. How long will this take? It depends. Career changes take longer than transitioning between related jobs. “My general advice,” said Radtke, “is that it takes seventy meaningful... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Apr 2016
- News
First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
ride the half mile from their Radcliffe College dorm. A graduate of Howard University who was rejected on her first try applying to HBS (she freely admits she wasn’t adequately prepared), Lambert went on to a long and successful career as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
matter how secure you think you are in your job, you need to stay on top of trends and what it takes to stay competitive in your job market. I call it career currency, because it’s really all about staying current.” Even before a job... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
What to Do After Being Laid Off
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
to the workplace. As it turned out, many other HBS alumnae who left careers to raise children felt the same way. Now Rabin and another HBS graduate who relaunched her career, Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA ’85), have coauthored a guidebook for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
long-term success. But the world is changing rapidly—and this old one-and-done contract no longer applies. The skills and knowledge we need to manage and lead today’s organizations are in constant flux, and there is a growing need for... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project... View Details