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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
members of the HBS community and notable supporters of the School’s Global Initiative. As an investor, what was your biggest flop? I don’t think that way. What’s your proudest achievement? My family. If you have a decent family, nothing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
alley crevice. He remained motionless in the rain as the officers scoured the neighborhood with flashlights and, as dawn broke, with dogs. The Free Speech Memorial in Warsaw was unveiled on the 25th anniversary of the end of communism in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
to the HBS community on the occasion of Mason's death. Mason, who left the School last year to become president and CEO of Investment Technology Group, a New York based financial firm, joined the HBS faculty in 1980. In 1993, he was named... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
resonated with users,” says Hay, who now partners with banks (including UBS and JPMorgan Chase) that offer the napkins to customers. “People have always loved the form factor, the simplicity of it.” Napkins can take anywhere from a few... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
Hunt: an influential figure in the shaping of financial management practices. Courtesy HBS Communications Professor emeritus Pearson Hunt, an authority on corporate finance whose research helped shape modern financial management... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Leger’s manager at the World Bank encouraged her to apply to Harvard Business School and earn her MBA. “I found my time at HBS to be incredibly fulfilling—academically, intellectually, and socially,” she recalls. “My best memories of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
Russia; countries seeking reorientation and closer integration with Europe; and “ambivalent” countries torn between Russia and the West. At the time of the Soviet breakup, few in the international community would have predicted this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
said Representative Tom Rice (R-SC). Step Forward: Innovations and Collaborations Solutions include streamlining and fast-tracking key projects (e.g., New York's Tappan Zee Bridge); a national infrastructure bank (42 states have them);... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
costs, Dozie notes that “two years ago it was cheaper to put a store in London than on Victoria Island in Lagos.” That has led Café Neo to prioritize co-locations in offices: Counters inside businesses such as banks and insurance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Mehra (MBA 2009) Darren Brehm (MBA 2007) Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009) Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) Brian Elliot (MBA 2008) Friendfactor — SEF 2010 honoree Friendfactor is a social-action nonprofit that aims to educate and engage the straight View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
based primarily on data from a 2007 World Bank study of global economic prospects for 2030.* We showed it to important business leaders — some HBS alumni, some not — from around the world and asked them for their views on potential... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM scholarship program a primary focus of its fundraising activities because the program’s impact in the region is so far-reaching. “Our members have been most motivated to give back to the community through SPNM,” says Panoff. “This is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
discussed the Argentine crisis that began late last year. A professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Hausmann described the economic factors leading to the fiscal collapse and suggested policy implications for the future. Argentineans need to be given... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
companies. We're talking Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mary Barra of General Motors and Larry Fink of BlackRock and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America and Tim Cook from Apple and Robert Smith from Vista Equity Partners. And the list goes on and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
which connects farmers to food banks to reduce food waste and feed needy communities; Anne Hayes, executive director of The Food Project, which deploys youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds to work on farms and in urban gardens... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
Corporation in California. Returning to his native land in 1977, he worked at the Swiss National Bank and later served as Undersecretary for Foreign Economic Affairs before accepting the Nestlé USA position in 1990. Corti, who became... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons