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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
Embarrassing losses to the JVs have the varsity crew members dispirited and complaining about one another. Confidence is fading fast. The national rowing tournament is a week away. Should Coach P simply declare the JV boat to be the new... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector Describing his organization's mission as one focused on issues of poverty and equity, World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) addressed the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
leadership development services to some 350 clients, including the Salvation Army World Service Office, Harlem Children’s Zone, National Council on Aging, and KIPP Foundation. The core of Bridgespan’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Jaegle, an MBA candidate who co-leads HBS’s rowing team, met with a Harvard College strategist who surfs, a brilliant inventor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Harvard Medical School physician-in-training with United Nations... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an opportunity to restore some measure... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
industry as another catalyst was gathering critical mass: the dynamic pairing of television and sports. Neil R. Austrian (MBA '68), president of the National Football League, explains: "The 1958 Colts-Giants overtime game was the NFL's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Fellowships Open Doors
of person who can open doors for others.” Photo captions: Carolyn and Warren Luke (MBA ’70), chairman and CEO of Hawaii National Bank, pose with the five fellowship recipients they sponsor: Connie Ma (HBS ’05), Ling Hu (HBS ’05), Kaili... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
and CEO for ten years at National Industries for the Blind, a venerable nonprofit that he turned into a results-oriented, 21st-century enterprise that enhances economic opportunities and professional View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s early clients, HCZ needed help... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
national study on the efficacy of charter schools, and the results were jarring: Just 17 percent of charter schools outperformed their traditional public-school peers, while 37 percent performed significantly worse. And while charter... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
even as he enjoyed a successful career as a high-flying real-estate dealmaker at Dean Witter Reynolds. Then he was introduced to the late James Rouse, the visionary developer who founded the Enterprise Foundation in 1982. "Jim Rouse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Hardymon Receives VC Award
Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
investment, most such arguments are founded on hubris rather than on solid advantages or capabilities. Indeed, Norway, the country with the most experience in investing national wealth, has developed an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
moved to Washington to join the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, part of a multi-billion-dollar Obama administration initiative to speed the development of a nationwide,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
time now because there are many modalities that are emerging. The science and technology is accelerating for facial, iris, and there are many other physical characteristics that are still in the research and development arena, such as... View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
John Rice (MBA 1992) founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization, to equip underrepresented minorities with the skills, coaching, and relationships they need to become high-impact leaders in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details