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01 Mar 2014
News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Professors Leonard and Rangan One of the benefits of starting a new initiative within an academic institution is the chance to set transformational ideas into motion. In 1993, when then-Dean John McArthur and John Whitehead (MBA 1947) collaborated to envision and... View Details

Keywords: SEI

Portrait Project

Hugh Yoon

change. I will be touching the lives of my surroundings individually, increasing the awareness that everyone deserves the same "privilege" which many of us take for granted. Ultimately I will expand my efforts to the organizational level by building a View Details

06 Mar 2023
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Dean Announces 2023 Alumni Achievement Award Honorees

(GMP 18, 2015) CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United Raymond J. McGuire (JD/MBA 1984) Former Vice Chairman, Citigroup Antonis C.... View Details

29 Feb 2016
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In the ‘Spotlight’

Frankly, it was devastating. At the end of the day, I’ve reconciled. I’m pretty proud of the work, and that work was absolutely foundational for [Spotlight].” Read more about Singer in Harvard Law Today, and watch a video interview he did... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

production. “Their work is quite compelling for us,” says Kendall. “They’ve created a bold and provocative vision—‘50 by 60’—that says that we in New England can produce 50 percent of our food locally by 2060.” Since 2011, the Kendall View Details

01 Jan 2009
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Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985

legal expertise of her identical twin sister, Karen, could be used to make a difference. Together they founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998 with the goal of speeding the development of new treatments and, one day,... View Details

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

valuable. Austin: In providing a foundation for all first-year MPPs, the course ensured that conversations about race and racism could continue throughout the semester on common ground. I found myself referencing readings, movies, and... View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Fereshteh…

foundation of operations, strategy and leadership which I was able to put into practice right away. Working at the store-level has been an amazing experience that has given me valuable insight into the core of our business. Every day... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

History's Guiding Light

by Professor Geoffrey Jones. This seminar provided me with a foundation on the role of business in advanced and emerging countries’ economic trajectories, from Medici Italy to China and India in today’s global context, as well as direct... View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope

Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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The Power of Philanthropy

When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Career Coach

Whit Collier

work in the context of life, and has participated as a volunteer with Leslie Perlow’s EC course “Crafting Your Life”. While grounded in foundational virtues of self-reliance and hard work, Whit also believes in the transformative power of... View Details

Herman Brown

Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines, real estate concerns, office buildings, and shipbuilding... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

emerging businesses as well as the Bharti Foundation. A brainchild of Sunil Mittal, the foundation works to improve rural education and has launched 254 schools throughout the country, serving 70,000 underprivileged children, who... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Introduction - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice Building the Foundation Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937 - 1970 088, 113, 173, 120,... View Details

Profile

Bryan Guerra

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school at HBS, the majority of my educational experience had taken place largely within a lecture-based setting. While this approach had provided a solid foundation of... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Technology; Consumer Products

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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) Course Number 1457 Professor Robin Greenwood Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Video: Market Perspectives Course Overview... View Details

22 Jun 2023
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Book Smart

David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was particularly keen on using it.... View Details

19 Feb 2024
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