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- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
that I could invest the rest of my career in helping people.” To that end, Downing started taking science classes three years ago. Then, while searching for a medical school that would accept a mid-career student, he stumbled upon a new joint program, offered by... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
traditional forms of career advancement. After eight years with the company, he decided to go to HBS. “The idea came from my time as an intern at Digital Equipment Corp. in the United States while I was a university student,” he said. He... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
Hail Mary play, the administration dramatically proposed a $700 billion financial rescue plan to restore confidence in the markets. Against that backdrop of heightened national anxiety, HBS and Harvard University hastily organized three... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
Khare. Indeed, he came to business only after he added to his undergraduate engineering major at the University of Pennsylvania by enrolling in the Wharton School's five-year, dual-degree program in management and technology. "I saw... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
$9 million operation. The company, renamed Harvard Bioscience, Inc. — it has a licensing agreement with Harvard University — went public in 2000 and by 2010 had become a $108 million firm. Asked how he came to decide to work in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
the confidence to move forward in my studies and in my career. After graduating with my MBA, I earned a JD from Georgetown in 1980, followed by two PhDs from UCLA in 1996 and 2001. I served as dean at the University of Hawaii Law School... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
2000) in the first days of 2020 to show how Moderna’s considerable investments in AI and other digital tools allowed them to design and deliver a COVID-19 vaccine in just 41 days. Reimagining Capitalism Over the last 15 years, Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
Harger started last year, and the club's numbers promptly increased 10 percent. The copresidents are currently establishing a Career Program and have begun connecting with other area business school alumni groups (such as those from Kellogg, Wharton, and the View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
BankBoston in January, is impressed not only by the size of the deal but perhaps even more by what it represents: the crossing of industry lines. "With this merger, universal banking - long the style of major banks in many other countries... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
agenda of how we carry out our research. The papers presented will be our vehicle for discussing academic decisions, just as case studies are a vehicle for advancing our understanding of business decisions." The conference allowed scholars from eighteen View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
educational programs and from around the world. In any given year, about 5 percent of HBS MBA students are military—active duty, reservist, or veteran. The relationship between the military and Harvard University is often viewed by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
long road trips during the season, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, summa cum laude, from Hofstra University in 1998. “It took fourteen years,” he says with a smile, “but I stuck with it.” During the early 1990s,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
Born in East Lansing, Michigan, Charles Stoddard grew up with banking in his blood. As a teenager, he worked as a teller in the bank his father founded. After earning degrees from Michigan State University and HBS, he held banking and... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
reforms. Education and health care are the country’s two most formidable challenges, Chidambaram observed. Stating that India must become “a knowledge society,” he noted that while the country is known for the talent its elite View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
Internet. "My next big project," explains Høegh, "will be a multimedia collaborative outdoor spectacle that will tour the globe, with performances involving local people as well as a worldwide online audience. It will be an attempt to communicate in a View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
the University of Rochester Medical School. Her "baby" is now eleven years old. "I want to spend more time with him as he enters his teenage years," she says. At ease in a new office personalized with artwork from her beloved Tanzania,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce... View Details