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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Committee for two, and humbly as its President for the last year. To be honest, I didn't even know the Board existed before receiving the invitation to join, but I viewed it as a way to engage more consistently and formally with the School, with an added benefit of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting, he shows how to reverse this situation, including... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
medicine—and in Jarzabek’s passion for it, but, he recalls, “there were a couple of parts missing for me.” Jarzabek was mission-driven, had the analytical and strategy skills a startup needs, but he didn’t have the medical experience and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Aug 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
after eating prepared food cooked in a cross-contaminated pan. The couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT) to advance scientific and medical research in order to find treatments and cures. Among EAT’s founding principles is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
regulatory issues, as well as intense competition from Europe’s Airbus. “The task here is growth,” said McNerney of his new assignment at Chicago-based Boeing. “That’s the thing we’ve got to get right over the next couple of years”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
concept—Santa Monica’s Chinois on Main, where he popularized Asian fusion—and also went international with Spago Tokyo. Within a couple years, all of America knew of Puck. A few engaging cooking demos on Good Morning America snowballed... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
workforce. While MPower Partners continues to offer investment from its first fund, Seki has been mulling a new fund focused solely on female-run enterprises. “I would like to launch the second fund in a couple of years, then possibly a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, by a theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli. The first couple of chapters gave me a whole new way to think about my community and charitable involvement.” View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
raced up a steep hill to Broadway, found a cab, and for the first time in his life he gave a driver a couple of extra bills with instructions to get him on the next shuttle at LaGuardia. He said his son had just won a Nobel Prize, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
could transform pension investing—or even society at large. Frank Chapman signed on, as did his wife, who had a half-dozen different accounts of her own. Now the couple can set up contributions, monitor their investments, and use drawdown... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Patriots Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty. What started with the couple grew to five staffers working out of the couple’s home. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
is where we plan to make the first couple of units. Then we’re going to find a manufacturing facility so that we can build and deploy these, en masse, in Wyoming. Project Bison will be deployed over four major phases. In phase one—2023 to... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and enabled her to serve as a role model for those who are pursuing their dreams. The parents of three children, each a budding entrepreneur, she and Barry have very naturally merged their home and work lives. Every night after dinner with... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Valley to Swaziland: How One Couple Found Purpose and Adventure in an Encore Career Quoted (iStock) “We’ve now surveyed thousands of executives at hundreds of companies, and they’re always shocked to see how poorly their strategy is... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Helping Women Executives Return to Work
ladder by moving from employer to employer every couple years,” she says. “They’re not going to take the information and go off and start their own business. They’re committed to the organization they’re working for and they are really... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
funding last March and is ready to scale. “We’ve gone from having a couple of robots in the field to showcase their autonomy to having a fleet of them running miles every day,” Andersen says. And it’s just the beginning of Burro’s... View Details