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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
“I’d like to see a number of our major corporations pick one African school of business, fully endow it, and help make it really good,” America says. “Upgrading management quality in the Third World will increase efficiency, creativity,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
business scholar," said Maurice Cox, PepsiCo's vice president of corporate development and diversity. "Helping to endow the chair at HBS, as well as establishing the fellowship program in his name, is a small way for PepsiCo to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship While many classmates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
(MBA ’84), president and CEO of AEW Capital Management, a Boston investment advisory firm with $30 billion under management. “Certainly my clients — pension funds and endowments — aren’t that optimistic about the stock and bond markets,... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
can not always be positive. No rose gardens. So this experience of mine helped me very much. JH: Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) is treasurer and COO at the Ford Foundation, enabling the organization's grantmaking program as it leverages a $16 billion View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
relationship with them and giving them a lot of information. They want to know what the team is, what the investment team is. We actually met with the Harvard Endowment in the early days and we got a lot of support, and so they think they... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
endowment and foundation boards. The Network Effect Ma has found the HBS alumni network to be particularly valuable both throughout her career and in her personal life. “The alumni community is a group of people with shared values. We... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
economist Burt Malkiel (MBA 1955), former chair of the Yale endowment Charley Ellis (MBA 1963), and former head of IBM’s investment funds Jay Vivian (MBA 1978) to serve on the Rebalance Investment Committee. The company has also invested... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
mission and helping underprivileged people," Nundy explains. "Once you get a taste of that, it's hard to feel fulfilled doing anything else. I see myself working in the nonprofit sector for the long term." (For graduates who want to make a full-time commitment to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
work, asking, “How do I find my purpose?” That’s the wrong question. You don’t find your purpose—you build it. The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose is packed with stories, tips, and activities to teach you how to cultivate more meaning in your life and work and View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
and increased his own already substantial support. In addition to the Opera, through a family foundation, Johnson and his wife, Cathie, support a variety of educational and cultural institutions. An HBS professorship they funded is named after Cathie’s father, and they... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Svitlana Repina (HBS, MBA 2023), panel moderator. MARCH 8 Alumni Perspective: Mark Iwashko (MBA 1991) In a recent message to his MBA 1991 sectionmates, longtime Kyiv resident Mark... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
last fall the Krafts launched a "Kick Cancer" awareness campaign. They endowed a chaired professorship in Jewish studies at Boston College and a chaired professorship in Christian studies at Brandeis. All told, the Krafts have donated... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high... View Details
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- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
names of movies I had seen. An older boy knew that one of them was the name of a ringworm ointment, so I was caught in my lie, and they all laughed at me. That revelation of my ignorance was the most humiliating moment of my childhood." Still, Parija says, life in his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
excellent practice. Consumers saw a single campaign, not two related campaigns." In Chicago, when John McCarter needed help financing an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he found a surprising mix of funders. He received support from the Lilly View Details