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- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO
and in GM’s investment in Lyft. Furthermore, according to Fortune, when Suryadevara joins the c-suite in September, she will be part of a growing class of female chief financial executives. With 64 CFOs in the Fortune 500, women account... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Named Top School for Producing Entrepreneurs
Sarah Leary (MBA 1998) Sarah Leary (MBA 1998) Poets & Quants recently reported on PitchBook’s annual ranking of MBA programs that have “produced the most entrepreneurs, the most companies, the most female founders, and more—including, of... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
Seeing obstacles women face, particularly in Middle Eastern countries, is what drove Isik Kececi Asur and her husband, Mustafa, to endow an MBA fellowship designated for female entrepreneurs from Turkey and Lebanon. “Supporting women to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
45 startups active in this space. The Financial Times points out that femtech startups often have female founders, another significant shift. And it’s not only women in the developed world who benefit; USAID promotes mHealth projects as a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
alumnae: over 90 percent of female astronauts were Girl Scouts; every woman secretary of state; and 75 percent of congresswomen. How do we tell that story?” Pitter-Armand is bringing the lessons she learned at HBS and in the for-profit... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
showers for each other: Ten percent of the females are pregnant, and one of my students is expecting her second child. Other students simply cannot function in a classroom environment. The concept of No Child Left Behind is great, but one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
this June. His caption to this Instagram photo? “Big business minus the business suit.” June’s PEEK Weekend—a new HBS recruiting effort—introduced 125 female college students and recent graduates to business and HBS, including case... View Details
Keywords: Dwyane Wade
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
Capital. The goal is to source, process, and distribute fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains within West Africa, thereby improving nutrition levels, aiding farmers, and creating jobs. Social entrepreneurship comes easily to Nwuneli, founder of LEAP Africa, a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
I admire other female colleagues like Sandy Moose of BCG and June Rokoff of Lotus. Best business advice My good friend and sectionmate Brigid Sullivan told me I should be involved with something that taps into my passion. Where the new... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
“Number, please” was the oft-repeated request made by the more than 100,000 mostly female switchboard operators in the early 20th century. Anyone who had a telephone grew to know the familiar voices that connected them to the outside... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
programming. “We now know that live, in-ring content is the driver of viewership; and we’ve learned that documentaries are a really important driver—that kind of behind-the-scenes view of our talent,” says Wilson. They’ve also seen spikes in viewership around their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
female corporate finance associate at Kidder, she became an equity analyst two years later, covering the computer industry. Joining Bear Stearns in 1979 as a risk arbitrage analyst, she rose to number two in the worldwide risk arbitrage... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
Protagonists Melissa Wong Bethell (MBA 1999) remembers reading only a handful of cases featuring female protagonists when she was a student at HBS. While those numbers have increased dramatically in recent years, she hopes more cases with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
anniversary. In addition to having to learn how to ride a camel, his experience included tagging along for rest and recuperation in Beirut with O'Toole and Omar Sharif as—with the help of countless female admirers—they relaxed from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Hart also serves as faculty director of the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 initiative at HBS that was created to encourage the inclusion of more female protagonists in business cases. She is faculty coordinator of the Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Laura A. Liswood (MBA '76) is cofounder and secretary-general of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), an independent, international organization based at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Made up of many of the world's current and former View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
of my living room in Carlsbad, California. It is she—the beautiful female figure who ignited my dream so many years ago. I continue to work virtually with organizations that nurture and promote the new arts of Cambodia and the Southeast... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson (MBA ’82) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Helgesen and Johnson demonstrate that what women perceive in organizations (like interpersonal factors) often goes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
growth of female athletes in amateur sports, we found that sexual abuse of these young, female athletes by male coaches was quite widespread. It was an incredible series that changed the reporting laws in... View Details