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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
Jeffrey Williams (MBA ’82) has been named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai. Opened in March 2010, the center, a joint venture of HBS and the Harvard China Fund, supports a wide range of activities, including HBS Executive Education... View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
“playbook” highlighting ways in which business partnerships can help educators lay the policy foundations for innovation, expand programs that boost student outcomes, and reinvigorate the entire education ecosystem to strengthen public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
platform, signing partnerships with software houses (70 and counting), and creating a digital fingerprint for each engineer—incorporating a mix of professional competencies and a person’s psychometric profile. Meanwhile the founders are... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
solution was the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a nonprofit spun out of City Hall that is focused on turning around 22 of the district's lowest-performing schools. Serving close to 16,000 students, the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
produce enough healthy foods, they hope to combat malnutrition, provide jobs, and reduce the need for costly imports. “We’re excited to source local products, and it also makes business sense, because once you have the partnership in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A World of Reading
partnership with USAID and private funders, and is now in Kenya, Tanzania, and six other sub-Saharan African countries, where it makes thousands of books available via download to Africa’s cell-phone network. “All of us want to be... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
internal reorganization and strategic partnerships have led to greater efficiencies and ongoing growth. In her five-year tenure, Carroll has diversified the mix of commodities the company holds through View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Vicki Sato, Professor of Management Practice at HBS, discussed their partnership furthering the commercialization of science. Befitting the symposium’s setting in Aldrich Hall, the daylong event... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
in the knowledge-based biotechnology industry to forge balanced partnership deals with the financially much stronger pharmaceutical industry." A panel led by HBS associate professor Jonathan West discussed the issues raised by Klietmann,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
York as those most in need of skilled midlevel workers and focused on community colleges as a solution. In partnership with the LaGuardia Community College in Queens, the group created a program to connect interns with tech firms—to date,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
only pays for results, and investors benefit only if society benefits. Successful SIB partnerships yield multiple winners: government gains accountability for taxpayer funds; high-performing nonprofits reap growth capital; investors... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two different dates to accommodate a combined global audience of close... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
When Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) became the executive director of the Safe Passage Project in 2016, his mandate was to expand the organization. Today, there are 40 staffers working in partnership with 450 pro-bono attorneys to represent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
You’re writing fresh material for a paperback edition of The Partnership that’s coming out in the fall. What’s new that you’re focusing on? First and most important, the larger business environment in 2008–2009 has been completely... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Embracing Digital Transformation
digital age, enable more meaningful connections with and among alumni, and create data-driven partnerships that benefit business and society. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund from alumni advance the mission of the School by providing vital... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
building partnerships with Boston public schools to bring students in grades five through eight out to the island for hands-on science education,” Pearson notes. The goal is a sequential, four-year curriculum that is intended to develop... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
lands with important conservation attributes, usually in partnership with regional and national land trusts and conservation organizations. Through the conservation transactions we structure, the public gets the assurance that the... View Details