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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
neither of them understood what I needed to do to prepare for a career in investment banking, tech, consulting, etc.,” Rice observes. “So, despite having a good academic record and compelling leadership story outside the classroom, I didn’t know about the ‘hiring bar’... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
of Education Arne Duncan, who first attended PELP in 2003 when he was CEO of Chicago's public schools. The popular program engages eight-person district teams in an intensive learning experience that includes analyses of education- and business-based cases, group study... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
of scholarship and running a business, he says, the combination of peer and faculty mentoring, classroom exercises, and access to guest experts in the elective Field X was invaluable. “Having a class where I could focus on building... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising volunteer role—Investors Society class agents—that focuses on... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
suspect it was transporting contraband. He grabbed a CSECO Fiberscope—a fiber-optic inspection device that resembles a plumber's snake—and fed it into the gas tank. He peered into the scope's eyepiece. "Generally, if you interdict a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Photography by Gary Laufman “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Umaimah Mendhro (MBA 2009) was visiting her native Pakistan, working for a microfinance education nonprofit, when she was tasked with photographing students in a school. View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
doctors across night and weekend shifts, and employ technology to support the patient experience—has proven to be a valuable alternative to expensive hospital care. Doctors Umeda and Nomaguchi say more and more of their generational peers... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
talk to their peers about recent developments in this burgeoning industry. As copresident of this year's Communications, Media, & Computing Ventures Club, he helped stage Cyberposium '96, a gathering of high-tech gurus and corporate... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the highest odds of making good... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
learn from real-life scenarios as well as from their peers and mentors. Prashant Pundrik (PLDA 9, 2014) rear center, and Katherine Toh (AMP 24, 2023) rear, right, meet with mentees in Singapore. Jeremy Tan (MBA 2008), who currently runs... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
management” system to other chains. About one-third of Clove’s procedures are audited by colleagues who examine anonymized X-rays as a form of what Singh calls peer review, a process that he says can be useful anywhere. “It becomes a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
meeting—a GPP program that trains students to educate their peers about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. (In 2014, the Georgia Meth Project broadened its focus to become the Georgia Prevention Project.) Some of the students wear... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
likely than their non-veteran peers to commit the US military to solving problems overseas. “They know what’s at stake,” he says. Barcott says he and other veterans launched With Honor after months of preparation. “I served with a number... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
O’Neal returned to Doraville, working as a supervisor at the GM facility. When he was accepted at HBS, GM gave him a no-strings-attached scholarship. “I was naive, but I was also undaunted,” says O’Neal of his arrival at Soldiers Field — his first trip to Boston. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
Constance “CJ” Jones (MBA 2008) had a tough time as a student at her middle school in Durham, North Carolina. Often the only person of color in the academically advanced classes, she felt rejected by both her white and her black peers for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
succeed. They investigate the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies, although they often had to struggle against unresponsive organizations and peers and even their own personal fears. The authors show how... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Pride Alumni Association is expanding its slate of LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums after the successful launch of two initial forums in 2021 sparked broader interest among its members. Akin to having a personal board of directors, HBS Alumni Forums... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
training methodology is such that it gives the trainees confidence, since they learn, among other things, to stand up in front of peers and seniors and speak, something they have never done,” he notes. One success story is that of Jyotika... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
to help make these graduates more visible, with the hope that once our classmates in high places realize they have gay and lesbian peers and friends, they'll be more inclined to support the diversity of their own employees," Baron... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
analyze, deal with changing assumptions, and defend my views in front of my peers in a graded environment. That’s how students see the case method. Faculty see the case as a source of education, innovation, and change. It’s the heart of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley