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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
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Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) As president and CEO at The Partnership from 1991 to 2005, Benaree Wiley (MBA 1972) headed a nonprofit focused on supporting and strengthening Boston-area companies in their efforts to attract, develop, and retain View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
University Press) This book provides a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Largely unnoticed outside the expert community, recently reinsurance has become more known as public and View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
integrity and social sensitivity are implicit in the idea of professionalism. . . . Nor has the School ever doubted that the concept of professionalism includes the components of social responsibility and accountability." In the 1980s and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
(with Richard F. Vancil and Paul W. Marshall). He also contributed the chapter"Capital Budgeting and Long-Range Planning" to the book Progress in Operations Research. Beyond HBS, Christenson has been an active member of professional... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
business and financial-market orientation. Louis Gerstner Jr. (MBA 1965), former CEO and chair of IBM, has written that you always get more of whatever you measure. Certainly, the constant measurement of professional money managers... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
were the reinforcements needed to staff the new organization and make it fully functional and credible as the collective voice of black students at HBS. We were the first student group at HBS formed on some basis other than professional... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
participation and leadership, nurturing, and tending." Kay Wallace points to "night-and-day" differences that coexist at ACOG. "At one level," she says, "you have proven management types with fifteen years of professional experience. On... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
hand and exposing areas that will never be competitive on the other. The pool of capital may be more limited. But I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. The VC industry went through a phase where it expanded enormously in capital and attracted View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
leadership, finance, and operations skills that senior health-care professionals need to transform care delivery in their organizations. Presented in three one-week modules offered over a nine-month period, the program is structured... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
city from scratch. The collaboration involved software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, builders, and technology corporations. Examining the work, norms, and values in each of these View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
knew how important he was — and to many it seemed a sure waste of money because it could not possibly be effective. Who, after all, could compete with Sidney Weinberg or with any of the other leading bankers at Wall Street’s leading firms, who as View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
1985. "I was known as 'the Prussian General' by my HBS friends because I was a big, powerful, fearless guy," he recalls. "I always commanded from the head of the table, shouting, 'This is not a democracy!' Then a series of personal tragedies and View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
while you’re on Zoom with your professors. That sounds very compelling to me. JJHK: I see a blended approach as well. Online learning will be embraced for all sorts of reasons, especially in the professional development world, but I think... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
team shares the feedback they received from about a dozen people. “People’s faces lit up,” Behrens says. From the research, Foalea determines her key demographic: women, ages 24–35, who are happy with their style but would like assistance. “A young View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward. Abrams and Hodgson also elevate and share the experiences of other successful founders including, Jules Pieri of The Grommet, Alisa Clark of Glory Professional Services, and Sheila Jordan of Knowledge Architects. Aramco Brat: How... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
work over time, and develop an exit strategy. - Diana Barrett Diana B. Barrett, a senior lecturer at HBS, took over Kanter's Business Leadership in the Social Sector (BLSS) seminar last year. A member of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise core group, she has... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
contest. "We hope that what they've learned from the seminar series and the contest will help them be more successful." The plans will be judged by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and business professionals on the basis of their... View Details