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24 Apr 2014
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Reawakening rural America

7,000 jobs since its launch in 1986. “My primary business is recruiting manufacturing firms into rural communities and helping them create jobs,” Schultz says. After a three-year research project about rural economics that led to the book... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Leading in the face of complex challenges

ultimately an investment in a better world,” says Hess, “one led by alumni who build more effective, sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world.” Hess understands the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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An investment of time to advance education

immigrants, and education is an oft-stated but never over-stated core belief,” said Breyer, a Baker Scholar while at HBS. “I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible, and understanding how technology can be a part of the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Driving economic growth and job creation

Karen Gordon Mills (AB 1975, MBA 1977) served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as administrator of the US Small Business Administration, which is focused on economic growth and support for small businesses. In the midst of the 2009 financial crisis, Mills View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Building a better India through business and philanthropy

Known for understanding opportunities ahead of the curve, Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992) led his family’s business away from textiles to pharmaceuticals in the 1980s. “Our guiding principle has been to build businesses that deliver... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

Symbolics, the supermom helped lift the firm's revenues from $1 million to $120 million. From there, Lang led a string of turnarounds and product launches with software companies. In 1993 she signed on with Lotus Development Corporation.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020

Middle East & North Africa Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye A desire to “democratize art in the Middle East” led Yazan Halwani (MBA 2020) to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab... View Details

17 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Tech for the People

Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative drew on a concept Airbnb devised to use its platform to... View Details

09 Nov 2021
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Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

As part of a recent cover story in WIRED about Netflix’s racial equity pledge, the magazine spoke to the company’s human resources director, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), who led the project. The article notes that Mitchell helped craft the... View Details

Dennis Sheedy

After making a great deal of money in cattle raising, Sheedy entered the banking business as a vice president of Colorado National City Bank in 1886, a position that later gave him his connection to Globe Smelting. After helping the company reorganize its finances and... View Details

Keywords: Metals

01 Dec 2011
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Attn: Alumni Entrepreneurs

In February, for the third annual Alumni New Venture Contest, HBS clubs worldwide will judge business plans from teams led by HBS alumni. Regional winners will participate in educational, mentoring, networking, and media sessions at the... View Details

Keywords: contests

01 Jun 2010
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Lerner Honored for Research

Said Lerner: “Research in entrepreneurship has made great strides, and I am fortunate to be part of the HBS Entrepreneurial Management Unit, whose more than thirty faculty members have led the School to a preeminent position in this... View Details

Keywords: awards; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2021
News

Sister Soldier

second difference is the story is existential. Their homes were about to be overrun by extremists who truly saw women as things to be bought and sold. These women said, “I will die before these people take over our neighborhood.” They led... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

and the reason for many a loosened tie and rolled-up shirtsleeve. The 2005 GLF was the culmination of nearly three years of planning, led by HBS professor Nancy Koehn as faculty chair. “We chose London because for so long it has been at... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Horace C. Wright

Wright spent 44 years with the company and led it through its transition from the small Chicago Flexible Shaft Company to its present incarnation as Sunbeam Corporation. Under his leadership, Sunbeam dramatically expanded its home... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Charles M. Pigott

Pigott was instrumental in leading the growth of his family’s business, Pacific Car & Foundry. Sales of heavy trucks under the Peterbilt and Kenworth names increased from $320 million to $4.3 billion. Part of that growth was generated through a series of... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Ralph Budd

In 1919, when Budd took over the helm at Great Northern, he was the youngest railway president in the country. Budd pioneered new projects including the 1926-1928 Cascade Mountains tunnel project, which cost $25 million and eliminated the need for six shorter tunnels.... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

05 Apr 2020
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Launching in a World in Limbo

launch, the New York Times chronicled Whitman and Katzenberg’s challenging third act in a story called, “Two Veteran C.E.O.s Risk $1.8 Billion on a Streaming App. In a Pandemic.” Both led some of the biggest companies in the U.S. before... View Details

23 Jan 2017
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The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

Although he had led major divisions of large companies, this was the first time Burwick, now 55, would be CEO. Started by Alfred Peet in 1966 in Berkeley, Peet’s has been a popular Bay Area company with a strong brand, said director of... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS

financial services organization to one of the country's most successful investment banking firms. Chalsty plans to be in attendance at the March Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town. He will serve on a panel led by HBS professor André... View Details

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