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01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

York City, also served as correspondent for Section I for two years. Of her volunteer experience, she says, "It's a wonderful opportunity to be in touch with a broad cross section View Details

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

16 Sep 2016
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capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key... View Details

16 Mar 2017
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Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer

Sir Harpal Kumar (MBA 1991) is CEO of Cancer Research UK, which is the world’s second largest cancer research organization. In this video, he talks about the challenges facing cancer researchers and doctors around world and offers an... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

Summer offers the benefit of long, warm days—and for students, the very real opportunity to consider a potential sector or role for post-HBS plans, sometimes with the support View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

their careers. The organization offers academic support, mentoring, and opportunities for networking. As part of the networking process, Ma met Bromberg, a fellow volunteer who shared her enthusiasm for the... View Details

04 Apr 2014
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Increasing Access to Education

career opportunities and experiences I have had,” says Mount, president of San Francisco–based Jawbone, a leading innovator in wearable technology and smart audio devices. “It gave me the View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

equity is a very good business to be in. I think finance generally provides an enormous number of opportunities for young people. It’s a business that highly rewards and appreciates very smart, very... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

“I find crisis can create excellent opportunities for cleansing, de-cluttering, and finding new avenues,” writes Vicente Barreto, a native of Portugal who lives in London. Recent guests have included Emily... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

An emerging optical disc technology called digital versatile disc (DVD), which will contain enough storage space to hold huge volumes of multimedia and interactive programming, is also in the works. The ability to deliver audio digitally... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

in the early 1760s who owned an estimated 100 slaves—received death threats and was spit on in public. He did not win reelection to the council and found himself shut out of work opportunities in the area.... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

On October 1, 1976, Jon Pellegrin (6th OPM), the then 32-year-old vice president of Wisconsin's Johnson Hill Press, walked solemnly into his father George's office. It was time. Slumping into the chair opposite his father's desk, he took... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

25 Apr 2018
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

and the resultant lack of minority role models, is what prompted Rice to develop MLT while still a student at HBS. He realized just how close he had come to missing the opportunity for a career in business,... View Details

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part View Details

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, several goals in addition to providing students with a common "foundation" for entering the MBA Program were sought and achieved by the module's planners. "We tried to build a sense of community among the... View Details

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

services and quality of life. “The HBSCP projects gave me an exciting opportunity to help San Francisco break through a number of short-term challenges to be the world-class... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2015
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Launch Codes

Photo courtesy of Jodi Gernon Before joining HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship as its new director in July, Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991) weighed two other potential career options—joining a startup or launching one View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi

the insurgency in the hands of two or three groups. There would be some attempt to increase the hold of the Sunnis on neighborhoods in Baghdad. But I don’t think much would change. Baghdad is now a 90... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change

environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships

father had to take on loans, and it was his dream to have his own children attend college without the burden of debt or having to work during school,” said Jeannie, noting that her father became an investment banker partly in order to... View Details

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