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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
"and I had always intended to go into public service. In fact, I enrolled at HBS to learn leadership skills to that end." Although his gubernatorial campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, Checchi was able to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
involved in education in the 1970s when his two daughters were enrolled in the Charlotte, North Carolina, public schools. As president of UNC, he increased enrollment and the university’s operating budget,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
other initiatives ensure that the School remains the standard for excellence in management education worldwide. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of thousands of donors and the work of a dedicated corps of alumni volunteers, we are making remarkable progress... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
accelerate the advancement of women leaders in support of the School's mission. We have a capital campaign upcoming, and one of its principal goals is to foster new types of engagement between our alumni and the School. These examples... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
fortunate despite my injury," he reports of his experiences in Singapore, Egypt, Taiwan, France, Japan, and Italy. "I also found new meaning in my commitment to public service." At the end of his travels, Jefferson enrolled at Harvard's... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
of North Carolina (based at its Chapel Hill campus) from 1986 to 1997, he increased enrollment and faculty funding while prioritizing educational quality and affordability. His devotion, generosity, and service to Harvard University and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
arrangement. In its second year, the Joy School enrolled 18 kids, then 30, and then 45. Today, the school teaches about 150 children—kindergarten through eighth grade—from approximately 40 communities in the Houston area. The students... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
social-pressure campaigns and legal challenges to the team’s trademark had not been enough to bring about a change. Dan Snyder, the team’s owner of 20 years, dug in. “We will never change the name,” he told the USA Today in 2013. But... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
With Honor candidates will be expected to return contributions that might taint their integrity, to disavow campaign ads that lie about or baselessly attack the character of their opponents, and to work across party lines—including... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing a new economic formula based on stimulating consumer consumption. More recently, there was an anticorruption campaign that created... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist, she rose through NGO management positions before View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
more than sixfold to 65. The School now offers seven elective social enterprise courses and lists thirteen more as social enterprise–related. Since 2000, enrollment in these electives has more than doubled to some 400 students. Over the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott Foundation’s current View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
to be the next caretaker. He enrolled at Harvard Business School in 1933 at the depths of the Great Depression, but left in January 1935 to return to the family business in the chaotic aftermath of the biggest textile strike the country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
back to the mainland. “Our classroom is a 204-acre island with two salt marshes, a fresh water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests.” Since 2005, Pearson has spearheaded an $8.3 million capital campaign to fund infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
of experience. “Although I was often part of privileged communities, from very early on, I frequently identified with those who were excluded.” Enrolling at Princeton, Massie became an activist, particularly regarding South Africa and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
strengthening diversity at Salesianum, where tuition is close to $16,000 annually, were top priorities. “From its earliest days, the school’s leaders reached out to educate children of immigrants who couldn’t afford tuition,” he notes. “With a lot of kids in our area... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
a successful campaign to get his company to revoke its membership. "I am, after all, my mother's son," he notes with a laugh. At HBS, Rogers found the case method particularly suited to his strengths. "I love debate and analysis," he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
representatives in support of the successful campaign for marriage equality in New York State. Our social media campaigns have reached 14 million people, and we've won awards for the innovative advocacy... View Details