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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Just in case “global” isn’t an adjective you readily ascribe to HBS, consider this. Nearly 30 percent of the School’s more than 78,000 alumni live abroad, scattered across 167 countries. That means there’s almost no nation you can visit that isn’t home to at least one... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
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Mission Critical
all the things that I probably should not have been doing and learned the opportunities that I had to redefine my leadership. “In our industry, just like any other industry, you really have to inspire and engage your teammates in order to be successful. We have the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Nov 2014
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Turning Missions into Movements
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
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A Global Mission
the Soviet Union. “I negotiated that when there were still tanks around the Lithuanian parliament,” he recalls. “The university’s mission is to promote democracy and civil society in a challenging part of the world,” he says. “LCC is a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
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A Global Mission
For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm from 1984 to 2015 and continues to sit on its board. For the last half century, DeFehr has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Advancing the Mission
Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them. Together, the siblings cofounded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
global health bottlenecks through CHAI (now known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative since its mission has expanded to include pandemics like tuberculosis and malaria). As director of operations research working out of CHAI’s Boston... View Details
- 19 Jun 2009
- News
Mongolia's competitiveness scoping mission
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Man on a Mission
Girand Courtesy Jim Girand Jim Girand (MBA ’61), who’s been a high-tech entrepreneur since the 1960s, is also a veteran duathlete and former age-group national champion who hasn’t let a bout with prostate cancer slow him down. Indeed, after successful surgery in 2006,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
Chris Howard (MBA ’03), once securely on the fast track at GE, today is associate vice president at the University of Oklahoma, thanks to the persuasive powers of OU president David Boren. According to the Oklahoman (September 5, 2006), Boren was so impressed with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was founded at HBS and brought to... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 17 Oct 2011
- News
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
Growing a Manufacturing Company with a Social Mission
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
“If I’m doing anything to change the world,” says retired NASA administrator Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979), “it is using any power and influence I have to lift up other people.” He has done that by helping others to further their potential through education. For 30... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
great way to advancing what we’re doing in human space flight and I get to work with the astronauts every day. And that is really exciting, and the teams of people that are involved make it enjoyable. That’s what it’s all about. It’s all about the people and it’s all... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
"My wife says I flunked retirement," says Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979) with a laugh. Maybe so, but he clearly has never flunked anything else. The holder of 10 university degrees, including six honorary doctorates, the recipient of government service awards from two US... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses left for the suburbs, property... View Details
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