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- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that education alone can’t transform...
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Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
When it comes to starting new ventures, some people think big picture and others dive into the details. When Robb Turner (MBA 1990) talks about the start-up of his flourishing maple syrup company, it’s obvious he’s pretty good at both. A West Point graduate with a...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Mahadeva Photo courtesy Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) founder, chairman, and CEO Wijayaraj A. (“Kumar”) Mahadeva explains how his company can help businesses still reeling from “post-bubble hangovers.” “We keep the mission pretty simple,”...
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- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) (photos by Neal Hamberg) Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) had a passion for basketball that dated back to middle school, a stellar record as a high school player, and an extraordinary college career as co-captain of a record-setting...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple of summers ago, the money you helped raise to support ALS research may be at work today in a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headed by Robert Blum (MBA 1991). Blum is...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
Mariner Photo courtesy Jonathan Mariner “There aren’t many activities that bring a community together so quickly — without respect to age, race, and gender lines — as a winning ball club,” observes Jonathan D. Mariner, the veteran sports executive who has served as...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop competitive private sectors....
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Deborah Blagg
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Photos by Richard Bolger Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) crossed the world many times in three decades as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, an international distributor of compounds for industrial, health, and food industries....
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- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012). “One of the best parts of my...
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Deborah Blagg
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
down the road and looking to change direction, don’t hesitate to jump in. I’m a huge fan of starting your own company, because I think it lets you get closer to life. Your destiny is in your own hands. If it’s Sunday night and you’re not excited about going to work on...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
lives are rich, varied, and have many different passages. — Deborah Blagg For more about A New Path, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/path/. For information about career resources and tools, visit...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
DeLong: His new book offers practical advice on how to identify and surmount obstacles that hamper career growth. Related Links Watch DeLong discuss selecting the right people Congratulations to Yoni (MBA '11) and Newton (OPM 39), who won copies of DeLong's book in our...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken stock. Clad in a starched white...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me that running a flea market is...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
It's impossible to talk for long with Shari Hubert without hearing her mention the importance of "giving back." In fact, when she is asked to reflect on her most significant accomplishments to date, she doesn't at first mention that she won a city-wide college...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
public-offering practices, every business cycle produces reasons for the two of them to come together to figure out how to improve the system. The process feels a little tense at times — and we are going through one of those periods today — but the outcome is almost...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
how little definitive research there has been on a topic that has such widespread economic impact. I hope the book will begin to fill that gap. — Deborah Blagg
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
current board members (nearly 10 percent of the directors of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are 70 or older), Stautberg and Chin believe there will be many opportunities for Harvard MBAs to make a difference through board service in the next few years. “If you haven’t...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
In 2011, Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) returned to his high school alma mater in Wilmington, Delaware, to serve as the first non-clergy president in the Catholic school’s century-long history. “Salesianum School’s transition to lay leadership was a big step, and it...
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