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- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
Kentucky. She expects to establish a private practice and perhaps a retail business in bridal styling. “HBX CORe gave me a window into things I had never considered,” she says. “It showed me business practices I do and don’t want to...
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- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
in six-month apprenticeships with corporate partners like Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, and Partners HealthCare. Upon graduation, Chertavian says, more than 85 percent of Year Up alumni find jobs in financial services or IT support. Recognized twice by...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
found in poor countries; bad legislation and ineffective judiciaries in rich nations can enable it.” Defined by the watchdog group Trans-parency International (TI) as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” corruption includes a...
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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 View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
“You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” Add it all up and you have an early-stage funding problem, with marine-energy projects proving too capital-intensive for venture capitalists and too risky for private...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
stadium crowds cheering live sports? Angela: Well, I think you're one going to see sports played without fans first, then we'll see the six-feet-apart model where we'll go down to 20 percent capacity and maybe the private booths are...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of...
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- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
evolution of the TOM unit, acknowledging that the strong reputation it holds - both inside and outside the School- must be constantly monitored due to the rapidly changing nature of the discipline. In what they call a "paradox of...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
York, Baer had closely monitored the Giants’ plummeting finances and their unsuccessful attempts to get San Francisco voters to approve funds for a new stadium. After East Coast business hours and with Tisch’s blessing, he began...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at...
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Hanna, Julia
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
thousands of children in his native country. He went on fact-finding missions, acquiring intel from Vanessa Kirsch, CEO of New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund supported by the Monitor Group and HBS professor Michael...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
to promote new behaviors and monitor symptoms. They man quarantine control points 24/7 and attend to patients that need to be isolated at village health stations. Many operate without light at night and lose communications when they...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
bruised, she decided to step away from business, attending culinary school and becoming a private chef in London for two years. (Lo donated all her earnings to charity and coauthored a book during that time, Dining with Dictators, which...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
private investment," says Bloom. "Fortune 500 companies have told us that they read our scorecards every year." In countries where the MCC operates, a government entity implements the program agenda, in addition to View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Fifty-three-year-old Vescovo, his long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail, meticulously monitored the operation of the submersible, which he had christened the Limiting Factor. He watched the depth gauge creep up: 7,192 meters, the...
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