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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Group, I had the privilege of buying, owning, and advising businesses one at a time — investing in them in ways that would help them grow," she muses. "So when I walk into a small business today, I understand the issues very well." Karen...
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- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002) is chief operating officer of Habitat for Humanity International. In this interview she talks about the critical importance of providing decent housing for people around the world. “I have the privilege and...
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- 30 Mar 2015
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Creating a sustainable world
real-time, shared bus services for workers whose employees pay monthly subscriptions for the service. “I especially find it rewarding as these emerging companies develop projects that, in the long run, will contribute to a better world for the coming generation; they...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
granted today—the nonprofit sector and philanthropy—didn’t exist in the mid-‘90s. The idea of being of service to others, to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty, has felt to me as the highest possible calling. What a privilege...
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- 20 Mar 2023
- News
Taking His Shot
wouldn't have even been able to play professionally. Were it not for these incredible guys in Boston that I met in business school who convinced me that I should dream and give tennis another shot, I wouldn't be here," Pecotic told the ATP. "I feel so View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- News
Cahill to Lead HBS External Relations
this role as the School has raised close to $900 million and energized alumni at 22 events around the world during the Campaign. The Campaign, publicly launched in April 2014, is part of The Harvard Campaign, which concludes in 2018. “It is a great View Details
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
Summit, when the press took notice and filed stories, went to her head. If anything, she became more aggressive and finally crossed the line separating irksome from menacing, whereupon her campus privileges were officially — and...
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- 25 Apr 2018
- News
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, because, despite coming from a relatively View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
the Alumni Board, the Visiting Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Associates. “I’ve enjoyed working with the talented External Relations staff, and it has been a real privilege to have met so many outstanding graduates,” she...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the View Details
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- 01 Feb 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Greetings from snow-swept Minnesota! In the last few months, I've had the privilege of visiting HBS a number of times, and I wanted to update you on my trips and the things I learned while on campus. After attending the Fall Reunions in...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
Head of the Class Re: Warrior Spirit I am privileged to know Chatri [Sityodtong] personally, and I can tell you that he is a generous, kind, and unstoppable force of nature. He is a frequent guest in my classes at INSEAD in Singapore,...
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- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
protesting them, providing inappropriate detail, detour statements, false smiles. The issue that I’m most concerned about right now is inside threat mitigation. Studies show that anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent of cyberattacks were inside jobs by employees with...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
I was terrified during my first year. But I found the School to be such an exciting place, and I learned to voice my positions. The entire time I was at HBS I was aware of what a privilege it was to be there. The School provided me with a...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
. . And I don’t care to give a half a million, either. But if by giving five million dollars I could have the privilege of building the whole School, I should like to do it.” The prominent New York firm of McKim, Mead & White, architects...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Convening Power
life and it’s a privilege to be able to give back to a school that has given us so much.” “Harvard Business School was transformative for Seth,” added Beth Klarman. “He is truly one of the School’s success stories—not just in his business...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
Baker and the founding of the School was so well received by alumni that it led to a book-length history of the School that I had the privilege of writing. Special issues on entrepreneurship, alumni in public service, 25th Reunion...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
wonderful old house across from campus,” says Mills. “The boys have made a great adjustment. Brunswick and Maine are very special, and it's really a privilege to live there.” At home, the cheerful and unflappable Mills often has official...
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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov. We started the International...
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