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The above link connects to the most frequent points of contact between the School and its alumni. We hope it will make HBS services more accessible to you, as well as suggest new ways to take advantage of the HBS network.
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The summer months have been productive ones for the HBSAA Board of Directors. The Executive Committee met in New York in July and discussed assignments for the upcoming year. The following committees were identified: Continuing Education for HBS Alumni, chaired by Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64); Marketing Alumni Services and Programs, chaired by Judith R. Haberkorn (111th AMP); and Support for HBS Clubs, chaired by Vasil J. Pappas, Jr. (MBA '76).
We will be sure to update you on the Board's activities as they relate to these committees in forthcoming issues of the Bulletin. In the meantime, this fall we welcome a new "class" of Board members who will be profiled in this issue and the next few issues of the Bulletin. I hope you will turn to them as your representatives if you have specific questions or issues you'd like to discuss.
Charles F. Milner, Jr. (MBA '65)
September 1998
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Virginia L. Davies (115th AMP) is a vice president at Goldman
Sachs. She is a former vice president at the Bank of Montreal and previously worked for the Canadian Department of Justice. A
native of Toronto, Davies attended Trinity College and earned an LLB
from the Law School at the University of Toronto in 1979. Davies, who
now lives in New York City with her husband and two teenage daughters,
serves on the boards of the Public Education Association and Arts
Connection.
A native of Mexico, Alfredo ("Tito") Elias, Jr. (MBA '75), is
general director of Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxiliares in Mexico, which
runs Mexico's 58 airports. He has held deputy secretary positions with
the Mexican departments of Energy and of Mines and Basic Industries. In
1980 he was a visiting professor of finance at Harvard University, and
from 1978 to 1980 he was dean of the School of Engineering at
Universidad Aná‡huac in Mexico City, where he earned a degree in
civil engineering in 1973.
James G. ("Shay") Garvey (MBA '84) is a partner at Delta
Partners, a venture capital firm in Dublin, Ireland. After earning his
MBA, he first worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. in Paris and
then became a managing director of the Irish Seafood Producers Group.
Born and raised in Ireland, Garvey studied chemical engineering and
earned a BS from University College Dublin in 1976 and an MS from the
University of New Brunswick in 1978. He has served on the board of
Portiuncula Hospital since 1995.
Since earning her MBA in 1993, Jennifer E. Gilbert has been
president of Art Investment Inc., a publishing firm in Boston. She is a
director of the Business Associates Club and president of the HBS
Network of Women Alumnae. From 1996 to 1998 she was chairman of Teen
Voices, a nonprofit organization that publishes a teen magazine. Gilbert
earned a BA in economics from Williams College in 1986.
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Of the School's 60,000 active alumni, some 25,000 have volunteered to
make themselves available to other HBS graduates to answer questions and
offer advice about careers, industries, and job changes. "This is the
most valuable HBS career resource," states Alumni Career Services
assistant director Bob Gardella. "Most advisors will go out of their way
to give fellow HBSers all the information and advice they can and, if
necessary, put them in touch with knowledgeable colleagues." While
emphasizing that alumni advisors should not be considered an employment
service but rather a way to seek out information and counsel, Gardella
notes, "This kind of person-to-person exchange has proven to be the most
effective way for people to locate the type of position or career that
best suits them. An estimated 70 to 80 percent of HBS alumni find jobs
through networking."
Alumni can contact the Alumni Advisory Network by accessing the HBS Web site (www.alumni.hbs.edu), by visiting or telephoning Baker Library's Cole Room (617-495-6782), or by calling the HBS club in their area. Gardella suggests that before approaching advisors, alumni should be well-prepared in terms of what they want to ask and learn. When they are ready, alumni should contact an advisor with an introductory letter, or phone call, and a rŽsumŽ; a follow-up phone call is appropriate. Alumni advisors should not be asked for jobs, Gardella notes, adding that the advisor list is for the exclusive use of HBS graduates and should not be utilized by any other individuals.
A sixteen-page guide to services and resorces is available from the Office of Alumni Career Services. It includes a number of tips for people involved in job searches or career changes. Copies may be requested by contacting the Alumni Career Services Office by telephone (617-495-6587) or fax (617-496-5699) or by e-mailing Bob Gardella (rgardella@hbs.edu).
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Boston HBS Club Announces 1998-99 Program
The Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston sponsors approximately thirty events each year for Boston-area alumni and their guests.
This year's offerings feature a new Internet Program Series to update HBS alumni on the business implications of the ongoing information technology revolution. The club's popular Leadership Breakfasts will include guest speakers Peter Lynch, Esther Dyson, and Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66), among many others. Dining out, museum visits, career seminars, programs geared to recent graduates, and family events are also scheduled.
Boston-area graduates should contact Arlene McNulty at 617-489-3633 for membership information.
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