Alumni

Leading up to Commencement Day, we’re celebrating this year’s Alumni Achievement Award recipients. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of HBS. Looking back on a wide-ranging career as a leader in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, Bonnie Cohen sees a throughline. “The roles that I’ve held divide into finance and management,” she says. “But really what I’ve done is take up the challenges that people have given me.” Over the course of a multifaceted career, Cohen has held leadership roles in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. A few years out of HBS, Cohen managed the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds; after a family move to California, she served as consultant to Stanford University’s endowment and Hewlett Packard’s retirement funds. In 1989, Cohen was selected as senior financial officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, later becoming the organization’s COO. In 1992, she entered the US government as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget, serving until 1996. In 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright asked Cohen to be her Undersecretary of State for Management—in effect, the agency’s COO. When her term ended in 2000, she founded B.R. Cohen & Associates, a firm providing logistical insights to film companies shooting overseas. More recently, she has worked to revitalize the DC Public Libraries, overseeing a $200 million effort to modernize the flagship Martin Luther King, Jr. Library as well as construction or renovation of 21 neighborhood libraries. Read Cohen’s full journey in the upcoming issue of HBS magazine! You can learn more about all the Alumni Achievement Award recipients at the link in bio.

Your guesses are in! Did you guess correctly? 🌎 Drumroll, please… Our next Alumni meetup will be in London! Join us June 19th for plenty of reminiscing and networking with your fellow alumni. Get ready to make some lasting memories! Learn more - link in bio! #HBSinLondon #HBSAlumni

It feels like just yesterday since the Class of 2024 crossed the stage! Now it’s time to get back to campus for your One-Year Reunion. Join us May 9-10 for the chance to reconnect with your classmates and learn what it means to be an HBS alum! Register in our bio if you haven't already! We can’t wait to see you! #OneYearReunion #Classof2024 #HarvardBusinessSchool

When @cityfreshboston considered expanding into the medically tailored meals space, it turned to HBS students for go-to-market strategies. The company, which has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities, is one of many ventures that benefit from the expertise of second-year MBA students in HBS’s Scaling Minority Businesses course. Launched by Senior Lecturers Henry McGee, Archie Jones, and Jeff Bussgang in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice reckoning following George Floyd’s murder, the course was designed to help Black-owned businesses in Boston not just survive, but thrive, while reinforcing for MBA students how business can be a force for good in the world. Today, it has expanded its partnerships to include companies owned by underinvested entrepreneurs all along the East Coast. Over 12 weeks, students tackle challenges the businesses face, such as access to financial and social capital, offering their partners practical solutions. In return, says Jones, “The biggest takeaway for the students is their ability to have an impact on these underinvested communities—applying what they've learned in class to something that will help solve some societal ills and have personal and economic benefits as well.” #ForceForGood #HBSAlumni #CityFreshFoods #ScalingMinorityBusinesses

🎓 Attention all alumni-we are back on the road! We’ve been to NYC, Seattle, San Francisco, Miami and we have one more location to go! Can you guess where!? We’re gearing up for a night of connecting and making the memories only our HBS alum can make! BUT... where do you think our next stop will be 🌎 ? Vote below and/or give us some recommendations in the comments👇🏽 ∙ ∙ Singapore ∙ London ∙ Chicago #HBSAcrosstheGlobe #HBSAlumni #Community