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- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
are a lifelong gamer, a curious Fortnite parent, or a businessperson seeking to understand the marketing opportunities of this multibillion-dollar phenomenon, The Book of Esports charts the rise of this exciting new industry, crafting a... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
"There are three ways to evaluate an opportunity," he says. "First, you need an important problem to work on, one where there is a market that can be created. Second, you need to examine the ways you can address unmet needs and quantify... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
leadership of the Costa Rica–based university in January 2017. To this most recent task, he brings his entrepreneurial mindset, global perspective, and firm belief in the power of young people to change the world. The innovative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
years. "President Bush felt strongly about normalizing relations with China and opening that market to American business," says Franklin. "My mission to Beijing to reconvene the Joint Commission was a win-win situation. The sanction was... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
she describes as her “wake-up call” followed the death of her mother in 2001. “I thought, Why am I waiting to do something that matters?” she recalls. She flew to India to work with CARE, the disaster-relief organization, in helping earthquake survivors to find their... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success By Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) St. Martin’s Press The Entrepreneurial Process, one of Brown University’s highest-rated courses, has empowered thousands of students to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
says Bauerly, “it’s just been a story of abundance. He built a great business over 25 years through all the entrepreneurial zeal that is essential in that first phase.” Granite Equity brought professional resources, networks, partners,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
investing, and I wanted to explore those from an academic perspective,” Owusu-Kesse recalls. Looking back at his three years in graduate school, he notes, “Surprisingly, one of the business courses that helps me the most in what I do today was Professor [Anita]... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000 vehicles. Today, with revenues of $1.5 billion and a View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
entrepreneurial in my role, and that I am given the latitude to form partnerships that will benefit our organization and the cities we work in. “I work with some of the largest and most innovative companies in America. My team resides in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of that: Direct selling is people. The ability of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
WASSERMAN: Shining the light of data on entrepreneurial ventures in order to chart the terrain founders will face when they set out to pursue their dreams. Watch Professor Wasserman explain key insights from his book, Founders Dilemmas... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely Tale of Happily Ever After by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies —... View Details