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- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs
Fitzhugh Conference and the first Black Tech Master Series. It was here that I learned about the diversity in the entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem from Black women investors like Jewel Burks Solomon, who later became my... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
particular focus on the floras of eastern North America and eastern Asia. This jewel in the Emerald Necklace park system was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, America's first landscape architect. Summer Boston's summer days can be... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
all the major RV bodybuilders as well as school buses and postal vehicles. He began his post-HBS career with Jewel Companies, worked for McKinsey and James H. Lowry & Associates, and served as chairman, president, and CEO of Trumark,... View Details
Robert A. Pinkerton II
Pinkerton grew his grandfather's private investigating firm into a large security services company, providing such new services as event security, jewel thief investigation, and industrial building security. Such expansion allowed the... View Details
Keywords: Services
Barbara G. Proctor
agency into the second largest advertising firm run by an African-American by securing business from Jewel Foods, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and Alberto-Culver. View Details
Keywords: Services
- Portrait Project
Kenna Wyllie Baudin
for granted such as fingers and toes and the ability to move my limbs and to breathe. I have been gifted with the treasures of a terrific family, generous friends, formal and hands-on education, travel experiences on five continents, and a thus far rewarding career.... View Details
- Portrait Project
May Lam
found it difficult to relax and simply enjoy the journey. Instead, I lived for the future, meticulously planning and relentlessly driving toward my goal. To me, the end product was the crowning jewel of any venture. I finally began to... View Details
- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
Podcast with: Bharat Anand Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 17 min., 15 sec. Directors of Dow Jones & Co. this week accepted Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion, $60-per-share bid for the company and the jewel in the crown, the Wall... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
working to support our economies. Click on the images below to learn about a few, then help us complete our list by using the comments to recommend other inspired alumni ideas. Guilt-free holiday jewels Open the world to disabled... View Details
- Web
Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
engraving by Joseph Laurent Julien (d.1805). Paris, chez l'auteur; et chez Depeuille, [late 18th century]. 32.5 x 37 cm CA f18 xxx An old woman pawns her jewels to a sinister-looking pawnbroker, whose sign reads: "Je prête Madame, à mes... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Publishing) With Murder You Get Sushi: A Miss Information Technology Mystery by Diane Davidson (MBA 1980) and Mary Ann Davidson, collaborating as Maddi Davidson (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Destiny’s Child: Memoirs of a Preacher’s Daughter by View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
through or new to Houston, this can be surprising. You’ll find high rises on the edge of the nicest neighborhoods or strip malls in the middle of other parts of the city that are somewhat incongruous with strip malls.” But the city has plenty of vibrant green spaces,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
best adapt to differences in the basic institutions of capitalism and consumer preferences across countries as well as within them. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707521 Hallstead View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
owners had seen,” says Edeburn, “was that some of what were considered to be the jewel businesses were either bought up by corporate acquirers or by private equity firms that didn’t have as much of a sense of stewardship with the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
in 1945 his father founded Bajaj Auto, now the crown jewel in the Bajaj Group, which numbers almost thirty companies in a variety of industries. Graduating in 1958 from St. Stephen's College in Delhi with an honors degree in economics,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
years to come,” says Dubin. “In the past we never did that. There were little jewels of wisdom that Seiju spoke about that will be really useful for teaching, and for other students, and for understanding Noom, especially as they move on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
elsewhere. Pursuing higher returns, retailers then enter a vicious cycle of reduced investment and cost cutting that leads to customer dissatisfaction and a lack of differentiation. Supervalu's Jewel and Albertsons stores went through... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
Competition in San Francisco, a crown jewel for startups. Each of the prizes carried $50,000 in award money and while $100,000 in funding is deeply welcome, the affirmation of their concept was even more rewarding for Sapone and Beck. For... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
legendary jeweler but became complacent and lost its clients. Taken over in 2001 by a new leadership team, Mauboussin engaged in a radically different strategy and abandoned its ultra-prestigious and exclusive positioning to embrace a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel