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- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
believe that the ideas the elite present are not universal and true but, in fact, are designed to serve their own interests. Why are we seeing a surge in populism? See more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s exploration of democracy-related... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
support, establishing contacts with leading CEOs in the region, and sharing expertise that comes from living and working in the Asian environment on a daily basis.” Under McFarlan’s guidance, seven new cases... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. It brought together dozens of academics, practitioners, investors, and policymakers to discuss the current status and future direction of the energy industry. Markey... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
female subjects as the protagonists, I could identify with this immediately. It was a project I could readily support.” So could Bethell, a managing director and founding member of Bain Capital in London, who made a gift to the fund in honor of her 15th Reunion. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
pallets and numerous other custom-designed packaging options. “I started with the vision of saving the world,” she says, “and the first question everyone asked was, ‘How much will it cost?’” Chong saw the need for more environmentally conscious choices while View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Technology Making HBS More Accessible
loved every minute of his time as a student at HBS. Deborah’s relationship with the School has grown stronger in the years since she graduated. “HBS was a tough environment for me,” she admits, noting that in the 1980s the School was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Middlebrooks, Gwen Shuster-Haynes, and John Weber in June 1983, while they were still MBA students. Checking in with them five years later, in June 1988, we discovered many ways in which their lives - and their perspectives on work and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Howard Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations, emphasized the unique learning environment that exists in a classroom of “experienced” alumni students. Building on this knowledge, Breakthrough Insights is content-rich,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
from their mistakes. The conversation yielded a few other overarching ideas, says Meyer. “The future of any startup ecosystem depends on cultivating its talent and enabling it to succeed in the future of work,” he says. “And, for a government to be entrepreneurial, it... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
neighborhoods in Bombay go without it for six hours at a stretch, Nohria remarked. Cities, he continued, "are the perfect laboratory to study these issues." Sponsored by HBS's Business and Environment Initiative and cochaired by... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
McGill University and went to work for Wood Gundy as a bond salesman. In 1948 he decided to pursue his MBA at Harvard Business School, often describing his two years at the School as a life-changing experience that was invaluable in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to weather. Beyond business, ClimaCell is working on providing weather data to developing countries that don’t have the radar and weather station coverage of the sort provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
Alsace-Lorraine—birthplace of the Art Nouveau movement in France—Weidner began collection after his parents gave him a small ceramic piece for his 23rd birthday. “Art is something that has been part of my environment since I was born,” he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
freedom of inquiry. If it’s done well, we know that discipline and excellence of execution can enhance the research environment and learning process. In fact, it’s liberating. I think people admire how we make that View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Marketing Muscle
entrepreneur is seeing things that other people can't see," she stated. "I wouldn't be happy working in a traditional company." With that said, her six-year-old company could be considered something of an institution itself in the heated... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
guarantees that companies that come to Singapore will find a world-class infrastructure and a pro-business environment that features intellectual property rights protection and generous tax incentives. In Yeo's view, however, talent is... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... View Details