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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
knew its impact could extend far beyond her own situation. It meant she could devote herself to Rocket Learning, the nonprofit she had launched in 2020 with her brother, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019), which... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
some board meetings at a time when the company was being approached by investors. I took a look at their P&L and balance sheet and told my wife’s family, “You’re rock solid. You don’t need any investors. And if you’re interested in going public, you View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
on one of our host’s horses. It was a beautiful day, and as I rode I began to see all kinds of wildlife—impalas, dik-diks, wildebeests, giraffes. I got closer to the game on horseback than I ever could have in a vehicle because, to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
that women could lead in war and must enjoy equal rights. In helping to cement the territorial defeat of ISIS, whose savagery toward women astounded the world, these women played a central role in neutralizing the threat the group posed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
institutional agility are also priorities. In addition, Wolfensohn wants to create a "Knowledge Bank," to take advantage of new technology as a repository of the Bank's decades of accumulated data, information, and know-how that could... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"I wanted to be closer to the work the Enterprise Fund was doing on the ground and to see what else I could do in Egypt—and that was too difficult to judge from the United States." In September 2018, she returned to Cairo. [music] Enan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
reasons—so why not jump-start that mindset by throwing your body ahead of your inhibitions? Looking goofy doesn’t matter. Your ideas matter. Action matters. Investing in change matters. Plus, swinging from the ceiling with professional... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a lot of money fast. That could... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
failure, ego stuff, and I honestly, if I could go in a time machine, the one thing I would tell that person is just savor and enjoy it. When is the next time you’re going to be in your 20s or early 30s around a bunch of really smart,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
no.” Fast money: “My husband, Barry, and I raised a million dollars in two weeks to start Bluemercury in 1999. The initial idea was to build an e-commerce company, but then we changed course and focused on freestanding beauty stores where you View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
our business. We have built a business that is, despite our small scale, has a very clear track record of profitability, and have had the fundraising challenges And his response was "Well, you're not really a fast-growing business." And he's right. He was applying a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
stay patient. There is so much we want to and could do, but there are only so many hours in a day.” Why should companies consider purchasing art from ArtLifting? "Oftentimes, companies come to us when they're already in the market for... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
provided guides on specific discussion topics such as defining personal success, developing an entrepreneurial mindset and business ethics, to cover over the course of the program. But we left it very flexible so they View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
worked at Bain long enough to get that “business is war” mindset — don’t turn your back too long or else.... What’s the most rewarding aspect of your job? Seeing the impact of HBR. I recently gave a speech to a group of CEOs, and one of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
at-home access to devices and the internet is a must-have. I hope this crisis changes our mindset about that. Khan Academy doesn’t solve that problem, but we can use our soapbox to help advocate for that. There seems to be writing on the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details