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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Foley. As consumers move away from the formal dining experience to more casual entertaining, Foley says that his company’s brand must preserve its aspirational quality while maintaining its relevance in people’s daily lives. “Luxury goods are so wrapped up in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
started the company in 1982, one of the founding principles was that although we need the lowest price from our suppliers, we will make every aspect of the transaction as easy as possible. We pay faster than anybody else, we don’t pass on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
Just as you might take ibuprofen to ease a fever, mindfulness can help settle awareness in the midst of challenging situations—whether at home, at work, or in any setting where people of color experience racism. That’s the premise of Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, and since then many have stepped up... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Photos by Nancee Lewis The kind of private schools Chris Crane (MBA 1976) invests in have cement floors, no glass in the windows, cramped quarters, and just enough food on hand for the students to eat. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
where he makes his home and works as a partner at the mergers and acquisitions firm Architect Partners. A two-decade-long drought, a record-breaking heat wave, and a rare dry lightning storm had sparked 350 fires across Northern and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he should put a glass window between the production area and factory outlet store. Maybe the workers wouldn’t like being watched by customers while they worked. No, they said, it’s fine. We’re helping the clients, and we like looking at... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
off to the left. Behind some bushes we see movement and then make out the huge and powerful form of a lion. He slowly stands, yawns, shakes his mane, and lumbers across the road in front of us. Most of us aren’t morning people, but the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
perfect escape. I grew up in the burbs, so Ng’s suburban setting makes the book feel nostalgic, but the mischief that ensues makes it much more thrilling than my childhood. If you’re looking for a ‘wind down... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
his leadership team weighed that risk with the reward: the opportunity to prove the value of its mRNA platform, bring its first commercial vaccine to market three or four years faster than anticipated, and make history. As of August 31,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“Economic development became my passion. I never really imagined going to business school — I visited HBS almost on a lark. But after walking around the campus and talking to students who were interested in development issues and in business as a path to View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
filled, even the blare of rush-hour traffic clogging the central square of Athens out front—is the sound of Greece’s GDP on the move. It’s the ring of an economy finally looking up. “This place would have been empty in 2015,” says Dimos Arhodidis (PhDBE 1998), looking... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
will move your purchasing to the digital space after visiting the pop-ups, so it’s not meant to be a channel of distribution; it’s an acquisition engine and a way to make a brand splash in a particular market. AM: Warby Parker also has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2 by John Allen (MBA ’62) (Synergetic Press) This memoir chronicles the life of the inventor of Biosphere 2, a miniature Earth under glass and the world’s largest laboratory for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc parking lot, spotted with broken... View Details