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- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
really just a means to help me form and develop my ideas. The first month, I sent it to 20 or 30 friends. That’s the only marketing I ever did for it.” Since then, the Business of Fashion has grown steadily at a rate of over 100 percent... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
their organizations and push for gender parity in light of these changes.” For guidance in planning the event, the club reached out to HBS professors Robin Ely, who is an expert on gender issues and Joseph Fuller, an expert on the future of work. “It was such a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills developed a “natural concern” about... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he briefly had a job creating facial-recognition software for airports. An entrepreneur at heart, he then launched and ultimately sold a successful instant messaging software company. That sale, in 1999, allowed... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
Mansoor Basha (GMP 13, 2012) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Mansoor Basha (GMP 13, 2012) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) At the start of the pandemic, I hunkered down like everyone else. But as time went on and the death toll rose, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
could be with us to talk about Harvard's information-technology path for the future." "We were delighted that both President Rudenstine and Dean Clark could be with us to talk about Harvard's information-technology path for the future." The View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change... 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 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
knowledge into action and, at the same time, be aware of their own character and values. In short, the School’s vision for 21st-century leadership requires a commitment to three dimensions of learning: knowing, doing, and being (see sidebar next page). Innovation as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Suchismita had resolved that she was going to open a bank account. "That morning," Nundy recalls, "Suchismita spent hours in preparation, bathing and dressing up as if for a wedding. As we drove to the bank, she told me it was the first View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01) (Harvard Business Press) In today’s economy, executives must slash costs while planting seeds for tomorrow’s growth. Anthony explains how: by pruning your business... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
and expertise as a former marketing executive for Ann Taylor and Nickelodeon, Cycle for Survival to date has directly funded over a dozen clinical trials and studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. "Jen was a leader extraordinaire, a... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
occur often enough to reach as many mouths as possible. He designed the organization like a startup, built to scale, with chapters of “Robins” around the world who team up with restaurants and other organizations in their local cities and communities. View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
promising distance learning initiative that will enrich the prematriculation process for incoming students. In Executive Education, the Program for Global Leadership now includes distance learning modules on global financial markets and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
building global distribution. He renamed the entire operation Intalite. “Within a month, I was on an airplane to Germany and Denmark setting up distribution,” he remembers. “American manufacturers of specialized ceilings were so insular at the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken