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- 25 May 2016
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A Focus on Sustainability
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972), who enjoyed a remarkably successful career in the investment business, has spent much of the last decade focused on his passion for the environment. Channeling his energy, intelligence,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
the investment channels for women entrepreneurs and to facilitate the flow of deals. "In the last few years we have seen a tremendous increase in the numbers of women launching fast-growth ventures in both the high-tech and the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather... View Details
- 06 Mar 2015
- News
Bluemercury Grows Up
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the sales force on the right customers, View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
Recruiting and retaining highly talented executives is a demanding task. Doing this effectively requires that we respect and channel two opposing forces that continually act on "star-quality" managers. I call this "constellation... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
a “social investment bank” that would channel unclaimed assets in British banks and other financial institutions—an amount estimated to be about £500 million—into social enterprises. According to the groundbreaking report, “an effectively... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors have underestimated risks. These... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
HENDERSON: After two decades at MIT, she brings her interest in “green business” to HBS. Major technological shifts always pose a challenge to organizations, and Rebecca Henderson (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’88) has spent the last two decades exploring why some firms barely... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
says. “They were watching five times the amount of video content as the average US consumer.” She took the numbers and the direct-to-consumer streaming plans to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, who had been planning to launch a linear broadcast View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel devoted to food.’ It was a big question mark,” Duda says now with a laugh. “I’ve worked on a small part of a big canvas of cultural change,” Duda says of his consulting career in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
of events that pay homage to the many ways HBS alumni have helped make San Antonio what it is today. Pointing to major companies founded or cofounded in the city by alumni, such as Clear Channel Communications and Southwest Airlines, club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
service. I believe that 2015 will be filled with the emergence and rapid growth of next-generation sports channels (Twitch), new comedy channels (Fine Brothers), new news View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
working with GiveIndia to channel funds directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. Funds are dispersed by GiveIndia to nonprofit partners to supply equipment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were in the new language. Founding... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
research in Hong Kong and Singapore,” she elaborates. “First of all, we found that there aren’t as many Internet executives who have been in their businesses long enough to be able to cash out. Also, mentoring is done through the more traditional View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
experience, right? They like turning on the television, flipping the channels and seeing what's on. And then I think the third thing is from the supply side, I think prices and costs have to be wrestled down. There's a real issue with... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
My Pandemic Pivot
Illustration by Mattes - Getty Images The pandemic has had deep and global impacts, driving change in almost every field and industry. These transformations have been personal, too, and the Bulletin used our social media channels to ask... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
business when I was only 27.” Batten is a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Landmark Communications, Inc., based in Norfolk, Virginia, into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty publications, several television... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
take a company rooted in its history, in one kind of business, and develop a strategy and execution around migrating that experience from the traditional venue of our retail stores into new business areas and channels of distribution,"... View Details