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26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his strategic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to get home to see if their View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

guy, and he shall be missed by the marketing world. Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) I was a student of Professor Salmon’s in 1962 and 1963, an experience that was transformational for me and for my family business. In those years, as part of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

a federally-sponsored RCT study show that Year Up’s impact on the earnings of graduates are among the largest of any workforce organization in the country. My role as Strategic Advisor to the Office of the CEO is focused on two projects: 1) building a growth View Details

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

contest, which you can see here. After doing the initial legwork, teams pitch their plans on Super Saturday and each team is evaluated by 5-6 expert judges - a mix of entrepreneurs, operators, and investors. Ten semi-finalists are chosen... View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school,... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

friends and family while hanging out in a VR living room, to attending a concert with hundreds of people from around the world, to just playing games together.” Can you tell us about your role as head of product marketing for AR/VR... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

up the next morning and asked, ‘What can we do to help?’ This is a wartime environment, and businesses need to step forward however they can,” said Harl. Originally planning to make and sell units at cost, a shield producer in Maine... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

significant financial burdens or obligations, such as family members who are dependent on them. We also plan to create a Recognizing Individuals Seeking Equity (RISE) Fellowship to support students with... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

review. And I think that would be my biggest suggestion: don’t think that more is better. In this case, it is not. Q: Very helpful as I think about planning my next family vacation. Thales, thank you for... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

misconduct disclosures may be higher. Near the top for best ethical practices was USAA Financial Advisors, which serves military families and had only a 3 percent rate of misconduct. More distressing than the rates of financial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

material wealth, but we believe it also leads to a powerful contribution to familial wealth, country wealth, and ultimately, wealth for the continent,” says Royster, cofounder of Maarifa Education, a pan-African education holding company.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

both of which she’d later use at the helm of the beauty brand. Yet, as Leahy notes, she didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

States (US), including different racial and ethnic groups. The report showed that a lack of support from employers and health plans is negatively affecting women at the height of their careers. Women find themselves in a unique bind just... View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

Medical City Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 613-022 Describes Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre residential and research cluster in central Florida, and its process and innovation culture, and Lake Nona Institute, the organization... View Details