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- 16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
second round of funding, with the goal of expanding into the Mexican market before moving on to Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Chile. In its first year, through word of mouth alone, users completed 170,000 tasks—work that in some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
well-researched, expert advice, she turned to other working parents, asking, What do you wish you had known? Those inputs helped Dowling guide colleagues at Blackstone, where she had taken a job as head of talent development. Helping people View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
an opportunity to create a fourth way that would lower the financial barrier to private-jet travel while guaranteeing high-quality service and aircraft through a partnership with NetJets. Allard and his partners, who also came with... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
summit drew a sold-out crowd to the Houston branch of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Billed as the “best one-day energy conference in Houston,” the summit explored a range of energy topics through a series of fireside chats and panel... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Catherine Kuehn Price (MBA 1986) and Malcolm Price (MBA 1987)
after HBS, adds that returning to campus for reunions has given her an appreciation for the School’s ability to keep pace with the evolving practice of business. “I’m fascinated by all the changes,” she says. “There’s so much going on with View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that information from a business and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
conjecturings. Would it not be nice if, parallel to this building, there were another building where the neat shipping cartons were unpacked and the clever fabrications went through uninspection, disassembly — were torn back down and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
through foreclosure. (Dlodlo plans to export this bipartite model to Africa to help prevent families there from suffering the fate that befell her own family after her father died.) From the outset, Dlodlo was committed to pursuing a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
position in the mergers and acquisitions business. In addition, the firm has had some notable successes in its merchant banking business, having participated in the buyouts of IMAX, Maybelline, and Collins & Aikman, in particular.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
HBS network through which they met their investors. “We couldn’t have built this business without HBS,” Theuerkauf says. HBS senior lecturer Jeff Bussgang served as the faculty supervisor for one of the Syrup cofounders’ independent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
securities firm, Carl Ferenbach entered theworld of investment banking, spending five years as the head of Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions group. In 1984, he and four other HBS alumni organized what would become Berkshire... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
backing from Bling Capital, DCM, and Precursor Ventures. Saga grew its initial customer base during the pandemic as families searched for ways to stay connected across the distance, Lin says. Through the app, a user can share weekly... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing
which provides a SaaS platform for marketers to manage their presence on social networks, is a division of Google, and is among the largest acquisitions ever made by the Internet giant. Wildfire now has over 25,000 paying customers who... View Details