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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
original donation total. With a second event complete, the two business school graduates at the helm were able to do a deep-dive analysis of their concept and forecast its future. From what they saw, it was positioned to grow rapidly in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
monastery got under way. After four years of negotiations, the two parties reached an agreement in which the bells would be returned to Russia and replaced by a new set. But the church couldn’t finance the project alone. That’s when... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
neighborhoods in Bombay go without it for six hours at a stretch, Nohria remarked. Cities, he continued, "are the perfect laboratory to study these issues." Sponsored by HBS's Business and Environment Initiative and cochaired by... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
directions and lose its focus. Of course, throughout my entire three years in OPM, I was always referred to as the guy in heat. Arch was right on: it wasn’t long before my lack of focus caused my business to stutter, but I was able to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes micro-enterprise loans and business... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
business of creating and managing “equine portfolios,” making Thoroughbred ownership a reality for anyone with the will (and the wallet) to get in the game. “I’m probably the only owner that bought his first horse on credit cards,” Finley... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
nonprofit international development organization that he has chaired for the past decade. While he now draws a firm line between business and public service, the skills he uses in each realm overlap tremendously. Many of those skills —... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
Long a mainstay of the required MBA curriculum at HBS, the General Management (GM) course has been renamed and retooled. Its new name, The Entrepreneurial Manager (EM), reflects a sharpened focus on topics crucial to creating and managing companies in today's... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
commentaries help demystify modern music and make it more palatable to audiences," Lim says. Lim sees his pre-HBS experience as a business consultant as invaluable in Metamorphosen's startup and operation; his corporate-world acumen plays... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
A Definitive Guide to the Brexit Negotiations
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise caution in the formation and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
of the solution for global conservation and natural-resource management. “We will not succeed in our work unless we encourage business leaders to understand the degree to which their businesses depend on the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
Above: Hulme on the rooftop of Google’s London offices (photo by Jon Enoch) What the design-thinking approach at IDEO taught me is that perfection is the enemy of progress. Great entrepreneurs realize that any business is a series of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
that our finance professor in first year was Andre Perald, who had been teaching at the school since the 1970s, so I'm sure many of you had him. And he was like a real figurehead and a really wise, profound professor. He was able to teach... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
to HBS faculty member involved relating to former professors and mentors as colleagues. "I had a hard time calling them by their first names," she says. Now the William L. White Professor of Business Administration and a senior associate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross