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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the e-business revolution has focused on highly publicized, often overvalued start-ups and the radical new business models they have created, this book argues that it is the established, traditional firms... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
scrappy,” she recalls. “I learned a lot about the community-building aspects of consumer marketing. That experience has been totally relevant to what we’re doing at sweetriot.” When the start-up siren call got too strong, Endline began... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
Washington, D.C. Business Alone Can’t End Poverty The cover of your March 2007 issue asks the question “Can business end global poverty?” Perhaps you are unaware of the Initiative for Global Development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
policymakers who don’t understand the business arena, and funds that end up in the wrong pockets. In the book, I use examples from Australia to illustrate both problems. Earlier this decade, the Australian government stipulated that the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
picked up steam after a nationwide franchise program launched in 2009. Revenues for that year were $2 million; in 2011, they’re projected to hit $10 million. The company charges employers a percentage of a worker’s hourly rate or salary; franchisees (which now number... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
India and South Korea before HBS, and then I moved to the US for HBS. So, a lot of the two years at HBS was spent, of course learning about, you know, business and the world around you, but a huge part of the transformation was internal,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
what it would mean to feel physically present with anyone from anywhere. It unlocks economic opportunities for people who can’t move to major industry hubs; has the potential to dramatically improve our environmental impact of commuting and View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
skills. After working as a consultant at PA Consulting Services, Ltd., and APM, he joined Genentech in 1992, where he worked for nine years before leaving to launch his own marketing consulting firm, helping biotech start-ups get... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
and the participating organization. Approximately one-third of program alumni are now permanent hires of the organization, one-third are at a similar organization, and one-third have gone on to pursue a position in the private sector. “My job for the first few months... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how to build a View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
address top-management concerns, and share best practices and insights. Women Building Business -an MBA elective field study seminar led by HBS professors Myra Hart and Lynda M. Applegate intended for students who plan to design and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and... View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
replicate that success, the Obama Administration has made an early commitment of $10 million to fund the strategic start-up effort involved in translating HCZ’s approach to 20 “Promise Neighborhoods” in cities across the country. Lauren... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
undergraduates at Harvard College. Together, the trio has turned Vostu from a tiny 12-person start-up to an operation with close to 400 employees in three locations: São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York. “More than 40 million Brazilians... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of... View Details