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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
sharp declines in cash use and other major disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. Enter Millicent, the blockchain-based digital financial venture Dyer cofounded a year ago. Both a financial network and a social impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
lay on his cot having been in the country for 12 hours as the mortars came in, trying to figure out how he was going to take this unit and find the bad guys ” When I came back from Afghanistan, I told Professor Jim Cash that the Harvard... View Details
- 04 Oct 2024
- News
On the Vineyard, Black Alumni Reconnect With Friends and HBS
HBS on the Vineyard In the opening remarks, HBSAAA Co-President Nina Henderson Moore (MBA 1991) welcomed guests, and HBS Professor James Cash shared updates on plans to expand opportunities for alumni to engage with HBS. Heaven Douglas... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
stores, or for cash withdrawals. Others finalists included George Hessler (MBA 1985), who pitched Magma Trading, a new kind of stock market for large block trades that he’s dubbed “the Costco of trading.” Aiden Feng (MBA 2016) introduced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni competition totaled more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
Credit due: Trade cards ca. 1870 (top) showed that everything from sewing machines to harvesters could be purchased on installment; the dangers of extending credit instead of demanding cash (bottom); Baker Library Historical Collections... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
consider a partnership with a bank, building your own payment gateway, or taking cash on delivery. A lot of e-commerce companies in India take cash on delivery for online orders. —Kiran Brahmandam (GMP 15,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture low-cost medical beds for Indian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
do I help weak performers improve quickly? How do I coach our strongest performers to become even stronger? —Lauren Moore Park (MBA 2011) Principal-in-Residence, Achievement First, Brooklyn, New York What needs to change in education? C.J. View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
said Wallace, who estimated that the value of fellowship support she has received since attending boarding school exceeds $400,000. “Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to give that amount in cash someday,” she concluded. “But even if I can’t, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
compliance with its loan covenants. The decision to sell its newspapers—a move that would help raise the cash necessary to comply with a time-sensitive refinancing agreement—was announced in February 2012. "The company's difficult... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Governors in 1966 (Ferguson, appointed in 1997, was the third), closed the conference with remarks at a Sunday brunch. Other featured speakers included BET president and COO Debra Lee and former FCC chairman William Kennard, now a managing director of The Carlyle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
me to ask questions about how people treated each other in the workplace, along with how and why some rose to the top while others languished in the nether regions. It is quite possible that OB is one of the most important courses in the MBA Program. After all, a lot... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
becomes one of the only black women to have raised that much cash in private funding. According to Project Diane, just 34 black women have raised over $1 million in venture dollars. Last year, Woolley-Wilson spoke to the New York Times... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
But we felt if we marketed the shoe under a smaller brand, it might be taken more seriously as a specialty product.” The creative deal hashed out between the companies called for GoLite to get a cash infusion (neither party will say how... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
discover how to balance productivity, quality, job satisfaction, and cash flows.” For some, he adds, “It’s the first time they’ve had to engage in high-pressure manual work that requires a lot of dexterity, and they gain an appreciation... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross