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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
secret,” she says. “I’ve spent the last 15 years in Africa really trying to not only unlock the agricultural and food potential on the continent, but also to enable our enterprises to scale.” Sahel Consulting provides strategy consulting support, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Alexander Mirza proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts, and offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in smart contracts helps businesses get to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
diversity of businesses and products that were virtually unimaginable before the advent of full-service financial institutions. Named president of the firm in 1984 and chairman in 1991, Fisher is widely recognized for his role in both envisioning and View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
becoming president of the local farmers’ market at 15. Her post-HBS career began at Berkshire Hathaway, where she was hired after sending a letter seeking employment to the firm’s legendary chief executive... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
three major Executive Education programs in marketing management and sought to expand his global view of business by working with management schools in Europe, Japan, India, Mexico, and Australia. Marshall... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets 2013-15 Named Most Powerful Woman in Finance by American Banker 2016 Joins Board of Directors, Robin Hood Foundation Chief Executive Officer, J.P. Morgan... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
principles. A few days before the Namsan walk, Korea’s national college entrance exam took place—the test that, in the minds of most, will define their child’s future. Airline flights were suspended during the listening comprehension portion of the English test;... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
market in early 18th-century Japan, Wall Street’s first financial panic in 1792, and the Federal Reserve’s highly controversial response to the global financial turmoil of 1931. The course debuted in the spring 2008 term; six weeks later... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some ways replaced Adam Smith’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
their dismay they learned that because Pompe afflicts so few people — less than one in 40,000 — no treatment had yet been developed. Determined to change that, Crowley quit his job as a marketing executive... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a Friday night fight every week of the year. The challenges posed by that sort of expansion are not lost on Cui, a Canadian native and former ESPN executive whose successes include selling the X Games to Chinese officials who had never... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
“Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days,” says Lu, noting that using a single human driver for that route would take more than five days. For TuSimple, successfully alleviating the strain on the labor... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
1974 Named Executive Director, Unibanco 1983 Launches Banco Pactual S.A. 1998 Launches JGP Asset Management 2001 Joins HBS Board of Dean's Advisors 2002 Jakurski House opens, British School 2002 Named Chair, HBS Latin America Advisory... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and public health, so that he could best apply his experience to enhance an existing nonprofit’s work. In 2019, D’Antonio joined the national nonprofit Shatterproof as executive vice president, with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
interest — on this mostly Republican $10 trillion debt, up from slightly less than $1 trillion when Reagan took office, is equivalent to about 40 percent of all the personal income taxes Americans pay each year. Imagine what would happen if the View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
manifesting there? Mike Luca: Tech companies shape the information we see, the products we use, and the markets we participate in. This raises important societal questions about the decisions business leaders make. Is Airbnb facilitating... View Details