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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
A Third Act for Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Widely credited with pioneering the concept of the restaurant industry’s $80 billion “fast casual” segment, Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) started small: a 400-square-foot business in Boston’s Downtown Crossing that sold cookies. From those humble but tasty beginnings, Shaich... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
allows its 600,000 resellers to sell their unused telecom minutes to smaller customers for a profit. "These kinds of entrepreneurial activities strengthen the social fabric by engaging people as equity partners in their own future,"... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Wheel Change
A serial entrepreneur, Paris Wallace (MBA 2007/MPA 2008) is founder of Ovia Health and Good Start Genetics. But he started his first business—an online store selling bike parts and accessories—at age 16. With his launch this year of the National Cycling League (NCL),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
finding there’s strong interest in this.” Think luxury brands that sell in department stores, food and beverage brands that customers encounter in grocery stores or restaurants, or sports team fans who commonly engage with each other... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
time at Berkshire Hathaway, but tells the Times that “I’m not building a Berkshire 2.0. I’m building something different using some of the principles.” Her classmate Andrew Van Pelt (MBA 2009) says her approach is also very different from how some expect private equity... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
important because it gave me immediately some street cred many years later that I’d actually worked in a large hospital system and had worked on changing it and how to sell into hospitals and how unbelievably difficult it is for them to... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Special Forces units while serving in Afghanistan. Saffron currently sells for $2,500 per kilogram because its harvesting and processing are so labor intensive. During the summer after their first year at HBS, Miller served as a brand... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
dropped altogether. Furthermore, it’s not obvious how Maev’s superior products could sell themselves in a crowded frozen pet food aisle. With DTC, a website can tell the brand’s story; in a retail store, product packaging must do that... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
head of operations). "NotCo is now selling in Burger King in several countries because of this intro. And they're starting to test in Starbucks," she says. "So there are a lot of things that we can do to help founders get started. We... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
his mother died, Saladrigas continued to work full-time -- as an office boy and a salesman -- and finished high school at night. At 19, he met and married Olga Maria León, whom he describes as "a great woman with twice my energy," after View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
settling on merchandising—a $40 billion pain point for brands selling into the Latin American market. A finalist in the alumni track of last spring’s New Venture Competition, Zubale (the name, roughly translated from Spanish, means “rise... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
promotional and charitable events, which often are tied to the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay. (One percent of the bar’s revenues are donated to The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other conservancy causes.) “At the Boatyard, what we’re really View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
undertaking. His career path includes serving as director of the Central Bank of Brazil and building Banco Garantia into one of South America’s most prestigious banks before selling it to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. “Claudio has... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
calculated risks." He has followed that philosophy in business as well - and no more so than in 1981, as president of the Polaris E-Z-Go Division of Textron. Says Wendel: "Textron wanted to sell Polaris because the snowmobile business was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White