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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the years my research has been increasingly focused on consumer finance, combining case studies, empirical projects, and experiments — the latter often in conjunction with Commonwealth, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
to the ideal of entrepreneurship itself rather than to a single business model or product. That flexibility helps them react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and business models that aren’t working. 2. Look for problems to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
DNA.) We're also planning to launch an AKC-branded pet insurance product to meet a critical need since medical advances that have served humans well are now being made available for our canine companions.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
razor-sharp focus on the future. Although the products have changed over the years—from the glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the cover glass in Apple’s iPhones—Weeks sees a steady pattern of innovation paired with an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
so little energy, the solar production will far exceed the annual energy demand. Many high-performance homes are boxy, modern structures. But an energy-efficient house can’t leak air where walls meet, as typical houses do, making more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
do is take technology and combine it with human nature to create meaningful products.” After she graduated, Matthews did a stint at a startup, but soon left that position to help launch Uncharted Play, a company based in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were once reserved for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
Ellen Guidera (MBA 1986) Ellen Guidera (MBA 1986) has played an active role in the evolution of the HBS immersive student learning experience. Shortly after the first-year Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) MBA course was View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
can experience adventures and activities in the mythical land of Neopia. Neopets was launched in 1999 and quickly became popular after enthusiastic users spread news of it by word of mouth. The site soon became profitable, largely from ad... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
manufacturing these and of getting the supply chain in place. Now we are coordinating the raw material procurement and production across our network of factories and are bringing on more factories to dramatically scale production,” said... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
experienced an immediate change: “I realized it’s not caffeine that gets you focused, you need a calm mind to be able to think clearly—that’s when you can be at your best,” she told Forbes.com. The experience inspired the Pakistani native to View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It's been a busy autumn at HBS. In September, the School successfully launched its first-ever capital campaign (see coverage). A few weeks later, the fall reunions were very well attended. The Alumni Board then held a View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
set itself apart from the pack with uncompromising integrity and accuracy, especially in the rating of structured finance products such as asset-backed securities. Although Becker never spoke with Kroll directly while writing the case,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
innovation adopted as well as inward-facing company concerns such as launching innovative products while managing an existing core business. “The second half of the course focuses in part on how a company’s... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
entrepreneur, and two other cofounders, Keshavjee launched Honey Care Africa (HCA)—with Jiwa as director—to encourage beekeeping as an opportunity to enhance farmers' incomes. "From its inception, HCA has had an explicit triple... View Details