Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider

authentically adapt it to the local market,” says Prakash. “Building up our team, dealers, and manufacturing capabilities from a clean sheet of paper was really rewarding.” After India, Prakash served in the same role in Canada and is now... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Feb 2014
News

A Capital Idea for Small Business

Callaghan McGee Photos by Tracy Powell (Editor's Note: Brad McGee passed away in November 2015.) John Callaghan (MBA 1984) and Brad McGee (MBA 1987) became close friends while growing up in the small town of Carmel, NY. Their friendship... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Portrait Project

Brett Odom

Live every day knowing that someone will write my eulogy tomorrow. On a dark night over the Adriatic several years ago my best friend lost his bearings and flew his jet into the water, disappearing without a trace. Barely a day goes by... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Under the Hood

There’s more to a championship racing organization than a hot driver and a lightning-fast pit crew. Just ask NASCAR ace Tony Stewart about Brett Frood (MBA 2004), whom he hired eight years ago to run all his racing-related businesses as... View Details

Keywords: NASCAR; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Transportation

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Ann Moore (HBS MBA '78)—called it, "the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit." The anniversary has become a focal point for the School's efforts over the past few years to address its gender disparities head-on. Women now make... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

Yeah. My fifth grade teacher, Gwendolyn Davis, was about the most terrifying educator I had ever had up to that point and probably since. I mean, sort of imagine the terror of a first year at HBS cold call,... View Details

25 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business

As a kid, Lauren Derse (MBA 2010) hit the family business jackpot. Her mom was the CEO and founder of—you guessed it—a chain of toy store franchises. After growing up in small town Massachusetts (and thriving in her role as resident toy... View Details

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Ignacio Lartirigoyen (MBA 2020) Talks Family Business, Bringing Children to HBS, and Agribusiness - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

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Jiao Zhang

celebrated Girls who were told they would never be good at math Girls who had as little significance as the rural towns they grew up in Girls who never thought they could see the world Girls who hated the way they looked Girls who should... View Details

02 Aug 2021
News

Cracking the Code

large team of coders. The most recent funding, led by Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners, amounts to huge news for Bubble, which has largely bootstrapped its way up to this point. The company has been experiencing significant growth in the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)

companies don’t find success but still have valuable IP. That IP tends to be lost, or picked up for little money by companies that don't contribute to the competitiveness of the technology industry,” says Laguë. “I like salvaging them,... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

Locally Grown

to the needs of the state’s sustainable tech sector. “When I set up Aravaipa Ventures, I broke every law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” Fenwick-Smith says. The fund was focused narrowly both topically, on climate change,... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jun 2021
News

On the Road Less Traveled

party, I'll rhyme for them. I'm pretty good at it. And I'm not great. She was great at it. But her 85th birthday. She just, she stood up there and read off a 20 couplet rhyme. So we had a lot of things in common. I knew she was my mother... View Details

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

Portrait Project

Joan Cheng

than try really hard and only come close. I was terrified of getting my hopes up and failing—defined narrowly as not being the very best, number one. So for many years I pushed hard only for those things... View Details

16 Mar 2015
News

A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education

Switzerland. The Trust counts more than 1,600 alumni through its various programs, including undergraduate scholarships, symposia, and school prizes. “Seeing a young student at 14 years old get a first-class degree in physics and go on to... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Mireya Iglesias Ayala (MBA 2025) - MBA