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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
States Census Bureau - Demographic characteristics, total population, social, and economic census data useful for determining market size. View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
world." Asked about Africa's future, Keshavjee says, "The greatest hope for the continent is the opportunity offered by the creation of regional economic groupings that will provide much larger markets than in the past. The East Africa... View Details
Milton S. Hershey
Hershey founded the first mass market chocolate company in 1900. His chocolate bar was so popular that the company did not advertise it until 25 years after his death. The company’s sales grew rapidly from $622,000 in 1901 to $55 million... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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Amelia Angella Archives | Social Enterprise
Amelia Angella 21 Mar 2019 On the evening of February 28, 2019, 30 HBS alumni gathered at the home of Sarah Perry (MBA 1995)... New Paradigms in Nonprofit Fundraising and Marketing Amelia Angella 27 Apr 2017 On April 12, View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
Rick Grinnell
(acquired by Western Digital). He also has deep operating experience having held senior marketing and engineering roles at Adero (acquired by Inktomi), ClearOne Communications (acquired by Gentner... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New Program for Science-Based Businesses
innovation with market opportunities, and how financial markets value scientific knowledge. Participants will also discuss issues associated with finding, retaining, and motivating scientific talent and... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Morgan Stanley and after launching an adventure-tour start-up, Ransom cofounded Wildfire, a social media marketing company acquired last year by Google for a reported $350 million. Discussing her thoughts on leadership and the culture at... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
such as San Antonio and Chicago to help develop for-profit community organizations. Two years later Lazarus became president of the Washington Council for Equal Business Opportunity. Eventually he left that job, because, he says, "I... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
communication and interaction among HBS graduates involved in all sectors of the health-care industry. "HBS Health provides a natural vehicle for alumni to share information and nuances about what's going on," she noted. "It's important... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
professor Michael I. Norton and colleagues Elizabeth W. Dunn and Lara B. Aknin, described in the journal Science, looks into how and why spending money on others promotes happiness. Norton explains more in this Q&A. 7. Marketing Your... View Details
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
Community Partners program has seen more than one hundred volunteers tackle consulting projects ranging from strategic planning to marketing to technology management. Aside from offering alumni an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
content of the work, the context in which I worked, the issues that I was dealing with, the unfolding of the global financial markets, as well as the political and economic situation that shaped especially the emerging markets of Latin... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
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Avi Kremer
could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
police violence, noting that the lack of economic opportunity has been “catastrophic” to inner cities that have seen massive disinvestment. “These things are related,” he says, in part because the economy hasn’t worked for the majority of Americans over the past... View Details