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01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

energize your current customers to recruit new ones. Before companies enter the social-networking world, however, four “POST” questions need to be answered: People (what are your customers ready for?); Objectives (what are your company’s... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

Leonard A. Lauder

Well before he officially assumed the CEO title, Lauder was the “man behind the scenes,” shunning publicity and acknowledgment to perpetuate his mother’s image. While his mother, Estee Lauder, tended to external relations, Leonard built... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Richard H. Jenrette

for the firm. Jenrette was instrumental in taking the company public in 1970 making it the first publicly traded investment firm in the United States. Taking the helm of DLJ in 1973, Jenrette shepherded it... View Details

Keywords: Finance

28 May 2019
News

Tech for the People

about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their business model,” he observes. Tsai says courses such as View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Fast Answer

Africa: research, news, analysis

in-depth interviews with African entrepreneurs and investors that reveal how they built their companies.(Full Access should be finalized by the end of May) Company Information Capital IQ Data on public... View Details

Portrait Project

Sharon Liszanckie

public education system. I seek to learn what I don't know so that I am able to return to my work in schools, build an educational consulting company with a mission to improve instructional quality, and... View Details

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Workplace Diversity: Data Sources

conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research. Includes polling on work and employment, mostly focused on issues relating to women and minorities. View Details

John C. Bogle

public by selling directly to them and eliminating load fees or sales charges. Over the course of two decades, Bogle built the second largest fund company in the world. View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2018
News

A Force for Good

forged his career at the nexus of business and social impact. With his latest project, Skillist, he is building a fairer, more effective hiring process. Skillist is a proprietary, skills-based application system that works with companies... View Details

Thomas Adams, Jr.

Experimenting with chicle (a gum substance from the Mexican Spodilla tree), Adams discovered a commercial use for the substance by utilizing it in the manufacture of a chewing gum. Adams developed public acceptance of this new and unique... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Charles R. Hook

Hook is known more for his progressive employment practices than for building Armco into the leading producer of sheet metal. He was an advocate of full-disclosure and loyalty policies towards employees and was also active in the field of View Details

Keywords: Metals

Career Coach

Michelle Antonio

Wharton School, both as Director of MBA Career Management and the industry advisor covering the Consulting and Public Interest sectors, 4 years as an MBA Recruiting Director at Deloitte Consulting, and time as a strategy consultant at... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Government

29 Apr 2015
Blog Post

2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business

never imagined business and public health could ever be related. But when I was accepted into the 2+2 Program, I challenged my understanding of “business” and was able to find a company that was using their... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

Twitter among them—in filing an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in opposition to the recent public charge rule that denies admission to applicants who may need public... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

18 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

companies like Frazier and Merck got from the President. Their companies have products dependent on government approvals and major regulatory issues before Congress and the administration. Given these... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Walter D. Fuller

Fuller successfully stepped into Cyrus Curtis’ role and led the publishing company through 25 years of top level financial performance. He expanded the base of the company’s publications – most notably, the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

have been experimenting with integrated project delivery—a collaborative process that involves unprecedented teamwork and shared decision making throughout a design and building project. A number of companies are developing... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

were lofty, she found her ideal internship through an ordinary process: searching the HBS job portal. “I had been working with a career coach to look for a mission-focused health-related startup,” Yoonjin explains. “At BCG, my clients were really big: global View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

invention. What we’ve witnessed in these past months is so many health care workers and health care companies becoming instant entrepreneurs, and also public officials becoming View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

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