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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
more than 10 awards for innovation. Busbud promotes its disruptive innovation as freeing bus travelers from having to go to physical bus stations to buy tickets or plan their travel while expanding their transportation options. It also views itself as a "green"... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
machine’ and transforming how people tell and experience stories; like Traveling While Black, which puts viewers in the first-person perspective of a Black American on a road trip across the country. “But looking forward, while nothing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Leiman adds. In June, Blink will celebrate one year of serving its European customer base. The road to that milestone began at Soldiers Field, where Leiman and Ogden met through a mutual friend on their first weekend at HBS. Leiman’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
“For the Romans, being an emperor is all about contradictions, because they’ve got to be wildly ambitious, almost a lunatic, but they also have to...consult their peers and carefully use every segment of Roman society.” What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
committee's work will focus on reviewing and possibly refining the Class Notes production process; developing informative presentations that could be taken on the road and delivered through clubs; developing a more robust alumni database... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
solving many of the same problems along the way but in isolation. So she wrote the manual. Drawing on her own experiences and the road map established by Grommet’s ventures, Pieri’s book, How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
rapid as possible. Step on the gas! —Randy Shayler (MBA 2012) Iron out the model first, then roll it out. Build national demand and reputation by executing flawlessly locally—solve a complex and broad problem well enough, and your reputation will precede you and pave... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
calls the yellow brick road of agtech capital. It will no doubt look different from the typical VC model, with more modest returns over a longer horizon. Maybe it’s debt capital. Maybe it’s a version of venture philanthropy, or at least... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
After graduating from college, Marriner and two friends cofounded the organization, which runs project-based learning opportunities that let students broaden their understanding of what they can do in the world by hitting the road and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
in her recent autobiography, The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond (Wiley). Her first-year class had just eighteen women (including herself) and five black men. “No one at Harvard,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
evacuated with your family, how did you learn that the Long Beach plant withstood an almost direct hit? In a day or so we got a report from one of our employees who had chain-sawed a path through trees on the roads to check on the plant.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
oil." He also notes that the EV1 will be the most emission-free vehicle on the road today, surpassing even the newest gas-powered cars that feature state-of-the-art emission-control technology. Analysts point out, however, that while... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
will play a much better game. It’s no different with entrepreneurship.” A second breakthrough was establishing that entrepreneurial activity is not limited to start-ups but can take place in existing organizations, old or young, big or small, and by teams as well as... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
company owe the people and groups, particularly the weakest and most vulnerable, that may be left behind as the company moves forward?" Down the Road That movement forward, inevitable and inexorable, becomes ever more pressing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge across industry targets... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seven years old and did not speak a word of English. Her father, a pilot, often took the family on weekend adventures to locations that were accessible only by air, landing a single prop plane on roads while vehicle traffic waited for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
down the road and looking to change direction, don’t hesitate to jump in. I’m a huge fan of starting your own company, because I think it lets you get closer to life. Your destiny is in your own hands. If it’s Sunday night and you’re not... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
hardly be called work. My biggest worries now are missing the brown drake hatch on Silver Creek and dodging elk on the road to Stanley." As I looked around Section F in 1974, I knew that my sectionmates would be successful but, like... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer