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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450 million in View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
witness to it. That's priceless. If I could turn back the clock, I would spend more time getting to know more people, because I've found the friendships to be enduring and valuable." [Howe, in fact, keeps in touch with some of his section classmates through an annual... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
former partner and current HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart (MBA '81, DBA '95) - Stemberg created a company whose sales of $3.1 billion in 1995 are expected to surpass $10 billion when a merger with Office Depot becomes official... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lincoln Electric Company, from the brink of financial ruin to record sales and profits. The book is full of out-of-the-box ideas, shrewd business wisdom, and unorthodox techniques. As Hastings stated, “I didn’t write this book to teach... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
Australian dollar takeover, which in US dollars probably somewhere north of $1.5 billion. So a lot of money, one of the biggest takeovers in this Australian corporate history. I was organizing all of that and leading up to the takeover I... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
have been and what was still possible for someone like Nasaru. Hanna: You also got to witness that process in your church, when your church received a significant windfall from the sale of some real estate. And I wondered if you could... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
together for dinners and have wonderfully spirited conversations.” At HBS, Leger was involved in the Social Enterprise Club and participated in social impact consulting projects in Peru and Haiti. “My job search was a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack to find... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
of product, and then more than quadrupled sales the following year. In 2012, a year the company invested in a dedicated processing facility, it sold more than 70 tons, and were on track to source 100 tons from smallholders in 2013. In the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
sense of that journey? That's quite a transition. Denise Murrell: It is definitely a transition, but it wasn't a sudden transition. I actually think it was pretty organic and it unfolded over time. I finished HBS in 1980 and worked for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
HBS, in which two-thirds of the student body are members. Their activities, which are open to the entire HBS community, range from running conferences to leading study trips abroad and from organizing major social events to sponsoring... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey