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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
winning companies: three other firms were singled out for special mention. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter was one of the eight judges, as was James R. Houghton (MBA '52), the retired board chairman of Corning Inc. "We felt that the IBM and Levi Strauss programs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business opportunity, Hanna realized, for fashionable View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995) was studying economics at Dartmouth in the 1980s when he interviewed for a summer internship at Meredith & Grew, an old-line Boston brokerage and real estate development firm. “If you wanted to say, ‘one of these things doesn’t View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the business rather than fighting wars. If big cities View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
It’s the same as when you meet someone with whom you share similar interests, but despite that, you never really click because you find something in that person’s manner off-putting. In human interactions, we often can adjust our approach and delivery to better View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
wherever you are—angry, sad, overworked, happy,” says Basseches. “You can engage with galleries and collections in ways that fit your mood and spirit.” It’s also, by its public nature, a social experience—whether you go with a friend or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
the rest. And while I always liked having hits, my hits were never based on making music that I thought fit urban radio or alternative rock radio or Top Forty radio. I don’t want only hit records—I did that. I always wanted more. I want... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Matrix Partners.) “I moved to Boston because my four kids were in New England; they moved away almost immediately,” Hellman jokes. “So I moved back to San Francisco and decided I’d better get a real job.” By all accounts, being chairman of Hellman & Friedman View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
HATCHETT: Calm amid market turmoil. Perhaps it’s fitting that in this Olympic year, Morgan Stanley’s Kimberley Hatchett (MBA ’91) was named one of the “Top 100 Women Financial Advisers” by Barron’s (June 9, 2008). Of that group, Hatchett... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
can build a multibillion-dollar business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
what guidelines might you suggest? —Norm Boone (MBA 1977) DITKOFF: At Bridgespan, we define impact investing as “investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns.” As you can see, a broad spectrum of activities View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Everywhere—Finally Fit to Drink On the heels of this past summer’s crippling drought, California hit the switch on a long-promised technological solution to the water crisis: desalination. Poseidon Water’s $1 billion plant in Carlsbad... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
they price their products depend on consumer demand, value, and traditional market forces. Our present system suppresses these forces and innovation. Doctors can only provide services that fit static billing and payment codes. These codes... View Details
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine and I have been engaged in a... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
career. That became clearer when I got to HBS. I learned that, in addition to being inspired by media, I liked to work on projects that had a beginning, middle, and end, which fit perfectly with the world of film and television. All signs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
thatched-roof hut. GiveDirectly payments allowed him to buy building materials and livestock. The family now sleeps under an iron roof fitted with a solar panel and raises goats and cows. “My proudest achievement is that I now own several... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
purchased as a separate attachable seat that fits on a standard toilet for approximately $800, depending on the model, or as an integrated toilet bowl and seat (branded as the Neorest) for anywhere from $3,800 to $5,000. Classroom... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
is available on the Internet at www.nfcom.com/jokes.htm. HBS classmates Humphrey Chen (MBA '96) and George Searle (MBA '96) first met in the HBS parking lot when Chen helped Searle recharge his U-Haul's dead battery. So it's fitting that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
presentations, Cuddy contends that we are likely to lose this self-possession in a fit of worrying about the stakes and self-questioning our performance. If only we could stay in the moment, focused on the task at hand, calmly and without... View Details