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- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
discussions with Pierre-Jacques and coaching sessions with Jonathan Shepherd, HBS Career Coach, led Tingle to decide Harlem Capital was ultimately worth the risk. “I was sold on the team; I was sold on the mission. And your internship... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
scandal generating more than five New York Times pieces in the month following news of the incident led to an 8.8 percent drop; and long-form coverage of a scandal was followed by a 10.4 percent decline. “These long-form stories that go... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past 25 years, she has successfully... View Details
- Profile
Nathalie du Preez
it to see it from other perspectives." That desire for different points of view led Nathalie to the United States, where she fulfilled a business degree at Wharton and later worked for Goldman Sachs. These formative experiences... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
implement change in an existing large organization," notes Garvin, "for the entrepreneur, staffing is everything. That insight surprised students and led to an interesting discussion." The thirty alumni who were able to come to campus for... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
Monsanto, moving up the ranks to president of its Performance Materials division, a $400 million enterprise. In 1997, he left the company to become president and COO of the Performance Materials unit at BFGoodrich in Ohio. There he led a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
event, Dean Kim B. Clark introduced the panel of five alumni and presented each of them with their award, HBS’s highest honor. Next came the case discussion, led by HBS professor Nitin Nohria, featuring comments from both the student... View Details
- Portrait Project
Leo Chang
I will run with my baton. My baton smells of gunpowder from the hands of my ancestors, as they led armies into battle to forge a modern China. My baton is dulled by grime from my grandfather's hands, as the one-time physicist toiled in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Walter Diaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In an effort to help accelerate land and ocean conservation across the globe, Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) announced in a New York Times opinion piece that he is giving $1 billion over the next decade to support locally View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
being afterwards,” he says. This exploration of indigenous traditions led Sprinkles to apprentice and undergo initiation in the way of the ancient Huichol and Nahua traditions in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Today, he and his wife serve... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
what my priorities are. I actually didn't know what that mission-driven work would be at the time. But I came across a company whose mission it was to democratize access to genetic testing for hereditary cancers. It was that power of genetic information that View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led to bankruptcy. So Harvard... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
ways to increase their performance. Meanwhile a globally networked team of manufacturing experts led by Marty Cole, the case protagonist, is trying to spread best practice from other sites around the globe. Unfortunately these two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
started as an altruistic concern for his family, however, led to a second career as cofounder of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland, an online database that has helped families around the world document their ancestry and find relatives about... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Borders, and Goodwin led a group of his classmates to make the dream a reality. Why did you decide to become the CEO of Executives Without Borders? In my time overseas, I witnessed extreme poverty but saw few working on solutions that... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
building a ship, scrambled to build new ones. That led to a glut of ships competing in the market a few years later, accompanied by a decline in fees going into the hands of owners and, at the end, the scrapping of ships. When the study... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
nearby Hingham, Massachusetts, that she helped create and successfully led over the past eight years. Bourneuf came to HBS eager to gain exposure to developments in the broader business environment and possibly a new career direction.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316144-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-002 Digital Lumens: Creating Value Through Software Digital Lumens, founded in 2007, developed and implemented intelligent LED lighting solutions for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
clearer in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the United States, the building of the railroads after 1850 led to the development of mass markets for the first time. Along with improved access to capital and credit, mass markets... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat