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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Ettus Photo Courtesy Samantha Ettus In The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2004), Samantha Ettus (MBA ’01) set out to write “a CliffsNotes for life.” Ettus, who is the founder and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
two as personal assistant to the legendary Siegmund Warburg, the firm’s founder and chairman. That was quite a postgraduate education. When I got homesick for America, Siegmund helped me land a job at Kuhn Loeb in New York. Wall Street... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs
those of you who are here making presentations today and trying to build companies," he said. "We need people with that kind of courage and vision." HBS senior lecturer Robert F. Higgins, who is also founder and managing general partner... View Details
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Steven B. Belkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Transcript (PDF) Steve Belkin, HBS 1971, is the founder of the privately held Trans National Group (TNG), a direct marketer of financial, travel, and other services to affinity groups like the American Medical Association. Since founding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
animated screen stars for decades of royalty income. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad developed a rigorous vendor-screening process that, though not sexy, provided the furniture retailer with “an impressive supply chain that is virtually... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
important to have a fully engaged society. “I was at Ford for 13 years and I left to join Carnegie about seven years ago. It’s one of the few foundations that I’ve seen that actually really keeps close to the original mission of its View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
generations to come and shares his personal history as an heir to the Carnation fortune. The message of his great-grandfather, E.A. Stuart, the founder of the Carnation Company in 1899, still holds true today, says Lucas: Be useful. How... View Details
- 21 Jul 2021
Life at HBS Chat: Rock Summer Fellows
Rock Summer Fellows Program. Rock Summer Fellows enables students to continue to explore their entrepreneurial path, both as founders and as those interested in joining early-stage startups, during the summer between their RC (first-year)... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune 500 C-Suite Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Meg Rithmire Managing International Trade and Investment Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Mark Roberge Entrepreneurial Sales 101:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
several when he said, “This isn’t something I’m comfortable with. I do not believe the workplace should be a forum for political discussion as it creates immediate division.” Quoting from a statement by the founders of Basecamp, he added,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
While the economics of the music industry have always been a little convoluted, there’s at least one simple reason contributing to all the attention from private equity, according to Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004): interest rates. The View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
same house for a long time, and in that world it made sense to own the same sofa for 10 years. The new generation has been forced to buy fixed assets even though they know they’re going to be moving before long. For them, the furniture system is broken.” The Question:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
finance, product, policy, or legal, there is a way to tackle part of this big problem,” he says. Caroline Quazzo (MBA 2017), a founder within Exelorate Growth, the internal incubator of Exelon, the leading provider of zero-carbon energy... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
(MBA 1991). Skelly, president and founder of Clean Line Energy Partners, was asked by the Partnership to serve on its board, but declined because he had just been appointed to the Houston Parks Board. He suggested Gilbane, whose company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
Kiddles founder and CEO Andrea Kimmel (MBA 2003) presents this case study query to HBS alumni and faculty: “The team has an aggressive growth timeline, but financing that growth is a challenge. (Center one, a ground-up build, cost a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
HBS alumni excursion was organized by Global Adrenaline, an adventure travel company based in the Chicago area. The overwhelming response to the trip allowed Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), our trip leader and Global Adrenaline’s founder and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Cyberposium
pervasive 24/7 technological connectivity. Highlights included keynote speakers Drew Houston (Dropbox founder and CEO), Lee Hower (LinkedIn cofounder), and Alexa Hirschfeld (Paperless Post cofounder and CEO), as well as panel discussions... View Details
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Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively - Course Catalog
privately held rather than publicly traded. Or they are publicly traded but privately controlled. For example, in the US, around 50% of publicly traded companies are controlled by founders or their descendants. In all of these cases, a... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
presidential election. These results highlight the trade-offs associated with mobilizing voters in recently established democracies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50950 Harvard Business School Case 516-052 Chicken Republic Deji... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
field his generation should focus on, the field that would shape the future. Today's advice for aspiring graduates is also a single word: "software." In a sweeping Wall Street Journal article last summer, Netscape founder Marc... View Details