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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
might’ve been something like Competition and Strategy, and it was kind of an open session where the case was on branding, and this company was actually trying to brand lobsters. And I guess for a while they were pretty successful—they had their own submarine to go down... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process their salaries. Their weapons... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
connection, when Pao was helping a young woman find a consulting internship. She checked with Matthew Krentz (MBA 1987), a senior partner in BCG’s Chicago office. “My email was 75 percent about the intern position, 20 percent about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
my intuition. Chad Waite (MBA 1983) OVP Venture Partners Gut Check In 2012, just one year into my VC career at Bessemer, I met a sharp and energetic founder named Nat Friedman. He told me about his company, Xamarin, which helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
term. “It is these shareholders who pushed companies to generate returns at levels that were not sustainable. They also made sure high returns were tied to management compensation. The pressure to produce unrealistic profit fueled increased risk-taking. And as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
employers to check a job applicant’s legal status. He also opposes awarding amnesty and supports building a wall along strategic sections of the U.S.-Mexico border. Edwards’s centrist leanings can also be seen in his votes with the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
for people who don’t otherwise have them. There’s a savvy to how she’s approaching what she’s learned and how she’s contributing, and a clear sense of a north star. She’s driven not by checking things off boxes or adding things to her... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
"What did people do before ATMs?" That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking - face-to-face with a teller - between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The idea of making out a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
LA and a quick visit to check out the Globe’s new offices in downtown Boston, Singer (MBA 2000/JD 2001) dives into a Starbucks; the unanswered question evaporates in the effort to acquire a restorative latte with one pump of mocha. It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, coauthored by Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) and Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) This book also features contributions from seven other HBS alumnae. (Okay, I’m biased, as I contributed, but View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
began, there is something I would call purpose decay. It’s not something you can do once and check the box. And I saw in companies like Boeing or even Johnson & Johnson, which were famous for having a strong purpose orientation, that how,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
a booth every Saturday at San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.) No stranger to weathering economic downturns (she met employee payroll out of her personal checking account in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
to check in with Hanna to determine if a follow-up is in order; for now, these cases offer important takeaways for districts that too often find themselves in the position of circumventing HR. “Part of the power of this case combination... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
log in to www.alumni.hbs.edu, take a minute to complete your profile (and don't just update your address!), and then see how rich and rewarding your new online experience can be. Give it a try for a few months—we'll be rolling out additional new features throughout... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
check the progress of games through open archways in the right field wall, the team offers budget-conscious fans “dynamic pricing” — a Baer innovation that makes tickets to less popular games available at reduced rates. Proving the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
check all three boxes. And you have to sell to the CEO, CFO, and CIO, as opposed to the VP of development or QA. The VPs have too much turf to protect. —Robert Finzi (MBA 1983) The real crux of the issue is managing those developers. If a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Milk, and Management As a Leadership Fellow for the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), John Kim (MBA ’08) never had the same kind of day twice. On one day, he might take a bumpy flight and a four-hour drive to check out a health center... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
it had adequate financial aresources to attain its diversity goals." * Are we practicing intergenerational equity? According to Herzlinger, a nonprofit should check if present and future generations will be able to benefit equally from... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry