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- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
statistics told the full story, so we formed a Diversity Task Force to explore how we can expand the range of nonprofits we serve and to attract more diverse alumni volunteers for our projects and board.” Phillips says that while alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
DO (work to remain relevant), GO (travel), and HA (laugh) which inspired and guided her venture. Vitality Society quickly attracted nearly 2,000 members who are taking advantage of live Zoom fitness, wellness, and enrichment classes. In... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh in 2000. “They tried to invade my market with... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
liquid and effective," he says. "Mutual funds deepen the capital markets, and the capital markets lubricate our entire economy by allocating financial resources." For the consumer, the mutual fund combines a number of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion in fiscal year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to law enforcement? How much disclosure is legally required, and how much is appropriate ethically? How will disclosure affect the company’s stock price and prospects for attracting future business? For any executive, it’s a nightmare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes intense cyclicality that can result in turmoil and hardship for many. And we interfere with that cyclicality at our peril, as pent up economic forces will eventually be unleashed with far greater ferocity. Still, under capitalism, View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
world-class athletes. Successful marketing of the Olympics - which is essential for financing the Games - depends on the Olympic movement's continued integrity, reputation for excellence, and "goodwill." That inherent value, Frazier... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
these curious combinations may have seemed financially attractive at their inception, they were now so functionally ill-conceived that the individual parts were worth more than the agglomerated whole. The M&A; restructuring of those 1960s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local industries that depend on their talents. (For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
serves companies that are trying to attract and retain high-potential diverse talent. The challenge for women, Skeete Tatum says, is not one of motivation, capability, or track record, but rather of not knowing where or how to start the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
portfolio of businesses under the Ayala corporate umbrella? Ayala has historically aligned itself with the economic goals of the country. An emerging market faces many social and economic challenges, but finding a solution to those... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
on all levels, personally and professionally. Our theme, Emerge Stronger, really spoke to people. The speakers we attracted were just mind-blowing! I think we hit on something unique here by looking back on the year with positivity and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
Bridges Community Development Venture Funds, established in 2002 with roughly $35 million, half from the government and half from the private sector. The objective is to invest in businesses in Britain’s poorest areas while making a solid return to View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
professor Nancy F. Koehn in the opening keynote address at the Dynamic Women in Business Conference, held at HBS in late January. Organized by the HBS Women's Student Association, the eleventh annual event attracted a sold-out crowd of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna