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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
presentation based on his book, Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success, and Professor Weiss presented a session based on his book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
Kennedy Main article: Where Innovation Rules As a kid, Joe Kennedy (MBA 1985) got hooked early on the magic of radio, listening in bed at night to a crystal set he had built himself. Radio returned to his life in 2004 when—after an 11-year stint in View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
friends and family while hanging out in a VR living room, to attending a concert with hundreds of people from around the world, to just playing games together.” Can you tell us about your role as head of product marketing for AR/VR... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
confident enough to give praise. MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech startup in this 2018 HBS case study (purchase required) MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro The idea for the Portland, Oregon–based digital media startup News Bling was born out of the late-night hours of November 8, 2016, when Nupur Patel (MBA 2017) rubbed the fog of... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
and with investors from across Africa. He believes those connections could be the key to the program’s success. “Entrepreneurship is not just about capital; it is capital plus X. That ‘X’ is the mentoring and training, and it is the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and food companies are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to hold all of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
their predecessors (Intel, Apple, and Oracle, to name a few), in the last fifteen years, Valley startups such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Yahoo!, and Adobe have changed the way the world works, thinks, plays, communicates, and does... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
is targeting seniors, when 90 percent of today's marketing spend is aimed at people under 50. And he's hedging his bets on something we all think seniors run from—namely, technology. It all came together in 2012, when Johnston and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
markets are going to bear. That’s the core challenge. Can we find solutions that can scale quickly enough to start allowing us to make some headway against CO2 emissions and do it at a cost point that’s going to work in the marketplace?... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
entrepreneurs precisely because I know the risks. I think you should not do it precipitously. There's an aphorism in our industry that CEO is the new analyst, because a lot of young people want to be startup CEOs as opposed to taking... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
SmartPak to offer additional horse and dog products, with continued focus on a high level of customer service. “On the equine side, we have a great bunch of customers who are totally passionate about their sport — and it’s a very gear-oriented sport,” notes Gisholt.... View Details