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- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Sharpe (OPM 58, 2022): My name is Ken Sharpe. I'm from Zimbabwe and I did OPM 58. My partner sent me Who Not How by Dan Sullivan, and he also wrote 10x Is Easier Than 2x. It’s life-changing. So he runs Strategic Coach and I just came back... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
years after Grossman’s article, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter coauthored a groundbreaking November–December 1999 article titled “Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value.” The authors made the case that foundations devoted too little... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
resources are limited, and there are more than enough attractive ways to use them - whether for tactical investment in product quality or strategic investments in new market... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
specifically, the marketing insight that customers care much more about product benefits than they do about product attributes, is very relevant as we talk about what we do and what we are learning. This insight also informs my strategic... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
a decent profit decently. Venture philanthropy, which applies principles of venture investing to social enterprises, has become a hot topic lately. Is venture philanthropy a good idea? The first generation of venture philanthropy had its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
act of innovating — though it may well appear to be the right thing to do — can kill a company. Innovation, it seems, is not simply a reactive or random activity on the path to growth, but a strategic weapon. Wielded correctly, it can put... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
performance, and strategize your growth plan. As a young company, this is valuable. It wasn’t until we were ‘in the tank’ that it all felt real, and absolutely nothing beats the feeling of the first Shark putting in an offer. Smith: “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
creating a strategic plan to address the crisis, with the Department of Public Health leading the effort. A two-day meeting to gather information from stakeholders, including state legislators and public health officials, kick-started the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
serve on a team that consolidated and restructured student-run concessions. After graduation, Lyon intends to keep a hand in Uncle Dave's Kitchen as a member of the company's board while remaining in the Boston area as a strategic planner... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
interaction—enthusiastic gamers, a largely oblivious and skeptical public, and occasionally supportive video game publishers who saw marketing opportunities, but didn’t dream bigger. It wasn’t until the 1998 release of StarCraft, a game of warring alien factions with a... 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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
direction. "For the first three months," Charron continues, "I did nothing but listen. I had to listen to figure out what the hell was going on. All I did was go around and meet people — hundreds of people inside and outside the company, in the View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry