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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
listen to podcasts detailing their impact, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE For more than 50 years, Harvard Business School has recognized a number of outstanding individuals by conferring on them its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
increasing number of red flags, he had to consider not only his US employer and his HBS position, but also his local client, his client's employees and their families, customers throughout the region, and all the suppliers for the client's View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
phase along with Stanford Business School professor Charles O'Reilly. The case method is the primary learning tool; overall, cases used in EDP range from an examination of General Electric CEO Jack Welch's management style, to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
Internet commerce isn't usually associated with chicken feed, but in one country at least, that may be changing. The Dow Jones International News recently highlighted the surge of new Web sites that are geared toward agriculture in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and pedestrians. The construction of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
acknowledged place in the business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. “Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat,” sings Georges Seurat in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
training. Finally, Three Chimneys manages the breeding rights for eight stallions, which Clay cites as the segment of his business with the highest profile and greatest returns. Smarty Jones, winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
weekend series.” OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW: As demolition of the old Busch Stadium took place in November 2005, seats were park next door. The Cardinals played the season home opener in the new Busch Stadium on April 10, 2006, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups and downs of refining their... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very high likelihood of landing somewhere in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
and utility companies like Pacific Gas & Electric agreeing to accelerate deployment of charging stations along the routes. At some point, says Rich, “people will want to be in the business of creating charging stations and solutions, much... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Terry Finley: I used to go to the race track after school with my father on a regular basis, and all my brothers and sisters—actually four brothers are in the construction business. They're all in the cement mason business, and in the unions. I really kind of just saw... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of... View Details