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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Fertility, a company that is developing medical options to prolong women’s fertility, primarily by freezing viable eggs and storing them for later use. While some may feel uncomfortable with the idea, Jones sees her work as a way to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis putt-putt by, pausing occasionally to... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
twist. General Motors once anchored New Center. Now, with the development of the light-rail just blocks away, there’s a possible future where even Detroit could become less dependent on cars. National... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
2002 Alumni Achievement Awards Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68) Chairman, President, and CEO, Merck & Co. Since June 1994, when Gilmartin became its president and CEO, Merck has launched seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from $15... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
overbake nor underbake — both fatal to the bakery business. But when she opened her second bakery in 1999, she suddenly realized how hard the business could be. The new House of Bread was in Santa Cruz, three hours away. “It had better... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
in New York, working with inner-city at-risk youth. He saw a presentation by then-NFTE president Steve Mariotti and was impressed by the organization’s practical curriculum for teaching entrepreneurship. Bhargava and his wife, Aruna, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
similar challenges. “I want to succeed in business and become a philanthropist so that I can help others in the same way,” she says. Until then, she is already having an impact as a role model for peers in her hometown of Pleasantville, View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
forth." As it happens, a large grocery store chain recently moved into the neighborhood Crockett studied, and he hopes eventually to return to Milwaukee to document the impact the new facility is having on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
their own brand names. The retail business - selling individual servings from refrigerators with our logos in delis and grocery stores - is a totally new challenge." Cooking up delicious recipes is only the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
examples of businesses that use Feng shui. Two high-profile users are the Hong Kong Bank, the largest and most successful bank in Hong Kong, and the Marks & Spencer stores, probably the most successful supermarket and department store... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic Silbert has followed her parents’ example of helping others,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Raiser (MBA 1990), known on the “playa” as CocoCabana, serves as treasurer of the organization, in addition to working at her family’s real estate business. “It feels like being the grown-up at a kid’s party,” says Raiser, who just published a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
open-standards, fertile software platform from which thousands of novel applications will bloom." While many of those new applications will benefit consumers, the authors raise concerns that the technology might exacerbate the "Big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to retail maven, with 70-plus stores... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
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THE DIGITAL BULLETIN For a few years now, we've been asking how you like to read your Bulletin, and unsurprisingly, many of you have told us you'd love to have a tablet edition. We've listened to your comments and are excited to announce that the View Details