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- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
success takes yrs.” Some alumni offered advice, like Jeremy Valeda (PLDA 15, 2013), who said, “I think Pokemon GO needs to leverage their geocaching service with local commerce to monetize the experience.” Cimarron Buser (MBA 1988)... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy by John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz (HBS Press) Professor Quelch and Research Associate Jocz demonstrate marketing's critical role in the growth and governance of societies and how good... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
to performance. In the classic hierarchical career bargain, people would join a company or government service with ambition and energy, and they would overperform and be undercompensated for it. But as they... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
likely change and then all of us will be thinking about water a lot. Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) knows that, and the company she founded, Artemis Water Strategy, is dedicated to finding technologies for companies and governments around the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
The report recommended fast and frequent shuttle service between Cambridge, Allston, and the Longwood Medical Center. It also suggested several transportation options, including new through streets, a new pedestrian bridge across the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center for the Environment, argued... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
different. In China, the government typically is the entrepreneur. You cannot be an entrepreneur without also being part of the Communist Party, whereas in India, entrepreneurship is entirely in the private sector, far away from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
degradation; failure of the rule of law; failures of education and public health; state capitalism; radical movements and terrorism; and pandemics. But the business leaders were also disturbed by an 11th disrupter: the inadequacy of existing View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. Incentives must be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Rebecca Henderson, the Business and Environment Initiative is designed “to deepen our collective understanding of the environmental challenges confronting business leaders and to help them design effective solutions,” explains Reinhardt. “Creating jobs and View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
William Sahlman, one of Rogers' mentors, has written a case about the purchase.) In 1991, they purchased a second lampshade company and then, two years later, a retail store. "I found I liked doing the deals more than running the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
of Pinball, pictured at far right. The team, in collaboration with the Design Continuum and the MIT Media Lab, created a system for fashion retail stores that utilizes weight-sensitive floor tiles in order to know where shoppers are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Philippines Outreach
and elegance,” according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer (December 4, 2011). Bradley is well known in the nation’s capital for his tasteful A-list gatherings featuring US politicians, foreign dignitaries, government officials, and other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power... View Details