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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Alameda at the corner of 33rd Street. "That neighborhood?" he queries in a thick Russian accent. "Not good." Well outside the boundary of Inner Harbor tourist attractions, the northeast Baltimore district in question admittedly shares the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
applications and used automated processing to get cash out quickly. By the program’s second round, companies such as Square, Kabbage, PayPal, and Intuit became approved PPP lenders and handled a significant share of PPP loans. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
from your struggles, it can still be hard to share those publicly. Nevertheless, we set up on Spangler lawn at Spring Reunions and asked a few brave souls to recount some of their greatest challenges and tell us what they learned from... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
shared his idea. Especially supportive was a young, then untenured professor of information technology, James Cash. "Jim told me, 'Anything you do to improve the computer's human interface has got to be good,' " Bricklin recalls. By the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
cross-cultural learning aspect to it that you can’t duplicate in the classroom, which is very much a part of being a global business school. That doesn’t mean putting a U.S.-born student in the Paris office of Goldman Sachs. It’s... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
plan. A key component of the REP is the hiring of a chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO) to advance many aspects of the plan. How is the search proceeding? We’ve narrowed the field to several terrific candidates and will have the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
strategy because strategies typically change over time, even for the best entrepreneurial teams. We also tend to be investors that focus very heavily on market share and growth. A typical business that we would like to see is one where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) is the founder of the Stability Network, which aims to ease the stigma of mental illness. They hope to achieve this by having professionals share... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
made for great teaching moments and unanticipated creativity and fun,” says Mallory, who also served as a team consultant. “For instance, after a considerable period of anemic sales of their product (neon rubber wrist bands), the Chief Marketing View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
all his fault. Well, after several complaints from the customers, other staff members, I began to share with my father that I thought this manager was not doing his job. And one Friday afternoon I walked into my father's View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
adds, "was to catch up with my classmates and share once again the spirit of our Section C." William G. Messenger (MBA '88) Drawn to a religious life as an Episcopal minister after launching a successful career in the high-tech industry,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical trials will receive FDA approval. Eric Kimble (MBA 1994), chief commercial View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
see, or rather what they will experience, will change as the technology evolves. There’s an anecdote IBMers share at Watson’s gleaming new headquarters on Astor Place in the East Village. One day, a boy named Kevin walked into his... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers