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- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
2:00 that afternoon, closed, worked all night to make more food, and sold out again the next day.” The business grew 8 percent each month for the first fifteen months. For a while, Garner served as chief pasta maker, accountant, and general business View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
fastest-growing urban businesses. This year, the ICIC and the School's Executive Education Owner-Managed Programs will offer a special one-week general management seminar for the IC 100 CEOs. "If we can get companies like these growing in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
chief made the projects sound simple enough - nothing that Singaporean efficiency could not solve. Fellow panelist William Liley, managing director of Asian Infrastructure Fund Advisers Ltd., which manages... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The flight deck had taken a beating from takeoffs and landings and needed to be resurfaced. Being a supply officer is like managing a small city. At the Naval Academy I was intrigued by the glamour of being a pilot or a ship driver, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
a “gift from the government,” but rather an asset with a strong future value that brought neighbors together and gave strength to families where so much had been lost. This gift of the first calf was incredibly significant. A cow, it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
with individuals from Kraft, Procter & Gamble, or almost any name-brand consumer goods company you’d care to name. Aside from our 99ers, these long-term relationships are probably our most valuable asset that is not on our balance sheet.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
by saying, ‘Jack is the former chairman of Vanguard, a $4 trillion enterprise.’ I say, ‘No, it’s a 15,000-people enterprise, serving 25 million people.’ The assets are the outcome, not the goal.” Home Equity “I went door-to-door in the... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
lead to the chapel’s revitalization, calling on help from a local lawyer, Steve Kaplan, and reaching out to Michael Noonan, a senior planning manager with Hennepin County. He hadn’t spent much time in North Minneapolis, but knew there was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
READ MORE An Orchestral Startup—Richard J. Lim (HBS'98), cofounder of Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra Managing a Master—Edward C. Arrendell (MBA'80) with Wynton Marsalis, "an unbeatable combination." Guitar Hero—Henry E. Juszkiewicz (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new growth engine; and taking... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
destruction." Sharing the views of most of the industry, my septuagenarian grandfather was ill-prepared for the new era. The "how," though, was a question that had bothered me for years: How had the treasurer managed to do it? While the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
challenges. When I joined BlackRock in 2015 to launch their impact investing platform, it involved taking my experience from the nonprofit side and thinking about how to measure social outcomes and drop that into an asset View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
sort of situation, I really was able to see who is going to be up to the task, and whose head just wasn't going to be in the game. And some of them just weren't ready. They weren't ready to commit, they just weren't there mentally, they were not going to be an View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
activity in a way by which that goal can be realized. You’ll see much more in this arena in the new year. Second, I see many opportunities to leverage the many digital assets we have built and to think about how we might use the case... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity in Massachusetts. Among its core leadership are Greg Shell (MBA... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance