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- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
launched the Robin Hood Army while working for a company called Zomato, India’s largest food-delivery app. His job was to set up Zomato in international markets, live in the countries for six to nine months at a time, and establish local... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Steve Jobs were collectively worth $1.5 trillion and heading companies that would change entirely how we work, play, and live our lives. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015 With Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Slam Dunk
the 17 million American males who play basketball and have access to the Net -- you know, the electronic one. As its slogan suggests, the company is serious about its game: "If basketball is your religion, HoopsTV.com is your church."... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
they lead.” Hyman expressed some optimism on that front, saying she thinks the startup culture will evolve over the next decade, as more women find success. And she is helping to create that change. Last year, Hyman launched the Rent the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
someone who thinks a high percentage of managers steal from their companies is more likely to do so himself—and you ask the same question in a variety of ways. The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab also collects a second level of data on the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
testing of content, technology, and facilities. Education’s work is never done, so creating a culture of continual improvement is vital. “Making progress and never standing still is a hallmark of a healthy society and healthy schools, and... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
company in Atlanta, Georgia called ADDO. It’s a leadership consulting firm. We partnered with Chick-fil-A to create one of the nation’s largest programs, called Chick-fil-A Leader Academy, which teaches next-generation leaders how to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
at Time Warner, who said the satisfaction she gets from helping deserving local organizations makes her “the luckiest girl in the world.” In 2006, Time Warner gave a total of $50 million to support arts and education in New York City, and it is Quiroz that has “put... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
ARIAS-KING: Planting pine trees to promote social change. Photo Courtesy of Fredo Arias-King Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996) President of Texas's T&R Chemicals, is aware that—outside of his industry—people aren't necessarily cognizant of the historical and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, she’d taught Harvard’s leadership course during the 1990s, but had begun to suspect that the visionary model of leadership on which it was based wasn’t ideal for creating a View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
what I’m doing today, but the culture at Northwest Cascade really suits me. We are a company that is focused on human waste. Among other things, we install septic systems and sewer lines, lease portable... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
about does it make people happier, more successful? Does it make companies have greater retention, better recruiting? We need to get to the evidence in order to actually change the culture around this, to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In her new book Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, HBS professor Rosabeth... View Details