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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when she realized that the View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Presented with thirteen job offers in 1978, Ann S. Moore accepted the one in the industry she knew she wanted to be in — magazine publishing. It also happened to be the one offering the lowest salary. “People were astounded with the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
by the 1980s, that number had fallen to 18, and by 2015, it was just four. “Vaccines went out of fashion,” says HBS professor Gary Pisano, who studies the intersection of business and science. “There was a sense among investors that they were boring.” (Pisano View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn’t the case. Entrepreneurship is... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
only worked in Boston, it was an eye-opening experience," Blumkin recalls. "Every day, we discussed a case in a different industry." Her studies led to a career in marketing, first at big companies such as American Express and Walt Disney, and later through View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and their son in Hoboken,New Jersey;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
traffic). New energy-efficiency laws focus on buildings, which produce about 75 percent of the city’s carbon emissions. From his vantage point as VP for sustainability consulting at Groom Energy Solutions in Salem, Massachusetts, Paul... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
trying to go and be fluid enough to push various buttons along the way to get there.” As far afield and varied as those experiences were, each one brought Mawilmada a step closer to coming home. The war had just ended when he returned to Sri Lanka in late 2009 to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans, that’s no longer true. Financial... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the marketing field. I liked working in... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major corporations, and leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
morning of September 11. Prior to joining CSFB earlier this year, Glick was a senior partner at Greenwich Associates, where he led the global fixed income, foreign exchange, and derivatives consulting practice. He was a graduate of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
favorite line in Spotlight. “A good case presents a set of facts and pushes the reader to ask certain questions. That’s what I want to do too.” Advancing a career in any industry requires some entrepreneurial verve, but that’s especially... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
member, ed tech veteran, and current cofounder and managing partner of Ethical Ventures, a management consultancy dedicated to social enterprises. In its first month, the Business for Racial Equity Pledge was signed by more than 1,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
the area. Marietta also had an ideal mix of skills and experience. In addition to launching Giant Otter at HGSE, he founded a consultancy that helped schools across the country improve labor, management, and community relations; so he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
time, Enan asked Habib out for coffee whenever she came back to Cairo. Habib was consulting after exiting Fawry—a vocation Enan doubted was a good fit. She continued to check in with her. "Magda kept joking, saying, ‘What is it? What do... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance