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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
the Harvard Innovation Lab—depends on new gifts. The bottom line is that the School needs annual support to maintain its excellence. If we didn’t receive alumni gifts each year, we couldn’t fund emerging needs, ensure our faculty’s academic freedom, View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
physical intimidation, girls who were previously aspiring teachers or doctors become home-based entrepreneurs out of necessity. Kamila’s strength, persistence, and sense of duty to her family are heroically evident as she learns to sew in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
world of possibilities open up. An option is a fundamental security now - whether linked to interest rates, stock indexes, currencies, commodities, or real estate. But that's only part of it. There are other financial things that have the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
explains Nwuneli. AACE’s product line includes spices, spreads, sauces, and other foods grown in Nigeria. The company is one of two ventures managed by the couple’s investment firm, Sahel Capital. The other... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
University and then to HBS, eventually settling in Tokyo to begin his career, which has included founding GLOBIS Management School and GLOBIS Capital Partners, a VC firm. He hadn’t been back to Mito in 34 years. Hori was distressed by... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
A Case For Fellowships
that Harvard Business School attracts a wide-ranging group of men and women who share one common trait: a capacity for leadership. Our promise to our faculty and to every student is to deliver the most diverse class—on multiple... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn On March 23, recently appointed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) named Adam Selipsky (MBA 1993) head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a $50 billion business that contributes more than half of Amazon’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
the ground up, Jenrette's restorations have met the highest standards. "Most of the people associated with my projects have been working for me for twenty years or more," he notes. "They're in their View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
at the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP). “For me, the AMP was about taking a pit stop on my journey to becoming a transformational leader, and my time in Boston helped me achieve... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
General Electric, the world's most valuable company and the firm where he has spent his entire career, Immelt good-naturedly dealt with the barrage of attention that accompanied his media coronation. "I've never measured my self-worth by... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
really just a means to help me form and develop my ideas. The first month, I sent it to 20 or 30 friends. That’s the only marketing I ever did for it.” Since then, the Business of Fashion has grown steadily... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
either because they are giving a speech at HBS, or because you emailed them and they accepted your invitation to have coffee." Who are your business role models? "When I look to the View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
sociology, were married. While at RCA, Djelic had heard from colleagues about Harvard's first-rate schools in both business and public administration and decided to enroll in the joint MBA/MPA Program. “My time at HBS was a wonderful... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
are markets where there is not necessarily intrinsic value to the products themselves.” “These are markets where there is not necessarily intrinsic value to the products themselves.” With that kind of attention, some market safeguards can kick in. Big art galleries... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many companies preach and practice corporate social responsibility, but their efforts often lack an overall strategy that dilutes their effectiveness.... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- News
Face Value
skincare products initially deemed too “niche” and “exotic” by retailers; in 2019 Unilever acquired the company for a reported $500 million. Tsai stepped down as CEO after being asked to do so, but was recently asked to return; that... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Mentorship has been an ongoing theme and concern for Lack, whether in the business or nonprofit sector. After graduation, she worked at McKinsey in its New York and Washington, DC, offices for four years.... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia