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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
partner. In what proved to be a fortuitous stroke, Cohen then recruited Alan Patricof, a pioneering venture capitalist based in New York, to join the partnership. Under Patricof’s influence, the firm shifted focus from advising to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Press) Drawing from residents’ reminiscences, newspaper accounts, company newsletters and histories, and local records, Carlson looks at towns in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and the impact that companies have had on them. Restructuring for Growth by John C.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
Jet.com, and then, when Walmart acquired the young company, as vice president and general manager of the retail giant’s health and beauty e-commerce business. In that role, he saw the potential for the beauty category to be a pioneer of omni-channel sales. Consumers... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
Adidas-sponsored France soundly thrashed Nike-sponsored Brazil 3-0 in the championship game. "There's an adrenaline rush when an Adidas-equipped team beats one that's wearing the other guy's product," Louis-Dreyfus acknowledges. "And why not? We want to win."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
disasters. Photo courtesy Gregg Bemis Mysteries of the Deep Gregg Bemis Jr. (MBA ’54) Age: 76 Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico Gregg Bemis walked out the door of his last corporate job in 1979, at the age of 51. “It became readily apparent that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
Group chairman Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), and Shahnaz Herbals founder and CEO Shahnaz Husain. The Nalli story Past Chairman Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti on his introduction to the family sari business, started by his grandfather in Madras (now known as Chennai) in 1928: “From... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
jeans, for instance, will get more eyes on social media. For brands like red-carpet favorite Marchesa, it’s a useful new tool in that never-ending quest to predict what consumers want next week, next month,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
Fantastic Photos The photo galleries from Iraq and Afghanistan on the Bulletin Web site are fantastic. They portray both the beauty and the ugliness of these countries and put a familiar face on those who serve us during this war. Thank... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious nonprofit with the dual aims of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
Clubs News Clubs News Building Bridges, One Meal at a Time Like most HBS alumni clubs, the HBS Club of Toronto is always on the lookout for new ways to engage its members to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
New York. “Our goal was to use the encounters with works of art to help students become more aware of how their emotional responses and past experiences can color their interpretation of a complex... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. What’s to Be Done about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Research Brief: Pocket Change
that is good news for democracy in the United States.” Whereas small donors were previously on the margins of being able to affect the electoral process, technology now allows contributors to easily “donate repeatedly to the same... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
“Invigorating” is the word Marne Levine (MBA 2005) uses to describe her work at Facebook. As vice president of global partnerships and business development, a role she took on in February, Levine oversees a broad swath of the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
Clubs News Clubs News A team from HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hit the road in March with a goal of bringing career education and coaching services to alumni in 27 cities in the U.S. and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley