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01 Jun 2025
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For the Records

morning in February, Kelleher is in Waterloo mode. She scores a downtown parking space and walks over to Austin City Hall with the distinct sound of purpose that cowboy boots bestow. Her meeting is at 9:30—but first she’ll need coffee. She’s just back from a long... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Jeff Wilson; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

Image by Greg Betza Alison Rapaport (MBA 2018) has always been passionate about sports, both as a spectator and a participant. “I love being part of a team and I’m super competitive, so I like to win,” she laughs. Rapaport grew up in Los... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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Jeffrey Deitch: Art Entrepreneur

By: Henry McGee, Rohit Deshpandé and Sarah Gulick

Jeffrey Deitch is an influential gallery owner and art entrepreneur. An HBS alumnus generally credited with developing the field of bank art advisory and financing services, Deitch has had a storied career in both the commercial and non-profit art world. Wrestling with... View Details

Keywords: Cultural Entrepreneurship; Arts; Personal Development and Career; Fine Arts Industry; New York (city, NY); Los Angeles

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25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation

campus for all alumni in the Greater Boston region on April 26, followed by events in San Francisco and Los Angeles in June. "This campaign gives us new opportunities to connect with our alumni," Hess noted.... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled

Angeles to her native St. Louis. Granted Sunday visitation rights, his father only made the 1,800-mile trip twice. And on the second visit, his father kidnapped him, driving him back to Los Angeles. The... View Details

June 2020
Teaching Note

The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching note serves as a supplement to “The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?” HBS 420-025. View Details

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18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

coffee shop in Los Angeles in 2014 called Dumb Starbucks. Write Deighton and Kornfeld: "The stunt's function as promotion for the show was eventually deduced by journalists and the public. The delayed reveal... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

cost of recent subway projects in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.), subways can be tough medicine. And cost aside, subways are no panacea—disruptive construction, limited residential connections, and for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992,... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

Lee and Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee are pleased at the progress that KCON, a Korean-oriented music and cultural convention, has made since its debut in Los Angeles (LA) in 2012. In the years since 2012, the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

will emerge. 2. Listen All The Time Science writer Malcolm Gladwell interviewed two Los Angeles policemen who staked their own lives on their ability to read other people's intentions. One of the officers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm in the Los Angeles area. From... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

first overnight I did, I pedaled my bike 10 miles and set up my tent, just to see what it was like. Then I did a three-day tour, then a three-week tour, and eventually I decided it’d be cool to start in New York City, ride to St. Louis, and then take Route 66 all the... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Los Angeles Times and Univision Noticias , contributing to award-winning projects. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Ana holds master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

tools and adapting them to their own contexts. We're really transforming their thinking." Feedback from PELP participants supports that assessment. For istance, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete? Harvard Business School Case 307-086 In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los View Details