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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
to be paid. Hodgson, who is president and CEO of the parent company and a former entrepreneur-in-residence at HBS, sat down with the Bulletin to talk about how these unlikely entrepreneurs used their differences to their advantage, a process they describe in their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
difference in our world." CURRENT READING The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman As president of New York City-based Women's World Banking (WWB), Nancy Barry has changed the lives of millions of poor women and their families around the... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
we just need to dust them off and show them in a new light to our consumers.” Just a few miles from its corporate headquarters, in a big hangar-like facility that lacks any kind of identifiable signage, McDonald’s is preparing for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
provides the infrastructure (or"middleware") that makes e-commerce work across disparate computer systems. His meaning, however, is just the opposite.. "The concept of e-business will disappear because every business will be an e-business," Ranadivé explains. "Physical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
in the hearts of consumers more quickly than camcorders, personal computers, or cell phones. In the Palm, Dubinsky and her colleagues created a sleek, portable tool that can be “synced” with a desktop computer to store information such as... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) is a journalist and author of two New York Times best selling books. She was a political reporter and a TV producer in DC before coming to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business history shows that if the desire... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
as: Why are Indians getting more religious but also more consumption-driven? How did a Chennai-based department store start the New Year’s sale phenomenon? Are Muslims more open-minded shoppers? Why do... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
issue was widespread, Lerner and Holder founded OnRamp to help SaaS companies guide their customers through the implementation journey. Lerner refined the concept at HBS (and was a runner-up in the New Venture Competition) and has been... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
in a small, confined space we want to be there too. Trash cans, diaper pails, litter boxes, you name it. Short term, we want to build our retail presence. Look for us in select Target stores this April!” What have been the most enjoyable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
network. HBS’s 87,000-plus alumni serve as change makers and an important resource for students. Early in the pandemic, the CPD team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
inheritance to purchase the Wall Drug Store in 1931, it was just that: a drug store. At the height of the Great Depression, in a part of the country sometimes described as “the geographic center of nowhere,” the family struggled to make... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
private sector. She'd been living in New York City when she started the job, enjoying all the city has to offer, but had moved back to Egypt to get a ground-level view of the Fund's work. I didn't talk to Enan again until the summer of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Confederacy Nineteen ninety-six was only a few days old when the New York Times ran the headline "'95 the Hottest Year on Record." The story discussed mounting scientific evidence of global warming, a potentially catastrophic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book pulls together leading-edge insights from some of the world's best researchers about how organizational change in general—and sustainable change in particular—can be most... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, American Express, and Uber extending work-from-home policies well into 2021 and beyond, the reality of remote work is here to stay. Touching on issues of trust, productivity, and digital tools for connection and collaboration, Remote Work... View Details