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- 24 Apr 2014
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Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
convenient online platform. “I’d love to create the official fitness platform for the Lean In generation, people want to stay active but have very little time,” says Kumar. In just her first two months of operation, with almost no... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Internet commerce is the emergence of the electronic wallet. In its simplest form, the electronic wallet (a.k.a. the digital wallet or e-wallet) is a digital file that can be downloaded onto the consumer's desktop. When it is time to conduct business View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
sprints. The alumni and practitioners joined virtually, from what Professor Karim R. Lakhani has taken to calling “the universe deck.” In the classroom and in the online chat for this short intensive program (SIP), participants debated... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with shop owners, and we empower our merchants to build... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf explains that the company's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
fundamental changes that are happening to business as a result of the Internet, digital communications, and ubiquitous connectivity. From building online business models, to formulating digital strategies, to competing in the uncertain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Join in the Centennial
join a virtual “Conversation” with HBS faculty members about cutting-edge business topics and be able to read alumni comments online — or post your own. Or learn about the monthly “Virtual Lunch” conference call discussions led by HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
a relationship with America Online (AOL) that allowed alumni to have faster access to HBS and other alumni through an online alumni directory, alumni bulletin boards, HBS message centers, special-interest... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA 2008 Co-founder and CEO PIXIE curated View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
José Royo leaves footprints nearly everywhere he goes. A native of Spain, Royo was studying for his Ph.D. in East Asian studies at Harvard when he applied for a support job in information technology at the Business School in 1990. With... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
Above: photo by Getty/Bloomberg Nobody, says Kate Gulliver (MBA 2009), chooses to work somewhere just because they offer a free lunch. “I think people care far more about being excited about the content of the work they’re doing,” says Gulliver, the global head of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized radio service with 65 million... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Leaning in for a more equitable world
included roles as vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and as chief of staff to US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
graduate and intern, to review more than a hundred LinkedIn profiles, helping former servicemen and women revise their online presence for optimal career advantage. “Technically, we made over a hundred or so profiles, but each person we... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
national business reporter for the Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Times. In 1986, largely because of the difficulty of raising a young daughter while coping with journalism's demanding hours, Bry accepted an offer to run the newly founded CONNECT Program in View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Care
MARCELO: "So much of the leadership is helping other people and being selfless." Frustrated by her inability to find high-quality care for her children, Sheila Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998/JD 1999), a former consultant and executive at Upromise, founded Care.com in 2006.... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy
HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
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A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
Atlantic Philanthropies, who is among the world’s most generous philanthropists. The experience left Feerick asking, “What if I gave the best years of my life to building something with enormous social impact?” Feerick has answered that question with Alison, the... View Details
Keywords: April White