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- 01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
and Fortune ranked her among the 50 most powerful women in American business. Business Week said you had "worked magic" at Banana Republic. What has your strategy been? I would love to take the credit for it, but I can't. The changes at... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
processing. Founders Patrick George, Gonçal Pagan, Javier Segovia (all MBA '02), and Benjamin Vigoda, a Ph.D. student at MIT, hope to produce faster, more powerful chips at a lower cost than those currently on the market. Three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
Alumni interested in leaders of the past century now have a powerful database at their fingertips, thanks to the School’s Leadership Initiative. The online resource offers a comprehensive overview of leadership in 20th-century American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Alumni Books The Crimson Emperor: A Tale of Imperial Byzantium by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) (Amazon Digital Services) In this romantic tale, a weapon-maker’s son becomes a deadly warrior and military commander, rising to View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
women was the power to control their own money and time. Koehn quoted Josephine Baker, a factory worker who, in 1847, wrote, "The money we earn comes promptly and comes to us. When we are finished we feel perfectly free until the time to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
Global Electronic Network will enable them - and all alumni - to use this powerful tool to stay connected after they graduate and to take advantage of the rich variety of services and information available... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
of his HBS training. "You become a problem solver." Perez de Leza has employed those transferrable skills in consulting, internet services, retail, and finally real estate, an industry in which he has been for nearly 20 years. As European... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
co-founded Constructeo, a maker of online collaboration tools for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, with fellow HBS alumnus Bertrand Dumazy (MBA 1999). The mixed success of the company's product offerings led to a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
"Navigating Success in Volatile Times" will be the theme of this year's HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) conference. The fourth annual event, to be held October 5–7 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, will provide insights into the strategies and View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
so business and leadership were really the world that I grew up in and I realized pretty early that business could be an incredibly powerful force for good and for general human flourishing, as well as a pretty View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
challenging? "By far the most enjoyable and rewarding part is building the BollyX community. I love working in the fitness industry—people in this industry are so positive, outgoing, and inspiring (it must be the exercising and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
opportunities, impact, and risks of GenAI. Several of these research efforts are highlighted below. Karim Lakhani Karim Lakhani Edward McFowland III Edward McFowland III How Will Generative AI Change Consulting? To test the capabilities of GPT-4—the LLM that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
through colloquia like this and through Executive Education programs. I think it’s critically important for HBS and for the country to grow leaders who are fluent in the language of technology and knowledgeable about the challenges facing leaders in those businesses.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
what’s out there to avoid any unpleasant surprises.” Besides similarity of name, search results incorporate information on industry sectors and trademark classes. “What trademark is about is the likelihood of confusion, so the system... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Dumbarton Oaks energy conference inspired by Energy Future. COURTESY ROBERT STOBAUGH An eighteen-year veteran of the energy and petrochemical industries who had left business to enter Harvard as a doctoral student in international... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even helping to start a pharmaceutical industry computer firm —... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
state-of-the-art e-learning technology. "HBSi is the magic that melds classroom teaching, long a hallmark of the HBS experience, with the creative use of the latest e-learning tools — combining and customizing them to offer a total... View Details