Young Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing

the time a partner at the Athens-based Ulysses Commission Trading Company, an agency company representing foreign manufacturers in the Greek market, watched those dramatic days in late 1989 with mixed feelings. "I knew that the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Addressing The Financial Security Gap

offering guaranteed lifetime income through workplace retirement plans. As Ackerley explains, many American workers used to have defined benefit plans, or pensions, that ensured a steady stream of income in retirement. Some companies and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Sep 2021
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Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

In this video, Startup Factory Ethiopia cofounder Thomas Ferede (MBA 2009) explains the mission of his organization—and how the HBS network has helped further its goals. “So Startup Factory Ethiopia is a venture builder. We wanted to create inspirational View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Platform) Set in the late sixties, this romantic novel is about love, longing, and coming of age. It follows the lives of three main protagonists—a young man traveling in Europe and behind the Iron Curtain, a View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

programs has grown by 25 percent to 330 participants. Looking back over the past decade, Childress detects a growing interest among young alums in starting or joining an organization dedicated to social change. “The attitude is that this... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2008
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Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles

marriage. Communication and compromise is key. Don’t take for granted that just because the buyer is young they don’t know what they are talking about or that it will be an easy sell. Most young buyers are... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2001
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K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience

“With my corporate start-up experience, I know what it takes to build a company up from zero,” Chia explains. “A lot of young entrepreneurs, particularly in Asia, are quite inexperienced, and you literally... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Hewlitt-Packard; Apple; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Oct 1996
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No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This insight is at the heart of Syrg,... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Books

of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 2003
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Flex Time

Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

for a company for a couple of years. It’s then that many of them decide to go on to graduate school,” Shibayama says. “In Japan, many of the students decide their position for life as an undergraduate.” He prefers the American path, he... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

Over the years Jones watched as Culture Shift honored people like Peter Lewis (MBA 1985), managing partner at Wentworth Partners; Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of McAfee; Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO at TaskRabbit; and, most recently, Deidre... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Apr 2002
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Dot-Mom

For a time, iVillage.com and its CEO, Candice Carpenter Olson (MBA '83), were on top of the world. The Web site was wildly popular with both women and Wall Street; by 1999, the company was worth more than $2 billion. Then came the dot-com... View Details

Keywords: iVillage; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

18 Oct 2016
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China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Benaree Wiley

affairs. Working with area companies and institutions, The Partnership facilitates interactions among current and emerging leaders and provides opportunities for individuals to share their knowledge and skills to bring about change in the... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Mar 2016
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Reinventing the Wheel

the scientists and researchers in the young company asked Cardozo if he would like to join the team as CEO in early 2014. The process works like this: End-of-life tires are collected at the Black Bear plant,... View Details