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- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
HBS professor advised me to begin my project by asking companies to pay smoodi to come to their offices and prepare customized smoothies for the employees. The idea was that if I couldn’t gain money this way, a machine would never work.... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 29 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business
seven semesters and pursue my core passion to improve cosmetic safety. Where did you work before coming to HBS?I spent the two years before HBS working for S.W. Basics, a truly all-natural skincare company based in Brooklyn that... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
Geography – the regions in which you have worked – can also play an important part. "Do you have experience in areas the company is expanding into? If, for example, you spent your career in the US, but now live in the EU, your insights... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
company that reflects their personal values, U2 also provides a model. "Any CEO who thinks his or her job is primarily about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past," Koehn says. "The game of what... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
points do not offer comfort to those who experience firsthand the wide and growing inequality in how the value created by businesses is shared with society. Simply put, many people view the capitalist system in deep need of repair. As... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Founder or Chief Executive Officer of a U.S.-based company for at least five years between 1900 and 2000. As such, any CEO whose tenure began after 1996 was excluded from this survey. For the earlier decades of the twentieth century, we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Max Wibaux
joining a consumer-products-focused private equity firm in a role in which he can "bring together all the elements HBS teaches us: operations, strategy, the inner workings of financing, and how to avoid investment pitfalls and traps. I want to add View Details
Keywords: CPG
- Profile
Inessa Lurye
studies, "have continued to be critical"—especially because Inessa has been immersed, since graduation, in startups. "I've seen lots up ups and downs; I've seen how the challenges change at different stages of the life cycle. It's cemented for me the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
from throughout their first year to on-site, customer-related projects with companies around the world. Before their trip, Franklin’s six-person team tested their research methodology in interviews with Boston-area teens and parents.... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
education would seem to be [the need] to consider how freely available assets might support and increase the value of those nondurable, non-replicable assets a company might possess." Mark Hammer's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
ecologically friendly aquaculture and agriculture, and the sale of carbon offsets, among others. Profit to investors comes from realizing all of the value contained in the conserved land. Adams has already opened a conservation and... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
feature, where you can filter for companies founded or led by Hispanic/Latine individuals. Explore Mintel's various reports: Hispanics and Symbols of Identity - US - 2024 Marketing to Hispanic Gen Zs - US - 2024 Marketing to Hispanic Moms... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like an internal venture capital firm. Xerox would exploit Adams's skills in obtaining View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
in terms of the companies' long-term commitment to the programs and the way they reflected the companies' values as part of everything they do," Kanter notes. "The resources and number of people involved, including the CEOs, were... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
influence the companies being rated. We focus on corporate environmental ratings, the primary purpose of which is to help investors select "socially responsible" and avoid "socially irresponsible" companies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
environment, and that extends to the post-MBA landscape. I am amazed by not only the assistance from MBA Support Services and Career & Professional Development, but also by the encouragement from the companies that visit campus. As a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
stakeholders detailed results and improve the level of dialogue and engagement with them. Senior Lecturer Eccles and his coauthor show how integrated reporting adds value to a company and contributes to a... View Details