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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
operations in 2009, SHE, with a staff of 10 and aiming to reach 3,000 girls this year, has developed a franchise model to manufacture and distribute low-cost, eco-friendly menstrual pads by sourcing local, inexpensive raw materials (e.g., banana fibers) and leveraging... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
use digital tools to take the friction out of bringing together a diverse set of people to co-create and iterate. That became OpenIDEO. We now have a couple hundred thousand people collaborating online for the social good. Most businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
couples who have everything. Marcus, who died last January at 96, was fond of saying, "I have the simplest taste: I am always satisfied with the best," the New York Times (January 23, 2002) recalled. After HBS, Marcus took that philosophy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
really intriguing,” Amabile continues. “Frans found that highly creative individuals often have degrees in widely disparate disciplines, were raised in two or more cultures or countries, or have work experience in a couple of unrelated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Turning teddy bears into art On a trip to London in the 1980s, John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) and his wife snapped a picture of two teddy bears posed near a Buckingham Palace guard. The normally staid guard bowed to the bears, and the couple... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
—Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013) I will give the industry some credit and say that it has come around in the last couple of years. I launched RelayRides in the fall of my first semester at HBS, and it took me a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
consistent donors to the HBS Fund for many years and first gave out of gratitude for the benefits Ken received, and later to help preserve the School’s excellence. “I wanted to do what I could to help HBS remain a premier business school,” he explains. In the past... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
help others develop,” explains Hesham. “If you help someone become a better leader, that person can help 1,000 others.” That, the couple agree, is a worthwhile investment. View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
on-the-ground partner organizations to assist in ongoing relief efforts. Additional IXP destinations for 2011 include Rwanda, Brazil, China, Vietnam, India, Silicon Valley, South Africa, and Vietnam. (The Bulletin went along on an IXP to Mexico a View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the lessons that you gleaned from those choices? Brady: So I bucket those two choices that both he and I had to make in a couple different ways. One is Stephen Reich taught me many, many different things. The first one is that a leader is... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
market share or whatnot and so the opportunity narrows. That was not the case with Cloudflare. A couple of years in we realized our opportunity had expanded and that we were thinking too narrowly. And that actually we should really think... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
the wait: A four-course meal based on local corn and tomatoes, offered only in August. Weekend hobby: BBQ. "I usually do pork shoulder or ribs. A couple of years ago I got a special smoker. It's nice because it forces you to commit the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz says, “I was still young and single, and I had a business problem I was passionate about. For the first couple of years I worked out of my own checkbook and slept on a lot of friends’ couches.” Kiva Systems is named after a Hopi... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Connecting with Clubs
and Associations Committee will build on survey work the Alumni Board has conducted over the past couple of years with the help of club and association presidents. Those findings have guided committee chair George Novak (AMP 153, 1997) in... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
retired, I'm looking at my future options. I still want to be involved in working with the country. Right now, I'm looking at a couple opportunities with two large defense contractors to be able to, once again, build quality products for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
management: “I was general manager at the Marriott in Phuket, Thailand, during the 2004 tsunami. We were fortunate enough to be able to set up a triage center to help others in the area. I had nightmares for a couple of weeks afterward.”... View Details