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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and CEO, Xora, Mountain View, California; founder and chairman, Deathwise, San Francisco, California Mentors come into our lives in unexpected ways. As a young technology professional, I naively imagined that I could find some female... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising product quality. At the same time,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank coffee, a once-innocuous beverage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
three years of relief from their high costs. And then at the end of the three years, it was bounced back to where it was. And the other airlines, by the way, did these deals. But to me, it was nuts. We had a permanent change in our... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
market share. In all her endeavors, Dubinsky has compiled an extraordinary record by introducing practical applications of cutting-edge technology into our daily lives. Growing up in a small town in Michigan, Donna Dubinsky had her first... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
includes laughter, music, eating well, and finding joy at any age; the role of caregivers and their critical impact on extending your lifespan; how your environment and demographics affect aging, and how to adopt new technologies and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
away from what has made the Internet so amazing for the economy in the world. Prince: For us, whenever we go to roll out a new function we’ll often reach out to our free customers and say hey we’re thinking of building this really high... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
7-Eleven? ” says Rothrock. “Of course they do. But we make the penalties harsh. We make the capability to catch them high so that they think twice about it, and that’s what we’ve got to do with cyber.” But Rothrock is certain that we’ll... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the extraordinary work done by Conference Chair Don Hastings (MBA '53) and his organizing team, the Cleveland Conference received high marks all around. In addition to monitoring this conference's progress, the committee continued to... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
highs and lows—as any business would—but we’re building a business for the long term. We are focused on growing in a way that will allow us to continue to serve the customers we know really well while building for new and prospective... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
says Bailey. “If we lose these, we have nothing.” Accordingly, green technology and sustainability are not just nice add-ons but business imperatives. Yet traditional bottom-line considerations pertain as well: “As is typical in remote,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
represents a growing trend or an unsettling blip, but one thing is certain: As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. The movies are... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Howard, Fitzhugh joined Pepsi in 1965, where he developed the first marketing efforts directed at African Americans. Credited with creating the concept of targeted marketing, he also attracted and mentored black executives and created two programs that introduced View Details