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- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States. I found that there was a huge opportunity to disrupt the intimate apparel space. People are so tired of high prices and slow fashion from Victoria's Secret, and I knew we could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
It was a giddy time that presaged a new frontier, when a tinkering youth would become an international monopolist, and hundreds like him, eager for the quick riches that appeared inevitable, would start new businesses based on a revolutionary technology. Countless... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in empowering the fight for health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“One more door is shut in terms of how seniors can find the money to survive as they age.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, reacting to news that Wells Fargo has joined Bank of America in no longer offering reverse mortgages. (American Public Media’s... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says Scharpf. The Rwandan venture will manufacture and View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users. A. Chyei Vinluan, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business Administration in both the Negotiation, Organizations, and View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
as pursuits like marketing or law. RELATED HBSP Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures Immigration is such a hot-button topic in politics. Do you hold out any hope that your research can provide a more balanced perspective? I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of emerging and developed market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
make the wrong moves. I have had my share of those. Over the past nine years at my company, we’ve developed a constructive, respectful, and strike-free relationship with our labor partners, which has helped the firm’s development. On the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
for everything from market research to packaging. What do you hope the book will do for would-be entrepreneurs? I’d like it to give them confidence to start their ventures with a playbook so that the path is not as lonely or ambiguous.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
of the league's broadcasting committee and the securing of lucrative TV contracts, and for helping forge peace between players and owners during heated labor negotiations in 2011. Goal to Go While expanding its fan base and finding new... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of India recently hosted its first conference devoted to exploring gender issues in the workplace of the future. The Future of Work: Accelerating Gender Parity Conference, held on September 21 in Mumbai, was an invitation-only... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
companies. They also boast a rising labor force that’s among the strongest in the country, while the workforces of other states are dwindling. Health care in the area is strong, highlighted by the Mayo Clinic, and the education system is... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to software code. "Spot labor" View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000 vehicles. Today, with revenues of $1.5 billion and a View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 edited by Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin (Chemical Heritage Foundation) In a period of rapid scientific and market changes, success in regulating food products, prescription drugs,... View Details