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- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
country. It becomes part of your value system.” Warm up with Rawdon’s winter wear for children Previous Next Quiet your mind Jamie Hanna (MBA ’98) Founder, Zobha “I wanted to build a brand that inspires people to be the best versions of themselves . When we View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were predicated on global supply... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
on Wingspanbank.com brings many important issues to the fore. Wingspanbank is an Internet-only bank that markets itself with the claim, "If your bank could start over, this is what it would be." Created in a record four months and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
organization dedicated to improving educational access, quality, and outcomes for children from underprivileged backgrounds. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the foundation launched a crowdfunding campaign that has raised... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
Since the launch of The Harvard Business School Campaign on April 25, 2014, more than 5,000 alumni and guests have come together to celebrate the School and its mission at regional events around the world and the Campaign’s website has... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
pieces that really worked for a particular individual were limited,” says Magnúsdóttir, who also cofounded Moda Operandi, a “pretail” site giving customers first access to items straight from the runway. On the Tinker Tailor website, which View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
connect alumni and friends with fellow alumni, faculty members, and other experts around a variety of issues related to the pandemic. Highlights of their efforts include the following: Africa Research Center—In June, the center launched... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
experience working with a Ukrainian supplier named Rolin Kostya, who continues to make his products under great duress. “The week I spoke to them, there had been a half dozen air raid warnings—and indeed one interrupted the Zoom call—and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in long reports that provided an... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
2011) brings those two very different cultures together at Rock Health, a San Francisco–based full-service seed fund launched during her second year at HBS with classmate and medical doctor Nate Gross (MBA 2011). (Gross continues to serve... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
other countries. "Many product innovations, which benefit both the schools and IBM, have resulted from this initiative," Kanter stresses. Kanter has also studied corporations that have successfully launched... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
The School’s Centennial year just happens to coincide with another important anniversary, one many business schools would like to forget: the debut of BusinessWeek’s school rankings in 1988. Talk about disruptive. Up to that point, business schools built their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
says he loved the idea of boosting domestic energy production while recycling existing sources of CO2, because he had come to HBS looking to merge his interests in business, energy, and the environment. The son of a commercial fisherman,... View Details
- 30 May 2025
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Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
which featured Professor Christina Wallace, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at HBS, who shared insights from her best-selling book, The Portfolio Life. This is the third such gala, launched in 2023 by HBS Club of Mexico... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley