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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
in Barared. As cofounder of the IGNIA Fund, along with HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu, Rodríguez looks for investments that serve what he calls “the base of the pyramid.” In 2010, IGNIA invested $3.1 million in Barared, helping it View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
marketplace.” And IBM is attempting to leverage its expertise to get its share of that, he says. Doing so, analysts say, will be the foundation for IBM deep into the 21st century. “Transformation and transition is something IBM does very... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, grew out of Murrell’s 2014 PhD dissertation—a degree she pursued after working in finance for more than 25 years. +LISTEN Murrell talks about transitioning from a career in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Defecting from his position as Rajapaksa’s minister of health, Sirisena’s unexpected win signaled a miraculously peaceful transition to a more democratic, just future. A coalition government formed, with Ranil Wickremesinghe, a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
businesses, he began drinking heavily and eventually lost it all,” the Albuquerque Journal (December 7, 2000) reported. Cordova said that he wound up “high-class homeless — that means I lived in a van.” Later, he learned about RS&VP, a View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
workers with mental illness? Switz: I would like to see a person who's struggling with a mental health condition get flowers or a card. I would love to see that person get support in transitioning back to work. I'd love to see the mental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
still touched by something her father told her that day: "You're fulfilling a dream I never dared to have." The transition was not easy for Sender. Everything from the lack of sunlight in the long New England winters to the constant... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
a milestone, because the EAEF was Dawi's first institutional investor and helped us grow from 4 clinics to 16 today." Enan also helped lead the EAEF's investment in Egyptian accelerator Flat6Labs and its anchor investment in Algebra Ventures' first fund. From there, it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
more important to heed the lessons of failure.” My key lesson was to view this failure as the beginning of a new journey and use it as a foundation for future success. Although my brokerage business was a failure, it became the catalyst for my View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to shift away from a carbon economy and to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. “This buys time to allow that transition to happen,” he says. View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
offices. Burwick managed all of this, the article notes, while guiding the company through a transition from public entity to private ownership. Before joining Peet’s, Burwick worked at PepsiCo and as president of Weight Watchers North... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
rowdy. Reports Golding, “This annual event took place in the spring, usually early May, and involved a transit of the waters between the Weeks and Larz Anderson bridges (and back) in craft that were entirely homemade. That means wood,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
pregnant with our third child and had been slightly pressured to transition to higher-level positions full-time, having completed all obvious middle-management, part-time projects. I reluctantly chose to be a full-time mom. The three... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
disadvantage women. During the pandemic, Feinzaig has been working diligently to re-create the Alliance’s offerings online. The shift to digital interactions could exacerbate existing disparities if the transition is not made... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
it. We went into high gear in mid to late February and now at least 50 percent of the company is focused on COVID-19. Osmosis was built from the ground up with a distributed work force, so we’ve seen less disruption than some companies that have had to View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- News
Suzanne J. Battit (MBA 1992)
to me,” says Battit. She was ready for a change, and her HBS classmates helped her navigate it. “Through HBS I have a network of just amazing colleagues who are gracious with their time and advice,” says Battit. During a 10th reunion planning meeting, she mentioned an... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
transformation that is as radical as it is methodical, as essential to the company’s survival as Steve Jobs’s iPhone was to Apple’s.” In overseeing the company’s transition to a lean operation more akin to a tech innovator, Immelt has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
Narayandas (photo by Jimmy Ushkurnis) Narayandas (photo by Jimmy Ushkurnis) Das Narayandas, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, was named Senior Associate Dean for External Relations this fall, taking over for Bill Sahlman, who is retiring and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
least short term," Weedon explains. "Despite the demanding weekday evenings of our members," concludes Weedon, who runs BoardSearch, a top-level executive search and career transition advice firm, "our membership is flourishing, and the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Chenavari decided within days of the election to acquire Aegean Baltic Bank and expand its footprint in Greece. Arhodidis is overseeing the transition through the regulatory approvals, and then will become the bank’s CEO. “It’s one of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint