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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
at all." "It's a win-win situation," she states. "We are empowering a lot of people - many of whom have just arrived in this country - with the ability to become entrepreneurs. We attract customers every weekend who patronize the local... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the IPO," Higgins says. Such downstream connections can be valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
serves as the epicenter of all contacts and communications between the club and local alumni. Today, with 275 members — its highest membership rate ever — the HBS Club of Puget Sound is flourishing. One of its most popular events, the yearly Seattle Trek, View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
population of only 3.8 million, Ireland, Barry acknowledges, can't always provide enough career opportunities to attract HBS graduates — but the country, particularly Dublin (population 985,000), feels more like a supportive community... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long tradition of research on family companies, HBS has started... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting the United States as an View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
partner at Andersen Consulting, and Paula A. Sneed (MBA 1977) of Kraft Foods. Ronald Goldsberry, a former auto industry executive and now a dot-com entrepreneur, described the rewards of joining a growing Internet company. "I was View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
patterns of corporate governance and finance between the early 20th century and the 1990s. To attract investors, the statutes of companies organized before 1910 often included stronger protections for small shareholders than what the law... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
Ellison hopes to reverse by “extending our reach, without lowering the bar, to attract more families and kids who are willing to work hard.” While at HBS Ellison recalls being inspired by several members of the Finance faculty — including... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
malls, schools, agricultural equipment, and airports. Noting that Homestrings will expand soon to Asia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and China, with plans for Latin America and the Caribbean on the horizon, Guichard says, “We look for offerings that combine... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
prides itself on a handcrafted approach to coffee beverages that highlight natural flavors. Before coming to HBS, Keller served four years in the Navy; he cites teamwork as one of the greatest attractions of the work he did then and now.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
think about attracting candidates differently: We’re not necessarily looking for someone who is on the market, we’re looking to start a dialogue with somebody six months, one year, even two years out from a job transition. One tool we’d... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
professorship is both a tribute to Fitzhugh's career and a means for HBS to build upon his efforts by attracting and retaining faculty whose research focuses on issues of diversity. "Naylor Fitzhugh was a pioneer in his professional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, attracted some 350 attendees for a full agenda of speakers, panels, and case presentations. In an afternoon keynote address, Ricardo... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
For Lynn Thoman, co-president of the Leon Lowenstein Foundation and managing partner of Corporate Perspectives, choosing an MBA program was easy. “Harvard Business School was the only one I applied to,” she says. “I was attracted by the... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
The Power of Three
do the same for another young person.” Frist agrees. “The mission of the School is to educate leaders,” she says. “It’s critical to attract the best possible students, regardless of their ability to pay.” In addition to supporting... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
hone their leadership, teamwork, and design thinking skills to prepare for their Brazil immersion. The process informed the goal: to help their partner company attract more young families to the bakery chain and scale the business. “In... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
among Maine's business leaders and entrepreneurs, who left the event with a clearer understanding of the problems that keep Maine from attracting new business. At the end of the discussion, Governor King spoke about his commitment to... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
professors from other graduate schools on research in interdisciplinary fields. They are also teaching courses that attract the interest of graduate students from other schools. And the Harvard Innovation Lab that HBS will fund, to be... View Details