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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
to online retail and commercial real estate. Today, leaders in business have an obligation not only to investors but to their employees and communities. At the core of this challenge is helping their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
One is a very scientific mission and the other is a commercial mission. On the scientific side, our objective is literally to reverse engineer the human neocortex. Figure out how the brain works. That is the core of who we are and why... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
SpaceX launched and successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral just a few weeks later—delivering 11 satellites into low-Earth orbit for a commercial client—CEO Elon Musk noted that it costs $60 million to make the rocket... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
points out, many different actors must come together to form an entrepreneurial ecosystem, from risk-taking founders to the angel investors willing to gamble on them to the service providers—e.g., real View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
observes Conforti, who is now Finale’s president. Their HBS credentials, recalls Conforti, were “also very helpful in convincing investors that we were going to manage the inherent risk of running a restaurant better than others might.” The entrepreneur’s version of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
here’s where the historical philanthropic paradigm gets turned upside down: Rodríguez wants IGNIA investors to get real financial returns on their money. Not just make their money back—money that can be reinvested—but maybe even beat the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was,” she says. “Our goal is to raise $150 million and help fund 5,500 homes over the next five years.” In an odd twist, the real estate foreclosure crisis has made it possible for Habitat to serve more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week interview:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
world to another. There is failure, success, and death. Marriage, children, and real estate. Fires, war, and moral weakness. And the ups and downs of one man’s bakery. “Age ab[ou]t 50, fam[ily] of ab[ou]t 5 children, has done an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
and four are rich, pretty, and a real estate agent. [LAUGHTER] Which is true and hilarious. So we'd rather be happy than anything else. The sad part is that if you look at Professor David Meyers' work at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy—GE-financed planes powered by GE-manufactured engines had just destroyed real View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
creative avenues that interested me.” Holden began his career as a securities analyst, then left to start his own financial-advisory consulting business, eventually concentrating on small, private syndications in real estate. “My advice... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
founded Alibris, an e-commerce company that sells used, rare, and out-of-print books. We failed, a lot—HBS has a case on our more interesting failures. Our biggest setback came early. We planned to launch our commercial website and close... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real View Details