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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
interested in classical music. And HBS graduates have played a key role in all of this.” Indeed, according to Slavet, field-study and class-project recommendations by HBS students “laid the groundwork for what we’ve become — an online View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
the relevant markets or levels where competition in health care should occur. How do we get from the current mess to a value-driven health-care system? The U.S. system can be reformed from the bottom up. One of the most hopeful things we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
integration.” Within two years of buying out Zain, operating in Africa as Airtel, Bharti has added more than 14 million new mobile customers (for a current total exceeding 50 million), while investing approximately US$1 billion in network infrastructure. Some observers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
what equality really means. It means rethinking everything.” Recommended by Marketing expert Kathleen Harrington Clark (MBA 1990) Stretch by Scott Sonenshein Sonenshein on recognizing your abilities: “We routinely overestimate the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
branding and market intelligence,” she says. “Sometimes there isn’t a trademark issue, but perhaps there are associations with another category of goods that could be worrisome, or just send the wrong message.” Other recently added... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
alcoholic who swears he is just a social drinker to the investor who refuses to open his 401(k) statement after a market crash, denial permeates every facet of life. The impulse to avoid painful truths, just... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to run Neutrogena.”... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family line of... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
social media,” Gelman explains. Several years ago, the Patriots relied on similar analytics to re-invent its marketing to women, launching successful merchandising, a new online content section called... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
and government. Japan, which is strong in all those areas, could once again be a formidable U.S. competitor. And that, say the authors, would ultimately be good for the United States. HBS Press Books in Brief (Harvard Business School Press) In Good Company: How View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival of an endangered species. At the same time, managers are... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
others,” Nwuneli said, according to a report in Nigeria’sThe Nation. A native Nigerian who lives in Lagos, Nwuneli noted the importance of “reimagining how our market is structured to allow social... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s Global Experience Office and by the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me to confront those late-night... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Reichheld, maintains that it isn't new market forces that make loyalty so elusive in the digital arena — it's faulty leadership. Applying his breakthrough loyalty theories to the digital economy, the author shows that the Web can actually... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
2011 host clubs Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship winner Student Business Plan winners Business Plan competition turns 15 In the throwaway graveyard where once trendy TVs, smartphones, and laptops go to become junk, Privahini Bradoo (MBA... View Details