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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Image by C.J. Burton Since the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program was launched at HBS 17 years ago, it has provided nonprofits with something they need but can rarely afford: executive training. SPNM, which is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
(MBA 2002) BUECHLER: Our success starts with great products. We brew more than 100 new products we like to drink at our R&D facility every year. We couple that with an amazing team that loves to work hard and have fun. Finally, we love to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Home Entertainment, the network’s DVD and digital distribution division. “The most exciting thing about this area is waking up and knowing that whatever you thought was true yesterday is not true today.” In April the company, after some deliberation, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
take away a valuable tool — a computer. They will be on par with fellow students who have a computer at home." Since the project's launch last October, more than a dozen HBSAAA volunteers have dedicated several hours every other Saturday... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
types: “My group always asked me to be the team leader, maybe because they didn’t want me to mess up what they were working on too much,” she laughs. From her time at HBS, Gehrke cites first-year Marketing with former HBS professor Marty... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
want to advance myself at the expense of other people. "It hasn't been easy," continues Feeley, whose most recent startup is the Sino-American Development Corporation, which he helped launch in 1993 to foster closer relations between U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
maybe this is just a checkbox. But honestly, I think doing purpose is hard work. It’s not some kind of change management exercise. You can’t just launch a purpose and then cascade it out into the organization. People have to buy into it.... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
board service about a decade ago, he observed that there was a severe lack of representation in boardrooms in Pittsburgh. “So, what are you going to do about it?” he remembers someone asking him. With that catalyst and funding from regional corporations, Motley and his... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
was clear: launching this project became my priority. “We definitely need these types of initiatives! The policies required to address climate change require broad support to be implemented. That is impossible when only 16 percent of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
careers and team chances of winning championships. The aches, pains, and strains that these professionals endure are also a personal concern for weekend warriors and anyone who works in physically demanding environments: “We are all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
a necessary first step in meeting the increasing demand for online educational tools. The newly remote DreamBox team decided to shift its focus to support, providing customer service not just for the 130,000 educators who had been in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
evolving discussion. I saw how rich the learning is at HBS, and I was hooked.” After graduation, Losee was an HBS Fellow in the Dean’s office, working on the launch of HBX among other projects before returning to Bain & Company. He... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
that inner voice led Ayala to launch Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI), a Philippine social business that distributes solar lanterns and water filtration devices specifically designed for the needs of poor communities. HSSI’s solar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was able to View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
Illustration by Neil Webb Illustration by Neil Webb Josh Hoffman-Senn (MBA 2019) and fellow cofounder of LS, Jimmy Pemberton, launched their initial digital toolkit in 2021, after seeing fellow musicians search out supplemental income... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
want to launch a business today in blockchain and you're a historian like me and you understand there's an opportunity. I can spend three years learning blockchain, maybe learning how to code, or I can go to a meetup and find a partner... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
and a team of investors bought the shuttered plant and got it up and running again. Adopting a local word for "genesis," Okoloko would call his new company Notore Chemical Industries Ltd. Looking for professional managers two years later,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
across the University who are at various stages of developing or launching businesses. During biweekly discussions at the Harvard Innovation Lab, topics run the gamut from attracting angel investors, to recruiting a View Details