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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Asia and COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney. “It’s basically my career, crystallized,” he observes wryly. The trophies, and the magazine covers nearby, tell a very different story from Kim’s earlier, modest... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
slightly suspect at that point) concept and practice known as entrepreneurship. Reiss phoned Stevenson and arranged a visit. The two men discussed the R&R deal, which Reiss was then winding up, and Stevenson asked Reiss if he could write... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
soon the storm of allegations would draw undeniably close. In November, the award-winning screenwriter Jenny Lumet published a first-person account in the Hollywood Reporter of being violated in 1991 by Russell Simmons, the king of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
our story and gain feedback from an audience of potential investors,” Goble says. The victory also came with $75,000, a sizable sum for the young firm facing basic company-formation costs. The enterprise became part of the Harvard i-lab... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have really no bank accounts and no... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
north: “I was raised in Dayton, Ohio, by my single mother and my grandparents. We had all the basics money could buy and everything it couldn’t: love, honor, respect, values, and faith. That was the foundation, as was education.” Level... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
basically to impress her. So I learned how to sing. I learned how to play music and martial arts and many of those things basically just to make sure that she was attracted to me and she found me to be a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
moves quickly and correctly makes it immediately clear just how much conditioning and practice is required to reach a basic level of fight readiness. For most, of course, the combination of discipline, fitness, and focus that martial arts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
same as being wrong, but key lessons have been learned, and the enabling infrastructure (and expertise, frankly) is very, very different than it was before. Oh, and if Version 2.0 is wrong, humanity is basically toast. Current business... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
The problem is to find the way to make it possible for them to receive what they have earned.” (1969) “Incidentally, an old Hahvahd business acquaintance of mine was bugging me for a long time about how I ought to forsake this primitive village insofar as tax and View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) launched Hope and Comfort out of his Boston-area garage in 2011 to address the issue of hygiene insecurity in Massachusetts. "If you don't have basic hygiene products, it's very hard to stay clean, healthy, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the... View Details