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- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... 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
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
further acquisitions to take PCL to the next level! With the ever-changing industry that we operate in, I look forward to the new challenges along this journey.” Can you tell us about MAYU and what motivated you and your wife to launch... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
as a platform to not only improve the health and wellness of one of the world’s youngest and fastest growing populations but also to create a whole new industry around the business of sports,” says Tatum. Creating an View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Fashion’s Transparent Translator
In 2007, Imran Amed (MBA 2002) started blogging about an industry that fascinated him: fashion. A former McKinsey consultant, the Canadian noticed the suits and creatives of the business didn’t always understand each other. Amed thought... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
began raising funds to support small businesses within the fashion and garment industries that pivoted their manufacturing to create personal protective equipment and partnered with The RealReal, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
attack new markets, it is the shift in the mindset of employees that can prove most difficult.” Creativity is doubtless a significant force in the Indian fashion business, the focus of research by HBS assistant professor Mukti Khaire.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
products, organizations, and brands. She explains how they used their brands as strategic tools to create best-of-class companies that maintained close connections with customers and to fashion new markets for their products. These... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was destined to become an important national resource. Indeed, he has fashioned an impressive career built on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
thing. Shoppers want value but also a stimulating experience, or "discovery shopping." Rakuten helps its vendors, many of them small-shop owners, use social media to offer unique content, such as the fashion shop that chronicles its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
all of these things have been areas of great concern and have caused challenges for the fashion industry, because obviously it’s an industry built on premium brands, authenticity, and strong customer... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and public service, most recently as Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, a post he held until just recently when his People’s Action Party suffered an election defeat in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Fifth Avenue. “Widening opportunities and providing mentoring for young people of color are important aspects of the Homecoming Initiative,” notes Kenneth, a vice president at General Catalyst Partners. Commenting on this summer’s ARF-sponsored View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
several areas. Working with a few retailers as a young principal at the firm in the early 1980s, she realized that retailing, which represents one-third of the American economy, could benefit from McKinsey's management expertise. "The timing was terrific, because the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent... View Details