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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
Is the bloom off the entrepreneurial rose? Do B2B and B2C mean "Back to Banking" and "Back to Consulting," as the current joke would have it? Where are the opportunities for those who still believe starting their own business is the way... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 50 percent by 2025. Other studies have found that, within a generation, one in three... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
"Ranger Bolick, you have the heart of a lion, but your body just isn't keeping up. Hang in there; you have what it takes." Scott Bolick will never forget those words. In 1990, fresh out of West Point, he was struggling through the Army's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. People cheered when the live... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The September cohort of the Class of 1998 has arrived on campus, and with the new academic year starts a fresh term for the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since the Board represents over 60,000 HBS alumni, I... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With workers hustling to prep and cook... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
tour director and led the group on a highly successful 1992 European concert tour. Returning to Cambridge, Lim and his classmate, first violinist Scott Y. Yoo (Harvard '93), conceived the idea of starting an orchestra, with 18- to... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
He calls the hood of a rusty Chevy truck his “conference area” and the passenger seat his “desk.” His part-time help is his fiancée, whom he first recruited to his 1,400-acre Achille, Oklahoma, ranch with the promise of fresh... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
Friday nights while enjoying all kinds of food and beer.” Serendipity: “I met my wife, [Donna Eplett (MBA 1989)], when we were summer interns at Pepsi-Cola in New York City. We started dating our second year at HBS, and it just blossomed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
debut in Target and Fresh Market stores. Kahawa 1893 is experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a cafe setting. The... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
and outputs. Even so, art can have considerable value to business as an investment and that requires a healthy supply chain, that is, a healthy art community. “It is the classics that today have the greatest value,” says Tetsuji Shibayama (MBA 1990). “But they did not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
operate sustainably. “I started Sundrop Farms about four years out of the MBA program. Most people don’t know but agriculture consumes about 50 percent of your operating costs are related to fossil fuels. Agriculture uses about 70 percent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
i-lab—has given Cryoocyte the funding and fresh ideas needed to hone its technology in the field. To gather viable eggs for testing, the company’s Allston-based team has had to follow spawning season, from Panama to the Patagonia... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Illustration by James Steinberg Illustration by James Steinberg Picture today’s conscious consumer pulling on a fresh organic cotton tee shirt, then driving their hybrid or electric vehicle to the grocery store to pack reusable shopping... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
experience. When they come back into the workplace, they’ve got all of that and they’ve got some maturity and a fresh perspective that’s acquired through managing different things. “They are going to be more stable than other employees,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
there is an audible buzz—the sound of deals being made. Over coffee and fresh bread, someone with an idea and someone with the knowledge, money, or connection to turn that idea into a reality are hatching a deal that might just change the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture