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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
game board, whole sections of which were grayed out and unplayable, she says. Her professional network, skills, and expertise were all intertwined with an industry that felt toxic. From 2006 to 2008, by then... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi University 1988 Joins View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
RESEARCH CENTER (Silicon Valley) Bringing insights from tech industry into the classroom As West Coast companies make game-changing technological advances in areas such as generative AI, the metaverse, and blockchain, the center develops... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Perhaps not surprisingly, Oliver “Chip” Brewer III (MBA 1991) found his first job in golf while playing the game with a friend who happened to know the founder of Adams Golf. At the time, Brewer was working... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of doing good. I feel far more alive today than I’ve ever been in my whole life.” Industrial and sleek, Evolve academies feature plenty of glass and brushed steel. It’s a professional, we-mean-business sort of look that could be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
future,' it's clear to me that's the way things will turn out." But Chiofaro's career path hasn't always seemed so certain. After graduating in 1968 from Harvard College (where, as a bone-crunching linebacker, he captained the football team) and after a few View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the time, Deng Xiaoping was beginning to modernize the Chinese economy. “I was there about 30 years too early,” says Nelson, who left in 1980 to move to Sweden, where he married his girlfriend. Nelson came to HBS to gain the tools to transition into the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big Aha When Noam Wasserman enrolled... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
the league, which includes everything from marketing communications to information technology to pure international business. It's this last responsibility that has Tatum really animated. "When you look at the opportunity we have to grow our business and our View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
has developed games for fifteen international markets and has sold some six million units in the United States alone. A rule of thumb in the toy industry is that about half of all new board View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
valuations," Buffett asserted that high interest rates were to blame for keeping the Dow Jones Industrial Average virtually unchanged between 1964 and 1981 despite a 370 percent increase in U.S. GDP during that period. From 1982 through... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
exaggerated." by James E. Aisner (Adapted from the Winter 1999 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of the HBS Division of Research.) The Real Estate Game by William J. Poorvu with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (Free Press) The... View Details