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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Palatino, Optima, and Gotham, among numerous other well-known names—Monotype offers typefaces from more than 4,000 designers and foundries, a total of well over 200,000 options. Until recently, these fonts were licensed to designers on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
9 p.m. Friday, about the time, Timken says, “when the beer hits the bloodstream.” A traffic stop on a Honda Civic (probable cause: brake light out) turns up an 18-year-old driver, Alejandro, with no license and no insurance. With him is... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
for the development and exclusive use of the mRNA technology to treat cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic diseases as well as cancer. "It is one of the largest-ever initial payments in a pharmaceutical industry licensing deal that does... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
apartness gives him, and MacDonald, license to critique modern life, commentary that legions of readers enjoy as much as McGee’s wildly entertaining adventures. McGee has a thoughtful, amiable buddy named Meyer, a brilliant “retired... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
related merchandising licenses for toys and other consumer products. The first Marvel-produced theatrical release (Captain America is a likely subject) is scheduled to appear in summer 2008. Marvel, based in New York, with offices in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
For Hello Kitty, we like to say, “Small gift, big smile.” We have a 10-cent lollipop at some mass retailers. But we also have $500,000 jewelry. Sanrio has more than 3,000 licensing partners in over 130 countries. The happiness of bringing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and research associate Daniel Penrice. How to Harness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the Visor, a popular PDA that is... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
private schools. It has grown to 1,022 students, drawn not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. She also owns three other schools, licenses out another one, and has opened a center in a poor community that ensures... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
Real estate broker Sharon Enloe Baum (MBA ’65) cruises the streets of Manhattan in a chauffeured black Rolls-Royce that sports the license plate SOLD 1. Actually, in terms of co-ops and houses, she’s sold a lot more than one during her... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
in San Francisco. ArtLifting’s chief operating officer Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015) told the Times that the company is gearing up for dramatic growth: “We have the funding right now, but it isn’t going to be here forever This is a critical year to grow sales, and we’re... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
became an online business, and seven to eight years later we’re the largest search engine for out-of-school enrichment for students in middle and high school. We have licensing agreements with national partners like Hobsons; we publish... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
struggle or fail because they lacked legal basics like founder agreements or proper vesting and licensing arrangements." Funding "VC funding gets all the publicity, but it's not right for every startup. There are different ways to finance... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
into reading and exploring.” So perhaps it’s not surprising that, along with partner and co-CEO Michelle Crames (MBA ’03), Norton founded an LA-based company called Lean Forward Media, licensed the rights to the Choose series, and is now... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
guests, participants addressed both the positive and the negative factors that business encounters in a state best known by the nickname inscribed on its license plates: "Vacationland." "The whole discussion was predicated on a very... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
approved.” Like Hefner, other innovators in Harris’s pantheon never get dulled by the details. Southwest Airlines cofounder Herb Kelleher was known to personally load baggage to improve employee morale. Walt Disney, as much of a business pioneer as entertainment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
to sue. “Patent trolling” is the opportunistic use of a patent to extract licensing fees or settlements when no infringement has occurred. On average it takes 18 to 24 months and about $500,000 to $3 million for a patent holder to defend... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the world’s climate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons