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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with three partners, he developed a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
countries participated via a live webcast. Jonströmer co-hosted the forum with Ingmar Rentzhog, the CEO of We Don’t Have Time, the world’s largest social media platform focused on engaging world leaders to address climate change.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
impacts of such initiatives. As a platform for knowledge exchange, networking, and collaboration among experts, policymakers, and stakeholders, Lootah says the Crossroads Forum—now in its fourth year— holds significant potential to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
they buy. And in this excerpt, Toffel and Pal talk about Common’s business model, the market opportunity, and what she’s learned about launching a climate venture. Courtesy Sanchali Pal READ MORE Mike Toffel: So let's talk a little bit about the business model. So... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Taking a Stand. Patagonia pulled its advertising from Facebook and has recently renewed its call on other firms to boycott the platform until Facebook can make sure its products do no harm. What would taking a stand look like for your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first of 15 Jr. NBA programs focused on youth development; in 2017, it opened NBA Academy Africa, one of four NBA Academy programs around the world that features elite training for high school-age prospects, in Senegal. Yet fulfilling the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
same manner, creating a multiplier effect. For the future, I believe HBS should train managers for all parts of society, not just for business. Companies know that success means having managers with an open mind and a mindset of how to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
equipment. By 1979, that figure had increased by two orders of magnitude to $217.4 million. Fabrication facilities [“fabs”] were expensive. During the 1970s, the semiconductor industry became capital intensive. Manufacturing at Intel began in Fab 1 in Mountain View.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Transparency in a Simple Labor Market,” she and Brown University’s Bobak Pakzad-Hurson drew on data from online platforms used by employers seeking temporary workers; they also conducted an experiment that involved managers and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
and respond more quickly to emerging issues in the business world. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES The launch of the Institute in July marked the opening of 12... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
the internet on the lock screen is that you have all options of monetization open for you, right? So clearly advertising is a big option and that’s where, you know, our own InMobi ads platform becomes really... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
each category—met in mid-April at the Rock Center to give one last 90-second pitch to the judges and audience. In each category, the Grand Prize winner took home $75,000; the Runner-up $25,000; and the Crowd Favorite $5,000. Applications for this year’s alumni track of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
ground. After establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says. Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
education opportunities. But HBS gave Curiel more effective tools. “HBS opened my eyes to the power and resources of business and the possibility that it could be harnessed for the greater good,” he says. The Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
dinner raised $1.3 million toward the club's extensive programming, pro bono consulting, and student scholarships as well as club staffing and operations. The evening opened with a welcome from Club president Clare Peeters (MBA 2000) and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015) grew up with firsthand knowledge of what it takes to be an entrepreneur: Their mother View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for... View Details