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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
together, Mitchell and Humpierres launched a line of microwavable heating pads filled with cherry pits. “It’s a very niche market,” Humpierres acknowledges, but once they saw that it was also successful, they decided to diversify. In June... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
(photos courtesy of Lovepop) (photos courtesy of Lovepop) Lovepop makes greeting cards that open to reveal intricate 3D designs that resemble an artistic take on a children’s pop-up book. The brainchild of two former ship designers—Wombi... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
When I reached the animal, I grabbed his collar and he started swimming over me and past me (just like a drowning human) to shore through the path that I had made through the ice. As we got closer, someone in the crowd accurately threw a View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Wilson Illustration by Jeffrey Smith After 121 days at sea, Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) sailed his 60-foot, single-hull sloop Great American III across the finish line in France last March, completing the 2008–09 Vendée Globe around-the-world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced by heavy transportation—namely, the trucks, planes, trains,... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
then bigger. Frey encourages would-be adventurers to think of themselves “as capable of much more than you currently envision” and to recognize that “real learning and personal growth come from stepping outside your comfort zone.” He quotes John A. Shedd’s 1928 book,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
Cofounder, CEO & Board Chair, Numenta, Inc. Former CEO, Palm Computing, Inc., & Handspring, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1977 B.A., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Integrity first and foremost. You just can't... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
leading and overseeing a group of creatives. You have to be brave and flexible enough to allow them to bring what they’re able to bring, while also keeping the ship on course. Knowing where to step in and where to let go is very... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
slowly—moving the ball down the field. A central pillar of the megapolis plan, it is likely to be among the first to see completion. For starters, the first 25 kilometers of a new light rail line will shrink a painfully slow commute from... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates the customers and the employees... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
some tips on surviving.” Among the lessons she learned that helped her and her 103-year-old mother cope: you must fight the despair by exercising your mind, keep your emotions in check by taking the long view, and stay connected to others. “The through View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
says. “It’s a positive sign for foreign investors who want to see Greeks investing in Greece first.” China isn’t waiting. When President Xi Jinping visited Athens in November, the two leaders announced 16 different agreements, including a 600 million investment by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
caused by hidden munitions on board, may have been the reason why the passenger ship sank in a deadly eighteen minutes, causing 1,198 deaths. As odd as it may sound, he also happens to hold title to the wreck, having purchased it for $1... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
day. He finally found one in “Djibouti? Or Jordan?” — he can no longer remember — and had it shipped to him. This mishmash of days and roles was Kim’s job as CHAI’s deputy country director in Ethiopia, where he managed the daily... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the economist’s normal pastimes of rummaging through data sets, crunching numbers, and testing theories. But one day, he found himself hung up on the opening line of a teaching case: DuPont was considering entering the titanium dioxide... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)