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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
half that of traditional pawnshops; and Rappler, the Philippines’ last independent news outlet and where Ayala also serves as chairman of the board. “At Hatchd, it’s kind of like we’re professional cofounders,” he says. Ko, who is now Asia lead for Zipline... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
throughout Jacobson's life. At the University of Pennsylvania, Jacobson studied international relations with a specialization in China. After college, she worked in operations at Greenwich Associates and was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
and generating human-like text. HBS is equipping students with the skills and information needed to use AI-powered platforms such as ChatGPT for case preparation—to clarify complex concepts or analyze data—and to reflect more deeply on classroom discussions. A View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the world’s leading private equity firms. The decision to specialize in media and communications in 1985 might seem prescient, but the low-key Nelson claims he was merely following his passion. “I’ve always been drawn to it,” says Nelson,... 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
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
colada, the standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. Royle and Wood saw a demand for adult beverages as interesting and complex as a satisfying cocktail, just without the alcohol.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Lusophone-Portuguese, and Arabic.” Different media companies specialize in each block, so there’s no single TV contract to sign. The free-to-air TV space is even more fragmented, with literally hundreds of broadcasters View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
where anyone can contribute to create a “win-win” business together. When I joined Sanrio in 2008, our market cap was about $500 million. Now it’s closer to $3.5 billion, with $750 million in sales and an operating profit just over $200... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Shoshanah Cohen (MBA '92)
achieving it. Upon graduation, Cohen joined Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), a management consulting firm in Mountain View, California, that specializes in operations work for technology-driven... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
explained to an audience of returning MBA alumni during a reunion presentation last fall, “In approaching some one hundred companies, ranging from manufacturing to service businesses, we were attempting to discover the operating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
want things to be done right, but we don’t want to invest a lot of thought and process in finding a solution.” Online reviews are nothing new, of course. But Angie’s List was early to the game and operates under an almost unthinkable... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
Eventually she realized that opening a store specializing in designer women's shoes size 9 and up would be the perfect fit. Last August, Thornton set up one shop on Boston's trendy Newbury Street - and another on the Information Highway.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
110 percent" of himself to anything he's involved in, earned a reputation among students and staff at HBS as someone who could always be counted on to do a job - and another and another - and do it right. Sometimes in highly visible roles, sometimes View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
who served alongside male-only US Special Operations teams in Afghanistan became a bestseller and is being turned into a movie by Reese Witherspoon. But Lemmon, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Battalion Assistance Foundation, dedicated to assisting rangers and their families when their needs outstrip the Army’s abilities to meet them. Says Scherrer, who serves on the foundation’s board, “The Rangers are an elite special View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Pitch for Change
such as Raymond Chambers, UN Special Envoy for Malaria; more than twenty panels and workshops on technology, energy, development, health care, investing, and education; and a career fair. For more on the event, visit... View Details