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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and selling... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
2013—even as the national economy stalled. And fashion is one of its hottest sectors, according to e-bit, responsible for almost 14 percent of e-commerce sales, ahead of household appliances and cosmetics. Beisert says olook is poised for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
campaign, Employee Association to Renegotiate Noncompetes (EARN) in 2016. Because EARN’s “pop-up unions,” organized under the National Labor Relations Act, are designed to only engage the company on one issue and then dissolve, companies... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Photography by Michael Stravato From cofounding the first aerial tramway high above Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy, to helping a two-person wind-energy startup become an industry leader, to making a quixotic run for US Congress, Michael... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
wins, combined with a July 2012 paper that detailed the science behind the technology, attracted attention from the likes of the Economist and National Public Radio. Soon, Schrader no longer had to cold call the pharma companies—they were... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
company Value Retail—and HBS alumni are the founders, chairmen, and CEOs of some of the sector’s hottest properties, from textile manufacturing leader Esquel Group to DIY makeup startup Mink. The business minds are suddenly as influential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
you. Paul Conforti (MBA 1997) was a 1997 quarterfinalist with classmates Kim Moore and Kristen Krzyzewski for Finale, an upscale restaurant with a focus on desserts. “I envisioned the path to be a little different,” Conforti confesses. “The plan all along was to turn... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
reusable insulated water bottles. Kauss works with designers and artists to introduce new looks every season, often in partnership with major brands such as Disney and National Geographic. Her goal, however, is not to help people look... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
Maintaining a technological edge in space has therefore become crucial to national security. And as the main source of dynamism and innovation in the space sector, “the American space startup ecosystem is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
children by 2030. They want to ensure that every child, regardless of income or background, achieves full brain and body development by age six. The digital platform offers content that is curated by a team of teachers, vetted by the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
University in the spring of 1970. "I went over mainly out of curiosity - to observe and see what was going on," explains Belkin, now chairman and CEO of Trans National Group, a large direct-marketing company he started just three years... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back on Course
style. At the New York National Boat Show last January, Julius and Heese "practically elbowed each other in their eagerness to point out their boats' teak decks, retro curves, and perforated steel dashboards and to show, running their... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
the National Venture Capital Association, the volume of capital flowing into startups in the first quarter of 2019 was up by 10.5 percent from the previous year, but the number of deals was down by 22.5... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), Executives Without Borders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
for the first year are projected to top $1 million. Kaplan is already planning to open two more stores in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area, and he is optimistic about the prospect of Fashion To Figure becoming a national... View Details