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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
example, the Rock Center Fellows Program subsidizes students working on an existing startup or launching their own, and the Career and Professional Development Fellows program aids career changers, such as those interested in the luxury View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
new—and increasingly popular—model for doing good and making money. As a venture capitalist nonprofit, Sustainable America is funding entrepreneurs who will make the food and fuel sectors more sustainable and anticipating returns that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
(photo by Leah Fasten) My impetus to start my own company was so somebody else couldn’t control my destiny. My first company was Cameesa, an apparel company with a Kickstarter model. There were many failures: We didn’t know what we were doing; 2007 to 2008 was really... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans, who both study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
as they interacted with the theater’s new amenities. On a whiteboard in Habeeb’s editing room, the outline of the IDEO case, drawn after shooting but before editing, remains. Starting from the pedagogical goals, it sketches the narrative arc of any View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
Leimsider has helped Safe Passage clarify its strategic goals. “We have a very specific understanding of what our job is. Our mission here is not simply to do as much good as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
units a year, but back when volumes were small, one full container of product would be everything I would have to sell for a quarter. And I had an entire container of goods that came damaged. I had to call up the customers who I fought so... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
need to address so that I can get back on my A-game. But the process of writing the book made it challenging for you to be a good leader. It was such an irony. When I was writing about what I call the “pitfalls of doing,” which can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
Synthesis, a leadership assessment and development company. She’s seen a new generation of leaders who have grown up in a culture comfortable with personal therapy turn the C-suite stigma into a strength. “Getting help for the things you are less View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an approach he says that is both a View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
(photos courtesy of Sunny Stroeer) “When your Monday morning looked like this you know it’s going to be a good week,” Suzanne “Sunny” Stroeer (MBA 2011) wrote on Instagram recently. Her view: Sunrise from the snowy summit of Torreys Peak... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
McKinsey before coming to HBS. Beck, cofounder and CEO of beauty retailer Bluemercury, tells Uberoi, a member of the student-run Retail & Luxury Goods Club, how she went from consultant to entrepreneur to retail maven, with 70-plus stores... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
Haring, and Jeff Koons, among many others. “I like to collect works by artists I’ve worked with and who’ve been good friends.” + ONLINE web-only content Advice for aspiring art collectors from Marc Weidner (MBA 2007) Advice to novice art... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
size, scale, and scope. Today, we see a specialization in activity: There are those who are really good at supporting large numbers of relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs, and then there are those that specialize in scaling businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to Acquire Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Nancy Hua Dai
Ian Lee, Whirlpool's VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei Sanyo's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Regulation; Cross-border Investment; Brand Names; State-owned Enterprise (SOE); Appliances; White Goods; Consumer Durables; Negotiation; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; State Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; China
Esty, Benjamin C., and Nancy Hua Dai. "Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to Acquire Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company." Harvard Business School Case 216-019, October 2015. (Revised September 2016.)
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
percent of Americans believed online dating was a good way to meet people, a 15 percent increase from a 2005 survey.) All of these online dating companies were selling similar things to different niches of the dating world. This first... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Those ideas include Ely’s research showing that good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
one economic lesson from the crisis is that government support really works. Look at where we are today with inflation and supply chain problems—I’m not saying those are good things, but we certainly are not living with a hangover from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
well as a strategic one. The tactical question is around the math of making added investments and the short-term impact it would have on more volume and perhaps more margin. Assuming the answer is a good one, the strategic question would... View Details
Keywords: April White