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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
banker knew she was eminently qualified, yet such opportunities seemed to evade her. “Everybody wants somebody with previous public board experience or who has been a CEO or CFO at a publicly traded company,” she says. In Dozie’s view,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
current events really are helping us all see that society is not working for a lot of people. And the question I get a lot is, well, should I go be a product manager at Twitter and really learn some of the skills of the trade first and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
data impacting strategy, Cunningham notes, allowing her to see the cause and effect almost in real time. “I can look at the trade implications, the service time and labor hour implications, and implications for our customer satisfaction... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
language you can imagine.” To sharpen his business skills, Hustead traded his cowboy boots for loafers and traveled to Boston for a three-week OPM session every year for three years. “Most businesses don’t know how or where they’re making... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Tanzania, or they go see the pyramids of Egypt. They go see Victoria Falls in Zambia or Zimbabwe. Or they watch CNN, or they watch National Geographic. And when they do talk about certain countries that are like the bad news affairs, like... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
of two years in exchange for partial sponsorship of my degree. The hours were intense. I also had this amazing new baby at home, and I was still nursing. So I asked for permission during my first few months to travel on consulting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a Cabinet-level position — minister of View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
private sector. She'd been living in New York City when she started the job, enjoying all the city has to offer, but had moved back to Egypt to get a ground-level view of the Fund's work. I didn't talk to Enan again until the summer of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
limited? Do you seek new avenues for expansion? Is the timing opportune to consider such a quest? Fenno includes a broad range of diversification options supported by numerous practical examples of companies of all sizes that have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had been struggling with how to frame... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of business plans from alumni starting... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that employs 1,150 workers worldwide and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new... View Details