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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
The only way to truly appreciate what you have is to work for it," says Roy W. Simmons, the 82-year-old chairman of Utah-based Zions Bancorporation, one of the most successful bank holding companies in the country. Simmons speaks from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- News
Is Social Media Actually Helping Your Company’s Bottom Line?
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Rumi, the company has grown into a successful for-profit social enterprise that ships spices directly from farmers in Afghanistan to a certification plant in Turkey, then to their Chicago office for distribution. In addition to Jung,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Apr 2014
- News
Making “Freemium” Work
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
“pose an existential risk for the US.” Addressing why capitalism isn’t working, Dalio notes that the system now operates “in a way in which people and companies find it profitable to have policies and make View Details
Keywords: capitalism
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
trying to protect the forest,” he stresses. The company uses quarter-inch taps and marks the position of the tap on each tree every year to avoid re-tapping in the same place twice. “We adhere strictly to best practices for forestry,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
rotation was tough but enjoyable. "I liked the juxtaposition of discussing a marketing case in Aldrich and then crossing the river to see a patient in Cambridge," he says. This year, as part of an HBS field study, Okezie has formulated a business plan for AccessMED, a... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
full-price sales, a decrease in lost sales, and a decline in costs due to a reduction in excess inventory—along with up to a 95 percent reduction in manual labor. As Syrup expands, Theuerkauf and Stockmann are facing the same challenges all founders do: meeting the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 May 2023
- News
Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas
As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
experience.” Sophie Bai is the founder and CEO of B.A.I. Technologies, a biotech company based in Cambridge that holds various patented technologies to treat skin diseases. Brianna Bai is a member of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn’t end in... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and advocating for women. Lang entered the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
with the persistent group, Santulli finally said yes. Allard and his partners launched Marquis Jet in January 2002, selling 245 jet cards for an average of $150,000 each during that first year and 1,000 in 2003. As hoped, the company... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
constituted the center of my world.” It wasn’t easy to be gay in the 1970s—not that it ever was. Anita Bryant was spewing vitriol, Harvey Milk was murdered in November 1978, and six months later I was ostracized and driven out of my View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
carbon-free electricity generation, transportation, and industrial technologies over the next decades. The earliest companies to incorporate sustainable technologies, products, and practices into their... View Details