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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
everything was being paid for in cash, the fact that you had all these banks popping up on Brickell Avenue, which is known as kind of the Wall Street of Miami, that were just there to take dirty money. You would pay people before money... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
power of an economy based on reciprocal giving rather than cash exchange. After that the group decided the project's most important quality was its sacred potential to educate others about Native peoples... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Chernilovskiy and Eykher, Kazzinc’s CFO, were suddenly facing an urgent need to reduce costs and improve cash flows. At the same time, they were growing acutely aware of the industry’s inequity: Miners (who produce raw materials) and... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The company is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
everything telescoped down to the short-term earnings. So CEOs became obsessed with the short-term results? We shifted from looking at business fundamentals, like growth in earnings per share, revenue generation, gains in market share, View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
both physically and mentally," says the energetic Meyer. While she finds her new post all-consuming, Meyer says it is a thrilling time to be involved in her country's government. South Africans are clamoring for leadership that will ensure the prompt View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
degree in aerospace engineering and several years at a real estate development and investment firm. But they collaborated on multiple ventures over the last 17 years. The most recent is NowAccount, a fintech startup that helps small... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
$140 million. Rogers offered three other specific tips for keeping a business afloat at this time. “Focus on generating new revenue through new products or services, get expenses under control, and load your balance sheet with View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would leave little time for community... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me about Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss by Tyra Banks (OPM 42, 2012) and Carolyn London TarcherPerigree Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, share what they’ve learned View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Cornell University’s Institute on Employment and Disability, in order to make it more accessible to other organizations interested in implementing the program. “We have now built a brand, knowledge, and a way of working with the talent,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
and read a twelve-month operating cash flow statement. Many HBS readers will recognize "The R&R Case," by HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Introduced in the 1980s, the case focuses on View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios