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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
on Wingspanbank.com brings many important issues to the fore. Wingspanbank is an Internet-only bank that markets itself with the claim, "If your bank could start over, this is what it would be." Created in a record four months and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
organization dedicated to improving educational access, quality, and outcomes for children from underprivileged backgrounds. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, the foundation launched a crowdfunding campaign that has raised... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
about great leadership and his new book, What Great Service Leaders Know and Do. “Both the lecture portion and the case discussion were very well-received,” says club president Joseph Lo (GMP 3, 2007) “The main debate, as directed by Len, was really about whether the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
every day is the conflict between helping our existing customers and our new users. Our existing users want their apps to work well at scale, they want more speed and more features. On the other hand, new users want the product to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
group of successful entrepreneurs who shared their experiences of launching and sustaining a minority-owned business. “Start planning early. Save money. And go back to your community,” said L. Londell McMillan, president and CEO of L.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
out.” Gertsacov has clearly taken full advantage of his time here. A star HBS rugby and ice hockey player, he’s a gourmet chef whose Thai cooking lessons earned his section $1,600 in its charity auction. He also launched a monthly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
to the company. In 1988, Binder was named CEO. That same year, Amgen's R&D efforts began to pay off as the company launched its first product, Epogen, which stimulates red blood cell production and thus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
2011) brings those two very different cultures together at Rock Health, a San Francisco–based full-service seed fund launched during her second year at HBS with classmate and medical doctor Nate Gross (MBA 2011). (Gross continues to serve... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
other countries. "Many product innovations, which benefit both the schools and IBM, have resulted from this initiative," Kanter stresses. Kanter has also studied corporations that have successfully launched... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for leaders. For example, globally dispersed businesses can't reserve key leadership roles for people from exclusive groups; leadership must become inclusive, or fail. Leaders must learn to collaborate in a world of networked organizations, lead for creativity rather... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
services.” At HBS, cities and the environment are also a focus of a number of faculty members, especially those affiliated with the newly launched Business and Environment Initiative (BEI). Established to increase understanding about the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Suisse Group), Orit Gadiesh (Bain), Bill Foote (USG), John Hess (Amerada Hess), and Allan Moss (Macquarie Bank Limited) among them — who are using what they learned at Soldiers Field to make a real difference. Within days of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, for... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 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 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditions with you. This guide gives tips about turning everyday ingredients and products into a simple, two-minute ritual in four steps: purify, polish, prep, and nourish. But this book is also about a lifestyle, how you eat and sleep.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
foundation for entrepreneurial pursuits, in 1998 they launched GoLite, a company that manufactured and sold lightweight, high-performance outdoor clothing and gear. Kim took the reins as CEO in 2000, and the company quickly became a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
of success were no longer the same as they were a decade ago. "Asian wages are rising rapidly," Porter said. Other nations are restructuring their economies and offering an alternative to Asia as an outsourcing location. The key today is View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes