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- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
March, the news was grim. The significant economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic stretched the global gap by an entire generation. “Last year, we were a mere 99.5 years from real gender equity,” says Heather Stark (MBA 1999). “Now, one... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
for our ten-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) to Mexico, Santa Ana del Valle, located in one of Mexico’s poorest states, is the unassuming launchpad for a trip that will end with tours of several multibillion-dollar corporations and... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Barron (MBA 1972) Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Dance, dance revolution: “I studied modern dance in college; the originality of the choreography attracted me, but it... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
unheard of to a time when women shape decision-making at the highest corporate levels. With the arrival of women students in the 1950s, when the School partnered with the Radcliffe Management Training Program, Associate Professor... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
along with Frank Batten's (MBA '52) Landmark Communications (owner today of the Weather and Travel Channels) and David R. Graham's (MBA '64) Cablecasting Ltd. in Canada. In later years, W. Don Cornwell's (MBA '71) Granite Broadcasting View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix of View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
a brand that resonates with children and parents — and even grandparents — alike. While the company has experienced significant volatility in recent years, LEGO has maintained its position in the top five toy brands for the last twenty... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
level of accomplishment aren’t eager for others to know. Few women, and few women of color, have created multimillion-dollar brands in senior corporate positions, legendary entrepreneurial environments, and startups. Hilliard’s fearless... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
a portfolio that has reversed years of financial losses. “Atlantic Media is one of the only legacy companies that has made a successful transition to digital,” adds Perlmutter. “Their corporate strategy is inherently tied in with doing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human need for social and View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
critical opinions about the company’s management and wary of a corporate takeover, 26-year-old Warwick launched a successful takeover bid that was worth about $1.5 billion in US dollars. Just three years after Warwick’s takeover, the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren McFarlan, coauthor of the fifth edition of Corporate Information Systems Management: The Issues Facing Senior Executives. These economies have greatly encouraged the consolidations that are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details