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- 19 Sep 2016
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Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
Philipp Saumweber (MBA 2006) started Sundrop Farms to bring sustainable horticulture to the arid world, growing high-value crops using seawater and sunlight and bringing jobs to communities that previously had no agriculture sector. In this View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Feedback
June 2016 (Cover illustration by Victo Ngai) Our new podcast Not everything we learn as we’re assembling the Bulletin makes it into print. Our alumni interview subjects often have more to say—additional perspectives or personal... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
independent immigration attorneys review the applications. The company also helps the client prepare for the interview and even celebrates the final approval with them—all at a fraction of the cost of a personal immigration attorney,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
For more on his life and career, explore these articles and videos: John C. Whitehead, Who Led Effort to Rebuild After 9/11, Dies at 92 New York Times Social Enterprise Visionary HBS Alumni Bulletin Interview with John Whitehead, MBA 1947... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
loved when they were kids.” Another former student, Frans Johansson (MBA ’00), is now an entrepreneur and the author of The Medici Effect, a best-selling book that focuses on creativity at the intersection of different fields, cultures, and industries. “Frans View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
from throughout their first year to on-site, customer-related projects with companies around the world. Before their trip, Franklin’s six-person team tested their research methodology in interviews with Boston-area teens and parents.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains Ormeci. Team members conducted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
Moreover, the deans had reason to be optimistic because the leading edge of change was already under way, and program changes like the ones described in the book, despite being challenging, could be achieved through individual and collective action. Walking back to my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
McKinsey and applied again. "I think what sealed the deal was that I was invited for an interview. I was working in Singapore at the time, so I flew to Cambridge. The initial question in any interview is always, 'How are you today?' I... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
group of the unit's most highly respected employees to interview colleagues and internal and external customers. They then report to their leaders what they have learned about the organization. After gathering profiles of over 150... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Candy That Is Good for You
Caron Proschan (MBA 2007) is founder and CEO of Simply Gum, maker of natural chewing gum and breath mints. In this interview she talks about the market opportunities for natural, eco-friendly candy products. “I started my company because... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
And it’s about more than just a hybrid schedule: People want flexibility in where and when they work. Meanwhile, Bernard and Carbonell continue to set the Friday vibe at Primary.com. Asked to look back at their calendars for the previous Friday, Bernard says she did a... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
week when we announced the project to the public, after two years of pouring in sweat, blood, and tears. The public's reaction to Breakwater Chicago was overwhelmingly positive, and I spent the entire week running (literally!) from View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
easy. It has more to do with the relationship between joy and accomplishment. A number of years ago I interviewed the novelist John Irving, who reported that he often spent twelve hours a day writing. I asked him why he put in such long... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this amazing rise, drawing on over 500 View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
commitment to social impact. He also wanted to know what motivated it, as well of its ultimate impact. In March 2016, Stevenson and a team of researchers launched a project to better understand and communicate that impact. To date, the team has View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
research centers and offices. Interest in field research is rising. For example, Raffaella Sadun, the Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration, interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
markets that don't yet exist. How then can managers identify and assess market potential? The simple answer is that you must "sense" a market's potential by actually being where the technology is emerging. More traditional market research and planning methods rely on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
courtroom at the same time.” Women were just beginning to gain momentum in the professional world when Snyder enrolled at Case Western Reserve University law school. There, her androgynous first name and stellar academic record led to an View Details