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- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
governments are spending money to improve their conservation efforts. But technological innovation requires funding and that is currently coming mostly from the private sector. "Most businesses don't yet... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
fellowship funds and annual gifts to the HBS Fund. The average one-year scholarship, typically called a fellowship at HBS, is $43,000, and nearly half of all MBA students benefit from these outright scholarships or grants. Students pay... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
A summary of selected new research by HBS faculty. Diversification Best Bet in Emerging Markets In today's era of global competitiveness, companies in the industrialized world have slimmed down their operations in order to focus on doing... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The latter will incorporate updates on School initiatives and provide hands-on training and resources for HBS volunteers. We are grateful to all volunteers- class correspondents, fund agents, club officers, reunion committee members, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
the MBA Program, and John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), who helped launch the School's Social Enterprise Initiative, provided substantial guidance and support. (Both now serve on O'Neill's school board.) Then came a frustrating struggle to establish a permanent site ("We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
with the herd and went into banking." But after two years working 100-hour weeks as an investment analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ) in Los Angeles, he decided that "moving money around is not what life... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
financial products or institutions, rather than look at product or company names, we should look at what functions they perform. In the classroom, we study four functions: payments, movements of money from today to tomorrow (savings and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
about $50 million a year to just cover the manufacturing, launch, and operating costs. “That’s a $20 billion market for a company that can provide a low-cost fuel alternative that keeps the satellites operating and making View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
and expertise as a former marketing executive for Ann Taylor and Nickelodeon, Cycle for Survival to date has directly funded over a dozen clinical trials and studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. "Jen was a... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town, one boy dreams of saving enough... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
Alvin J. Silk The struggle to balance career and family was all too familiar to the late Diane Doerge Wilson, whose memory is being honored with an HBS professorship funded by a gift from her husband, Alvin J. Silk. A senior consultant at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
debut in Target and Fresh Market stores. Kahawa 1893 is experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a cafe setting. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
(Above: photo by Christina Gandolfo) When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
from the office building/landlord. The benefit to the landlord was an additional amenity to retain their existing tenants and to better market vacant space to prospective tenants. The employer and landlord contributions would help defray... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
world, the AMP program underscores the necessity of a global perspective and an understanding of different cultures and markets." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "The free market is the best system for allocating resources, but never forget... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
started my first business," he says from his office in Dallas, Texas. Now, with his generous endowment of the chair held by HBS professor John A. Deighton, Brierley's involvement with the School has come full circle. A specialist in View Details