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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
the arts are given more scrutiny. Before the revolution, you might aspire to a government post or a job with a multinational, observes Nada Shousha, a senior advisor at the IFC and EAEF vice chairwoman. After, the more prevalent mindset... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
considered the fourth sister for the protection they provide from damaging winds. Their seeds also distract birds from the corn.) Keen wades into the mass of foliage, checking the corn's progress: "Oh, cool. A little bird relative dropped us a feather." Solid and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
1992, these women employers made up almost one-fifth of all women-owned firms and accounted for 93 percent of the revenue of the women's business sector. "We're seeing an increasing number of women starting up high-potential ventures and also joining the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
observations or ask the hard questions of hopeful entrepreneurs. “I want you to think about whether you really are an entrepreneur,” he says to a young woman who hopes to launch a mirror makeup app using facial recognition technology. And... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
raised equity financing of $3.5 and $1.3 million in July and November 2008, respectively. “We have a significant database of customers and the ability to operate the Eclipse commercially under our flight certificate,” observes Herp.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
popcorn machine and dispensing soda, which makes Lopez's habit of hanging around AMC theaters a necessity. "I love, love, standing in a corner with a Diet Coke in my hand," he says. "If it's a well-run theater, it's poetry in motion. And if it's poorly run, you can't... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
industry segments that depend on the NFL." Surveying the league's 32 franchises, Grubman observes that each has arguably become a global brand in its own right."The size and complexity of the local franchise as a business has exploded in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
relationship management or ‘customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
included everything from international political conflicts to “an increasingly competitive marketplace.” Most observers assumed this latter challenge was a sign of America’s changing tastes—that the fast-casual, more ingredient- conscious... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across industries,” View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
entrepreneurship is imbedded in the structure of the family." Cherie Nursalim, manager in the corporate strategy and planning division of her family's Gaja Tunggal Group, a major Indonesian conglomerate with extensive interests in banking, industry, and trade, View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
board service about a decade ago, he observed that there was a severe lack of representation in boardrooms in Pittsburgh. “So, what are you going to do about it?” he remembers someone asking him. With that catalyst and funding from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
approach, and asks participants, especially executives, to get vulnerable in order to dig into the complexities that can’t be conveyed by a PowerPoint slide. “People tend not to share stories of a personal nature for fear of being attacked in an emotionally destructive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
States,” she observed in a recent Business History Review article. An 1890 photograph of women workers in the looping room at Ipswich Mills in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Now up and running, the “Unheard Voices” Web site offers access to a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus on caring for their families and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
efficiently, but not necessarily as effectively as in physical meetings. The opportunity to observe body language and nuanced commentary is much trickier online, to draw people in when necessary. We also miss the opportunity for casual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cofounder of the global investment firm GMO, recently observed in the context of governmental inaction on climate change, “We face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be... View Details