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- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Alzheimer’s research. At McCance’s urging, they based the organization on venture capital principles: locate visionaries and invest in them; run a lean, frugal institution; and take the risk on bold ideas with enormous promise. Having... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
Esquel Group is a leading textile and apparel manufacturer, didn't shy away from the fact that her industry is typically regarded as anything but socially conscious. Acknowledging that “most people think of us as running sweatshops,” Yang... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Transforming the wine industry for black South Africans
Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) discovered that only 2 percent of South Africa’s $3 billion wine industry was owned by black South Africans. As CEO of Heritage Link Brands, she now runs the largest import business of these wines, bringing them to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
running teaching programs, and conducting research. Most of these activities have had a very important component: developing our own faculty. I'm sure that whatever we do in the future in the global arena will have that same goal of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me that View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
president’s office at the University of Oklahoma. “My mantra was that I wanted to lead, to serve, to grow,” he says. Running a university met all three criteria, so in 2009 he took the helm of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and after... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
how the animals move — the humorous strut of the ostrich, the clumsy run of the hippo, the scamper of the mongoose. Leopards, buffalo, hyenas, rhinos, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, crocodiles, waterbucks, impalas, and pink flamingos also... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
encourages others to "be passionate," and to "collect good people around you." The words gain credence through Kraft because he is a living example of his playbook. The Kraft Group is a family business run by Kraft and sons Jonathan (MBA... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
campaign managers generally choose one of two strategies. One is to prod radio stations to run a hit single from an album as many times a day as possible - what's known as creating "push" in the marketplace. The other is to drum up fan... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
COO—he followed his passion for music and took the helm at Savage Beast Technologies (SBT), a cash-strapped San Francisco start-up. How bad were things at SBT? “The company wasn’t running on fumes,” Kennedy recalls. “The fumes were gone.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his coauthor chronicle the canal’s economic and political history, from the great economic dividends of its first quarter-century to the turnover of the canal to Panama in 1999. The United States had View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
Field's board, worked with McCarter on numerous civic projects when McCarter was at Booz-Allen and later recruited him to run the Field. Similarly, the Smithsonian's Bob Fri joined the natural history museum at the request of board... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
disasters, like hurricanes, are predictable. Others, such as earthquakes, are not. “I will get a text from the guy who runs international response for us, 9 p.m. on a Friday night, saying there was just an earthquake and that we should do... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
should it start: at the grassroots with the student groups with which they are familiar, but which often have small budgets, or at the top with the university administration, where the company will face more bureaucratic hurdles but potentially find a larger audience?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
a family business, her team spoke to more than 1,100 CEOs, eventually finding striking differences in managerial styles and productivity in firms run by family members relative to their external counterparts. Over the past several years,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
school districts and vending machine operators to reclaim vending space made vacant by the new federal guidelines against unhealthy, sugary beverages. The profit margin may be slimmer, but it could be made up by volume. —Stefano Falconi (MBA 1987) Most beverage... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
your travels? Ken: Yeah. I think they are manifold quite frankly, from running out of gas in very remote areas to what do you do? I was in Bolivia. This was probably my longest, most challenging day. So I was literally riding through the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing a new economic formula based on stimulating consumer consumption. More recently, there was an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice
executive; and Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) will explore strategies to manage mobile employees. Also presenting will be executive coach Patti Hunt Dirlam, HBS professors Joseph Badaracco and Kathleen McGinn, and career consultant Sarah Stamboulie. The fall series View Details