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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
cancer patients around the world. “Don’t wait for a crisis to do something amazing with your life,” she says. “Ask yourself today: How can I make a difference?” Giusti, who is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
opportunity amid countless obstacles. The sale of ed tech products has been on the rise in recent years—with an estimated $150 billion in global expenditures on digital learning in 2018, a number predicted, pre-pandemic, to double by... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
agricultural product both domestically and abroad. northeastern us EIQ unifies public and private financing with a project-based approach to make more energy projects happen. EIQ's global, geo-coded solution... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
appreciate that legal matters are an integral and manageable part of doing business. Organizationally, managers need to facilitate frequent, two-way communication with legal counsel and provide them with enough business information to elicit opinions that View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
recently launched a new chain called "FAO Schweetz," which Eyler describes as "the world's first fully animated candy store." By 1999, he says, the company will begin expanding to key capitals around the world. It's View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
their combined creative synergy made the team a runner-up in the 2013 Social Enterprise Initiative new venture competition. “It’s tough, and sometimes I feel like I’m building a cathedral that could take... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
of product management for search and data at AT&T Interactive, then joined Elsevier, where he is using search to make the world a better place. “I am driven by a passion to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
intelligence will make security better, faster, and smarter—both for the data scientist at a security firm and for the nation-state attacker. (Sadly, A.I. doesn’t differentiate.) So it is imperative that we... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
(photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) (photo by Sami Yenigun/NPR) Much has happened in the ten years since Sal Khan (MBA 2003) started making short videos to tutor his niece in math, an offhand effort that snowballed into Khan Academy, an online... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Winning Combinations
Photos by Steve Boljonis As HBS bids adieu to the last MBA class of the century, the Bulletin offers a window onto the Class of '99 with profiles of six graduating students. Like many of their classmates, these individuals sparkle with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
The Evolving Case Method
did?” The students were then asked to share what they wrote with the person next to them. Afterward, the entire class engaged in a discussion about what makes responding to moral challenges so difficult.... View Details
Keywords: the case method
- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
Videolicious (a platform for making high-end video) respectively. Despite their success, the pair couldn’t help wondering what it was like to be a female entrepreneur without HBS connections. In 2016 they... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
An investment in meaningful results
million in over 200 programs and schools in 2013. The organization's 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief raised more than $50 million to help victims of the storm rebuild and recover. Robin Hood takes a venture philanthropy approach to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sunshine State
filling vending machines after his textile-equipment business collapsed. The younger Greene ended up making a fortune in Southern California real estate; later, his success at subprime hedging earned him the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance but had always dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
would make him a learned man indeed. It seems LaMagna never met an offbeat scheme (drive-ins as discos) or gadget (square lasagna pans the length of lasagna noodles) that he didn’t like or want to turn into... View Details