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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
Before she became a comedy writer, Claire Friedman (MBA 2014) followed the path of any good econ major, working at Goldman Sachs for five years and enrolling at HBS with plans to go into the business side of entertainment. While working... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing (ESM), a field course that debuted in spring 2016. “To a greater degree than in established firms, marketing and selling in entrepreneurial ventures are linked to product... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Chicago high-rise in the fall of 2019, giving even more of the city’s students the chance to experience a tailored high school public education. For Zaikos, the mission is personal, having spent most of her life in Chicago and raised her... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
listening to customers by means of ongoing two-way communication; and building organizational capabilities that delivered on the promise of their brands. From Wedgwood’s making of a large market for his... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
the carbon capture to farmers, but couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. The reason: There wasn’t a profit motive. “But then I met these organic farmers, and the bottom... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
broadcaster in the country. In 1972, L. Lowry Mays (MBA '62) bought a Texas radio station for $175,000; today his Clear Channel Communications owns 18 TV stations and 140 radio stations across the country. HBS alumni would View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
experience working with a Ukrainian supplier named Rolin Kostya, who continues to make his products under great duress. “The week I spoke to them, there had been a half dozen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
I was scared to death that everyone would be smarter than me. And they were. On the first day of class we were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
the company’s name and philosophy. “The name Intelligent Mexican Marketing was [developed] because we wanted to challenge how Latinos were perceived in the United States. Our objective as a company was to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
much as possible, and for him I think the Vendée Globe is a question of doing it right and making it to the finish.” Doing it right and finishing the job, no matter what the adversity. That’s Rich Wilson.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
biases that make predictable what otherwise so commonly emerge as surprises in business and society. They outline six danger signals that suggest when a predictable surprise may be imminent and provide View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
I knew there had to be a hitch when HBS invited its alumni volunteers — fund agents, reunion organizers, and my fellow Class Notes correspondents — back to campus in early November for two days of free food and learning. Sure enough, when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Be Our Guest
couldn’t make much of an impact in a huge hotel. Instead, he began inspecting the cleaners’ supervisors. “I learned that you manage just one level down,” he says. “If you don’t, it takes away the opportunity... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
to make high-stakes decisions that affect a lot of people, and you have to act quickly or you're in trouble," Carpenter explains. "Managing an Internet firm is just like that." Despite the challenge, under... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
tracking a handful of things, I enjoyed it. And it was entirely a singular thing, I didn't really even share it with friends, I wasn't making public statements of, I promise my... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
to build a world-class faculty by attracting and developing outstanding junior faculty members. Building on our amazing fellowship program, we can do more to make the School accessible to students with... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
matters the most is the dream, and some expectation it could actually happen. What makes a country, or an economy, great is when everyone believes they have a chance at... View Details