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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
into this business from the time I was thirteen, when I was given a couple of shares of stock," says the quietly intense Kingdon. "Even though the market nose-dived soon thereafter, I was taken with the idea that you could buy something... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
food—Helen Mirren (phonetically, ‘pepper’ in Hindi) and Om Puri (a popular Indian puffed bread). A page-turner that will make you hungry.” —Professor Rohit Deshpandé, on The Hundred-Foot Journey, by Richard C. Morais Excerpt Illustration by Theispot “Over the past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
fruition about two years ago when Mills's husband, Barry, a Bowdoin College graduate, was offered his dream job: the presidency of his alma mater. The couple packed up their three sons, now ages 9, 13, and 16, and left New York for what... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources
his own company. But first he embarked on a couple of ventures that fell flat. "I started those companies for the wrong reasons," he says. Everything came together in 2011, when Schrader teamed up with Harvard Kennedy School... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Helping high achievers achieve even more
run. The couple has partnered with some two dozen (and counting) universities around the country to offer millions of dollars in merit scholarships to the very best and brightest students. "Inspired by the impact our university... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
behind and couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to do something for children like her. Together, the couple launched the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation to provide scholarships and educational counseling to military children who... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, TooRituals help couples build relationships. Can they help build businesses too? (12,746 visits) Walmart's Workforce of the FutureA case study explores Walmart's plans for its workforce of the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Ximena Garcia-Rada
Ximena’s research focuses primarily on consumer behavior in the context of close, personal relationships. She considers how the experiences consumers share with their friends and family members affect those relationships. She is also investigating the ways in which... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—We propose a network-based methodology for analyzing a firm's enterprise architecture. Our methodology uses "Design Structure Matrices" (DSMs) to capture the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
undergraduate degree. I spent my first couple of years at the company in the San Francisco Bay area and London in roles across the Marketing organization, including working on brand, reputation, and social responsibility initiatives. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
also a virtual reality hit. (courtesy of Baobab Studios) Asteroids!, a sequel to Invasion!, was also a virtual reality hit. (courtesy of Baobab Studios) Research has found that as humans form emotional bonds, they subconsciously begin to mirror one another: just watch... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
remembers feeling "isolated" when she and her husband, well-known Boston attorney Fletcher ("Flash") Wiley, came to the city for graduate school - she at HBS and he at Harvard Law School. But the couple stayed on to launch their... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
church was the right move. On a typical day, the warm, affable minister might meet with a couple planning to be married, deliver communion to a housebound parishioner, help prepare a meal at a soup kitchen, and work on his weekly sermon.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
then one day in 2008, Stata contacted Giler to encourage him to check out this wireless-electricity startup he had invested in. "It's a good case for networking," Giler says. He returned to the campus a couple of years ago to discuss a... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
body to kickstart the natural immune response. “What’s become clearer over the last couple years is that cancer patients have bad dendritic cells,” Zutshi said. “They don’t have as many, and the ones that they have don’t work as well,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joshua Wyatt
One day, I will welcome people as they check-in to my hotels. OK, my hotel empire is but a single apartment now, but one day I will be able to take care of people; people who come from all over the world with many different views, hopes, dreams and desires. It is this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
independent company on the Australian stock exchange, and diversified its leadership team, which had been primarily male before she joined. “For a couple of years, it felt like we were building everything from scratch,” says Weckert, who... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Then it got worse: He fell for an audacious Ponzi scheme that swallowed up much of his fortune. A mild-mannered man who began his career as an accountant, Von Allmen was an unlikely victim, but as he told me a couple of years later, "I... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
festival goers and Red Ants Pants customers. This qualitative research, coupled with online analytics, guided our recommendations on Red Ants Pants’ brand, marketing allocation, and product expansion strategy Week 4: Las Vegas, NV Our... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship