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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
dedication to a sense of what is just and fair that explains why she now finds herself in the trenches of local politics, fighting to shift a culture of patronage and mismanagement that has been decades in the making. Located in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
company he started has been in business less than 25 years. That's a relative blink of an eye compared with some of the enduring Fortune 500 powerhouses that can trace their roots back to the turn of the century - firms that helped make... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy officer at an insurtech View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; and knowing when it’s time to find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
hotels. Set among pristine waters and beaches, backed by stunning volcanic mountain islands, the resorts boast romantic over-the-water bungalows, luxurious amenities, and the highest ratings from guests and travel industry experts. Bailey’s View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
other stakeholders in society. If academic critiques were not discouraging enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. “There’s an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, and from customers — the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
world you are about to enter is far different than the one I faced after graduation.” Ellen M. Hancock, chair and CEO of Exodus Communications, Inc., delivered frank remarks about women’s role in business in her keynote speech. “I’m a female CEO of a public View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Mingshan. Imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Yin discovered his true vocation in the early 1990s, after the liberalization of the Chinese economy. In just fifteen years he has built up a $900 million business. Last year his... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
irrelevant,” the prime minister says, simultaneously making an entrance and scoring major marital points. Mareva Grabowski Mitsotakis (left) spent a dozen years in investment banking before launching Zeus+Dione, a line of clothing and accessories that showcase Greece’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
policy has largely played out is that companies have fought for something very narrow that they want out of government—one particular industry gets one specific tax consideration, for example. It’s unrealistic to suggest that View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
and fir, but with an oddly shaped pockmark in the middle where a patch of cedars has been logged. Their replacements have not yet reached the height of their elder peers. Eamer was born in Nanaimo, located across the Strait of Georgia from Vancouver, the son of a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
moment happened, I feel like I was prepared from an entrepreneurial perspective to, you know, grasp it and try to build a company out of it. DM: Talk about that lightbulb moment. Was it actually an aha revelation? One night you're at the... View Details