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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
private sector. She'd been living in New York City when she started the job, enjoying all the city has to offer, but had moved back to Egypt to get a ground-level view of the Fund's work. I didn't talk to Enan again until the summer of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
France as an example of a country with an investment mindset that is too short term. How would a government design a more patient approach? What you often see is government giving out a large initial outlay of money without first saying,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
depends heavily on his close aide, Deputy COO Kay Wallace (MBA '90). The pair constitutes a formidable one-two punch when things need to get done immediately - as has been the case daily for some years now. Both are from the South and cite a desire to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
very important marker for COVID-19. When they debuted, smart watches seemed like sort of silly pieces of technology people used to count 10,000 steps, but they are becoming very important in giving early warning signs about dangerous... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Microsoft's online advertising business, began steering the company on a dramatically new course last year. In September 2013, Acxiom unveiled the beta version of a free website called AbouttheData.com, which gives individual consumers an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
Macy's and Fortunoff in the 1970s and 1980s, she helped usher in a new consumer trend: designer housewares. "I was going to Italy to import ceramics, China to import baskets, and India to import rugs. I saw myself as a kind of Marco Polo," she says exuberantly,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
year, gives alumni exclusive access to hundreds of positions, and it is searchable by industry, region, salary, and more. This year the Job Bank will add a much wider range of opportunities specifically for more senior executives,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
bird’s-eye view of the playing field where his team celebrated last fall’s World Series triumph over the Detroit Tigers. On October 27, Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright struck out Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge to end the game, giving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
transition from HBS back to the real world, encouraging classmates to regularly reflect on their choices and continually examine their priorities. In the fall, Wallace will join Boston Consulting Group’s Washington, D.C., office. “Thanks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
complexity of pulling together idea, sound, and movement into a unified whole. The squirrel skitters to the edge of our path, thinks better of it, and darts back to safety—a smart decision, since Langford never saw it. Which isn’t to say... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
1993) (Clovercroft Publishing) After decades of success as an entrepreneur building multimillion-dollar companies and creating multimillion-dollar deals, Rodgers decided to give back and devote his time and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
single woman doing buying that old farm?”) to a firmly established member of the community. With a long salt-and-pepper braid snaking down her back and surrounded by her sheep, cows, and land, it’s hard to picture Reade in her previous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Institute founded in honor of the iconic Chicago industrialist, which supports entrepreneurial projects that give back to the community or world. “I realized that project was me,” Skeete Tatum recalls.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
covered in Parts 2 and 3 to specific, challenging boardroom conversations: for example, giving critical feedback to the CEO or handling a difficult media conversation. Delivering Alpha: Lessons from 30 Years of Outperforming Investment... View Details