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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
“a group of stodgy old bankers with a unique proposition: Let’s set up a fund that will invest in promising young companies, often companies with little or no sales and with little management... View Details
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Chertavian founded Year Up. With 15 U.S. cities and counting, Year Up seeks to help young urban adults reach their full potential through a one-year program that provides hands-on IT and professional skills development, college credits,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
keenly interested in professional development, but they are also less loyal in the traditional sense, ready to jump ship when their employers fail to meet expectations. Yet too many companies are falling short in their efforts to recruit... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
marriage. Communication and compromise is key. Don’t take for granted that just because the buyer is young they don’t know what they are talking about or that it will be an easy sell. Most young buyers are... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Over the years Jones watched as Culture Shift honored people like Peter Lewis (MBA 1985), managing partner at Wentworth Partners; Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of McAfee; Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO at TaskRabbit; and, most recently, Deidre... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Child’s Play
Tak: Apps for childhood development. The Over in the Meadow Animated Storybook is an interactive, animated, and educational product, the first to be rolled out by a start-up called iMomConnect. It’s designed to help busy parents teach View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Education Sector
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) asked students to describe their career interests and what they are up to this summer. Name: Mary Li, MBA 2018 Current Position: Summer Fellow Company and Location: KIPP Bay Area Schools,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's... View Details
Carlos Reines Gonzalez
Carlos is the President and Co-founder of RubiconMD. Originally from Spain, he’s passionate about leveraging technology to drive change in healthcare and improve patient lives. Prior to RubiconMD, Carlos led a division at Telefonica, one of the largest telecom View Details
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Jack Perkowski
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring View Details
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Jess Eng | MBA
technology and business: Being a public school student for 13 years and working with the San Francisco School District throughout high school, I witnessed the potential of partnerships with both local businesses and big tech companies to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
consumer goods, jobs, and global markets. Since selling the company to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998, Lemann and his partners, Carlos A. Sicupira (OPM 9, 1984) and Marcel H. Telles (OPM 10, 1985) have focused on acquisitions that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) (courtesy Matthew Breitfelder) Young Hee Yoo (MBA 2017) (courtesy Young Hee Yoo) View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company he founded in 1995 and led through 2005. He set out to build a company with a “good soul,” he says. “We were like the U.N.—we had one of everything—Hilton, Hyatt,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded
Anthony Harris (MBA 1979) is engineering a more secure world as president and CEO of Campbell Security Equipment Company (CSECO), the world’s leader in portable contraband-detection equipment. Devices made by the Alameda, California-based... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
statisticians, likely skewing the data (Hauslohner, 2018). Notably, Ernst and Young (2017) also reported that 74 percent of respondents support an increased focus on diversity and inclusion (D&I) in today’s workplaces, and 72 percent... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
As a young analyst, early in her career, Sonja Hoel Perkins (MBA 1993) had a nose for deals, according to the book Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, by Julian... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
company in Atlanta, Georgia called ADDO. It’s a leadership consulting firm. We partnered with Chick-fil-A to create one of the nation’s largest programs, called Chick-fil-A Leader Academy, which teaches next-generation leaders how to... View Details