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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (HBS 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality preschools that focused on View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
firm’s approach differed from BCG in that it kept its work closely held and its ideas proprietary, thus earning itself a reputation for being secretive. In another departure, Bain vowed the firm would work with only one client per... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
from the South and West sides of Chicago. It was part coaching, part social work—there were discipline and academic issues, gangs, guns, and homelessness. Over the five years I coached the program, 25 of our players went on to earn... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Academic This is an overview of the state of global history in different world regions. The book’s chapters provide regional surveys of the practice of global history on all continents, review some of the research in four core fields of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
leadership and changed the basic structure of Wall Street, as outlined in this excerpt from the chapter “Revolution in Investment Banking.” During their time together working on the Ford offering [in 1956, the largest-ever IPO to date], Whitehead had View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni. But the View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
then methodically proceeded to rationalize P&G's cost structure, sold some businesses, acquired Clairol, and delivered upside revenues and earnings surprises within months. Rick and A.G. are two shining examples of how capable company... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
consumption sharply, which will provoke further business contraction, and so on. And even those workers who have not been laid off—the vast majority—have more reason to be worried than before (because of rising unemployment), more reason to expect a weakening economy... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Blumkin also developed special expertise and a solid reputation in experience marketing. That, and the networking skills she had also learned at HBS, ultimately earned her a position on the roster of Super Bowl XLVIII. "My husband and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica expects to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. In an age... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
cited skills developed at HBS as critical to their entrepreneurial success. The survey also showed that alumni who were self-employed had often followed a traditional career path in the first decade after earning an MBA and only later had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Beerport) Scheid relates the story of his escape from Bridgeport, Ohio, a dirt-poor, coal-mining, steel-mill town that more than earned its nickname Beerport. Very few people ever left the town, for sons followed fathers into dead-end... View Details