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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
spirituality that was very palpable in India. And in the Q&A, they said they were going to do a sequel. And I said, "I want to be in that sequel. I have no idea where you're riding, but it looks fascinating." Long story short, I was View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
question was how to do it. At Indian electronics firm HCL Technologies, incoming CEO Vineet Nayar inherited a once-great technology company that had lost its way by the time he took over in 2005. The company had steadily lost market share... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
lucky few stumble into the role of their dreams, but hundreds of millions are disappointed. What if, when looking for a job, we could make more informed choices to better select the opportunity we seize? What if the power to move along... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
treat non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Dapansutrile aims to selectively target the immune system’s intense inflammatory response to the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection that can lead to a “cytokine storm.” As such, it is well positioned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge — and little discussed. HBS professor Debora L. Spar addressed the market realities of adoption and scientific conception at the 2003 Alumni Health-Care... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
vision by creating highly skilled African workers who will attract foreign investment and help build the businesses of the future. Launched in 2014, the company has received $180 million in venture-backed funding to date. Andela offers a straightforward exchange: It... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
Meeting the Press: Dean Jay Light accompanied by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, answers reporters' questions I am honored by the selection and enthusiastic about the task ahead,” Jay Light said at an April 24 press conference with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
margin of about one dollar to repay the loan and earn a profit. The LCAE team is in the process of selecting countries in which to operate, examining factors such as market size, regulation, and access to... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Fall Reunions
the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for catching up with old... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism edited by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani (Edward Elgar Inc.) This selection of articles includes historical research on the role of entrepreneurship in creating global capitalism; the cultural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning service firm. Type in your name... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
company she launched in 1993 to build wireless infrastructure in emerging market countries], in which he was also an investor, board member, and advisor. "Howard is perhaps the smartest, most humble, most inspiring, and most ethical... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
world, the AMP program underscores the necessity of a global perspective and an understanding of different cultures and markets." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "The free market is the best system for allocating resources, but never forget... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
increases of 30 percent annually for the last five years. It holds 60 percent of market share in a number of U.S. cities, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. The company came to life at HBS. Explains Asher, who... View Details