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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
have plenty of money in my pocket and healthy maize for my family to eat," Mustapha said then. "My children are already looking healthier—I can barely lift my eight-year-old. He's the fattest in the village." On a continent more likely to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
(MBA 1984) Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Associates Driving against Type I passed on CarGurus back when it was a young company. It is now public and trading at $4.7 billion. At the time, the company was raising money at a very high price... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
operators or planners. That's fine, but there is more demand for people who can get results and make money for an organization. Maintain professional involvement if you decide to reduce your work commitments due to family. Keeping up a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
rootless too and how its mobility could serve the public good." Gallatin successfully arranged financing for the Louisiana Purchase and for the War of 1812, despite President Thomas Jefferson's push to reduce spending and eliminate the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
because they’re so committed to what they’ve already built their base on. BA: Snigdha, who is your primary audience? And what is the gap you’re trying to fill with the Juggernaut? SS: Our primary market is people of South Asian descent living in the United States. As... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
management tools for the city. He stayed on as an advisor to Menino, rebuilding the city’s 24-hour hotline and exploring how mobile apps could be utilized to make reporting issues more convenient for residents. In 2010, Osgood and Nigel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
joining the mobile network every month,” says Mittal. “Mobile phones have moved from an aspirational product to a mass product in a decade.” At the Tata Group, engineers are at work on a $2,000 car, the next step up for the millions of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
fundraisers for relief operations, or offering free goods and services, there are countless instances of HBS graduates who mobilized to help. Henry M. ("Hank") Paulson, Jr. (MBA '70), chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, was one of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
(MBA ’01), a 34-year-old, well-connected political neophyte and the only Iraqi war veteran running for Congress as a Republican. “Having a guy who was on the ground and had an extremely active role in Iraq, and who came back and made a lot of View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
efficiently, accelerating the business model, and building the leadership team.” Howard started at the mobile brokerage company Robinhood in 2019. Tapped to help it scale and manage its operations teams, she is responsible for everything... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
comfort and privacy of your own home, and enjoy. And that's just the start, as the "anywhere, anytime" push to view movies and other content on mobile devices continues to grow. According to one Cisco report, smartphone video viewing will... View Details