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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
after leaving HBS and have continued their entrepreneurial journey in the marketplace. Will this year’s new ventures follow in their footsteps? You be the judge. Here’s a quick look at the traditional and social enterprise business plan... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
all of their shopping and communicating from there. Our services - password management, merchant mail, and find and compare - stick to the consumer, following them wherever they shop on the Web." With companies like Brodia breaking down... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
can even use those responses to choose who will open the case — the cold call meets the “polled” call — to ensure that important viewpoints get heard. The two students further tell me that good old Baker Library has become a Nirvana of View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Japan Crisis
The HBS Alumni Web site facilitated information-sharing regarding alumni and conditions in Japan following that country’s March earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the MBA Classes of 2005–2012 launched an View Details
Keywords: disaster relief
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
with in-depth analysis and specific recommendations, many of which will be detailed in a special March 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. Alumni respondents received an early preview of the results and followed the announcement both... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
building and launching satellites. But one thing I’ve been interested in is, have VCs gotten too caught up in chasing the cheap experiment sectors? Who will fund the big, expensive, life-changing, pathbreaking technologies? + ONLINE... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
Health Organization. Whil currently works with nearly 250 companies (including HBS) in 100 countries to offer short, daily online training sessions that give employees the tools they need to manage their emotional health. Most popular are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
In addition, committees are formed to develop programs that respond to specific issues of concern to alumni. This year, the committees will be structured around the following topics. Online Services for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online marketplace... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
Alumni can use the removable card following page 52 of the Bulletin magazine, or at the Making a Difference page, to write down how they are making an impact and then send a photo of themselves holding the card to Alumni Communications.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Changing Student Life
"I'm actually an abstract artist," Jaja Jackson (MBA '99) told the Boston Globe (November 27, 2000), "but you know what? I was forced to go to school." That education — Harvard College, followed by a job at McKinsey, and then HBS — has... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for Americans who cannot afford to pay,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
position to compete online in the early stages of Netflix, but preferred to focus on improving traditional services rather than look into new distribution channels and to follow consumer preferences. —Ayuna... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
startup, Seven Starling has evolved. Its initial platform focused on providing mothers with a community of support through online peer groups. But in following the patient journey, the cofounders quickly... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the workers questions about their jobs. “I was very curious,” says Marcelo, who ultimately View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
some point going forward—in effect, learning alongside our students. We've also continued to optimize our Live Online Classrooms (LOCs), where all participants are remote but the faculty member is in a room where video screens of each... View Details