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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
strong retail practice, which now accounts for half of the firm's consumer business. Like most senior McKinsey partners, Karch has served on numerous internal committees, and she is particularly proud of her work in forming (and then chairing) a global committee to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Breakthrough Insights
Breakthrough Insights, a special lifelong-learning program exclusively for HBS alumni, will be held March 30–April 2 at the School. With George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration Carl Kester as faculty chair, the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
muck. Somehow chicken wing bones would find their way into my shoes. When my mother would pick me up, the stench was so bad, she would roll down all the car windows, even in the dead of winter. It was easily the worst job I ever had. But I learned the responsibility of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
want things to be done right, but we don’t want to invest a lot of thought and process in finding a solution.” Online reviews are nothing new, of course. But Angie’s List was early to the game and operates under an almost unthinkable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
The dollars-and-cents reality of outfitting a new venture may not be the most glamorous topic, but Inc. Technology's special "CEO's Start-Up Toolkit" issue (Summer 2000) showcased both style and substance by featuring Marla Malcolm (MBA... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”
classmates going through a similar startup journey was also helpful she says, as was being close to the customer: “It was special to be on campus surrounded by students who experience the pain point we’re trying to solve daily.” READ MORE View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
to 2 percent range. Should the price be 0.25 percent or 1 percent? Second, how would an active robo-advisor work with other market participants? Alpha could leapfrog traditional advisors and deal directly with consumers, work with traditional advisors to make their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
HBS faculty in 1965. Specializing in general management, he also has published widely in the areas of financial risk management, negotiation, operations research, and utility theory. He taught in the MBA and... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Ensuring That Students Can Pursue Their Dreams
operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston Fellowship she received “gave me more flexibility and freedom in the first several years post-HBS to make some riskier decisions.” After... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
goalposts, locker rooms, or bathrooms. When HBS Operations Chief Andy O’Brien learned from his intern, a Brighton player, that the team’s championship had gone virtually uncelebrated, Andy and others at HBS swung into action. The result... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Hilton Wood and Vanessa Royle from the Southern California region. In addition to being HBS classmates, the winning teams all cut their teeth in either the Startup Operations course or the first-year immersion program, Startup... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
May's Harvard Commencement was a special one for Anand Mahindra (MBA 1981), chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra, as the University used the occasion to recognize him and two others with the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
laboratories that test chemicals, drugs, or other materials that require direct ventilation and specialized accommodations. The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab gives Harvard students and other members of the University an opportunity to... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
ability to treat patients with targeted therapeutics within hours of being admitted to the hospital—on Day Zero. The five-member founding team includes two MD PhDs who specialize in infectious disease (Doug Kwon) and clinical pathology... View Details
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
1944 with a very specific directive: Support the Slovak National Uprising to weaken the Axis forces—and, hopefully, bring a speedy close to WWII. While the group was eventually forced into the Slovak mountains by advancing German forces—and joined there by a group of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
include offerings not only from the current required and elective curricula of both schools but new, specially designed courses and seminars. Students will have two degree options — the Master in Public Policy/Master in Business... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
that says a lot about what drives his company: “Life is too short to work in a dysfunctional organization.” Dashboard specializes in analyzing why an organization’s growth may have slowed, and then works with management to institute... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams
at least two years before matriculating. Okeke served as a special operations manager at Home Chef, a meal-kit delivery startup, and as an associate consultant at Bain & Co. “I’ve always felt a desire to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
for Integrated Electronics), Grove started as director of operations before rising through the ranks to COO in 1979. For the next two years he presided over an all-out crusade with the fearsome name of View Details