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- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977), president of the Washington, DC–based consulting company Bankworld, built I Create, a nonprofit organization focused on combating India’s unemployment crisis through entrepreneurship, in 1999. Since that time,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
As cochairman of the board of Loews Corporation, Andrew Tisch (MBA 1977) has played a leadership role in one of the largest diversified companies in the United States. He is also using his skills to help improve inner-city education,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
important,” she says. Eighteen years later, Greenpac counts Fortune 500 companies among its industrial clients. The company is on the verge of international expansion, but Chong, who received the Ernst &... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
In this video, Startup Factory Ethiopia cofounder Thomas Ferede (MBA 2009) explains the mission of his organization—and how the HBS network has helped further its goals. “So Startup Factory Ethiopia is a venture builder. We wanted to create inspirational View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
was being poorly managed." The two men arranged to meet again. A month later in New York City, they shook hands over dinner and agreed to work together. "I was shocked when I discovered how much the music industry favored the record View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
B2B companies can take advantage of this opportunity by inserting ads that are relevant to their subscribers or potential customers. Is email better for reaching certain demographics? Our recent survey found that nearly 60 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and integrity. For example, in 1978... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
zones while she was a student here. Her first book, 2012’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, tells the story of Kamila Sidiqi, a young female Afghan entrepreneur who built a thriving business under Taliban rule. Her 2015 book, Ashley’s War,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Frankel in Moscow (A): Unfreezing Change Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew BirdHarvard Business School Case 312-070 A young and upcoming French executive in a global technology company is sent to Moscow as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
HBS. He lost, and Blumkin, who was struggling to see a career path out of sales, headed for Cambridge to find out how the case study method might change her game plan. "For a young woman who had grown up in a remote village in Vermont's... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
development company amid today's roller-coaster economic cycles is a challenge, he says, but challenges are something understands. "You need to say, ‘I'm going to do what's best for the company,' and do what you think is right," he says.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 02 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail
preliminary work before traveling to the market. My global partner was an Istanbul, Turkey based retailer with several hundred locations in Turkey that wanted to make its retail experience more appealing to young consumers. Istanbul is a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Capitalism: Past, Present, Future - Course Catalog
than half of young Americans view capitalism positively, and calls for alternatives are becoming ever more frequent. Why? And why have different forms of capitalism led to such unequal outcomes around the world? What is capitalism,... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a company he founded in 1995 and led through 2005. He set out to build a company with a “good soul,” he says. “We were like the U.N.—we had one of everything—Hilton, Hyatt,... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
water entrepreneurship ecosystem is lagging behind other sectors that are on focused climate and sustainability—led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company invests exclusively in entrepreneurs building technologies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
government and no tradition of tech innovation that we ever hear about," says Schroeder. "But to be surrounded by such a large quantity of young people—many of them women—who were unbelievably head-down, thinking about problems they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
programs has grown by 25 percent to 330 participants. Looking back over the past decade, Childress detects a growing interest among young alums in starting or joining an organization dedicated to social change. “The attitude is that this... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior Achievement (JA) of Georgia, the HBS volunteers joined the View Details