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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
sessions, check the progress of campus renovations, hear the latest on the School's initiatives from Dean Kim B. Clark, and, of course, catch up and network with each other. Reunion giving was also noteworthy. By the time they'd gathered... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
recognition in the field I was pursuing." Today, as CFO of a hot new Internet company called Excite@Home, the self-described "introspective" executive is getting plenty of attention. Goldman is busy helping Excite@Home become what he hopes will soon be the Internet and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Social Enterprise Summer Fellows program, which debuted in 1982, funds student forays into nonprofit and for-profit organizations focused on the public good. In addition, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
early success were it not for HBS and the OPM program, Taylor says. Classmates helped him network and even donated to the cause while the staff at Baker Library assisted with research. Professors Cynthia Montgomery, director of research... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A for-profit View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
children. “I was faced with the challenge of how to service the loan while continuing to work at Rocket Learning full time,” says Mahajan, recalling the concerns that prompted her application to the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative's... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Proflowers, there are no warehouses and no network of retail florists. Orders are transmitted electronically to growers, who cut, pack, and ship, usually within 24 hours. This supply-chain compression allows Proflowers to offer a unique... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
fund sector, today is undergoing substantial transformation, thanks to the Internet's growing reach. Unlike other areas of Internet commerce, such as online bookstores, where the cost of merchandise is roughly equivalent to in-store... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
we’re offering.” A management team consisting of local Nepalese and a few expats from the States rented a rice paddy, where they set up a makeshift camp. Volunteers sign up online and pay their own travel expenses. Once they arrive, the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
with more members gaining board seats and opportunities to interview. We knew the network was achieving success when a recruiting company sent WomenExecs four open board seats through one of our members.” The quieter victories also feel... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Broadcasting shortly afterward, however, Dodi's division was dissolved. Still under contract, she found herself with eight months of paid "vacation." "The time off helped me get the kids settled into a new culture," she says. In August 1997, Dodi became president and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this CEO and crusader for View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
Bussel: Using her business savvy to manage large-scale art installations. View Bussel's online gallery Three heads—simple, generic profiles—stand 30 feet high and span 100 feet across the outer wall of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
exceeded the expectations of both faculty and student, and it has sparked a kind of movement among participants and faculty alike to remain actively involved through social media, monthly conference calls, and View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
and the networking opportunities it provides. But perhaps it could be supplemented by online learning—and perhaps that would reduce cost over time for students as well as institutions. AC: Some of the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
had worked as a design engineer at Procter and Gamble, in addition to having cofounded a social enterprise that successfully commercialized biodegradable sanitary pads in India. Saigal started looking into the $10 billion diaper industry... View Details