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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After. The book tells the story of a man... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating within the walls of the hospital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
products, thereby gaining a foothold in the $1 trillion global health-and-wellness food market. This could yield unprecedented opportunities for the 500 farmers in Cameroon from whom CassVita sources the produce. “I love using technology... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
Last fall, Boston Ballet opened its season with an epic work—an uninterrupted piece choreographed to Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 that ran just under two hours. “It’s close to pure abstraction, so not a story ballet, not a fairy tale,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
(“Rocky”) Aoki fell in love with New York City. The son of a restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father’s first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
ground where they can work together. “In a truly multicultural corporate environment, people strive to strike a balance between their own cultural core and being open to other value systems, communication... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
“The new cases will feed our curriculum, we have opened lines of communication with many new companies, and the case method has found a firm foothold in China.” A second collaborative program, Competing in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
The former managing editor of Fortune magazine,Walter Kiechel (MBA '76, JD '77) once said,"I hope that if you woke up a sleeping Fortune writer in the middle of the night and asked,'What is the mission of the magazine?' the answer would be: 'It is to be the most... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
Fonsi, most famous for his single “Despacito.” “What we see with his catalog is a huge opportunity for continued upside because there’s a lot of growth in the Latin markets,” Soares says. It’s a trend that is only beginning to open up and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Instead, German defeat was due to errors of Nazi diplomacy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources (including many recently released), Hitler’s Great Gamble is a provocative work that will appeal to a wide cross-section of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
fortune to go remote-first while startups in hardware or the life sciences cannot. Embrace the opening for increased quantity and quality of candidates. Your initial cluster of employees should be viewed as an opportunity, not a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
On any given day in his job as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012) might find himself analyzing funding sources with the nonprofit organization’s CFO, lunching with a student mentee,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
organizations to render aid. If any of our alumni are looking to connect with one another, we recommend using the Alumni Directory together with the secure Alumni Messaging Service to communicate (click on the envelope icon on any alumni... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
should on issues like climate change and the footprint of some of our practices. What is the WWF’s position on the impact of greenhouse gases on climate change? Ninety-nine percent of the scientific community says the evidence is clear... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
are a source of new perspectives and ideas, and they can be really helpful if you’re dealing with a decision, a challenge, or new career direction.” Danciu says the seven clubs are already looking forward to presenting another virtual... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives contend, consumers should pay... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
graduating with honors from HBS. After eight years with GM — including a stint as treasurer of GM España in Madrid — O’Neal had cultivated an “appetite for the deals business.” So when Merrill Lynch came knocking, he gladly opened the... View Details