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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres Image courtesy Ernesto Humpierres In classic engineer fashion, Ernesto Humpierres (MBA 2011) has always enjoyed building systems, whether it’s a Lego set with his twins or an e-commerce side hustle with their mother, Sarah Scott... View Details
- 19 Mar 2016
- News
Ex-McKinsey Analyst Finds New Path as Lavish Jeweler
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in Japan, "it is going to completely... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- News
Two Retail Veterans Take Aim at Amazon’s E-Commerce Reign
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Alumni Runner-up prize with Magma Trading, a stock market for block-size trades that he calls “the Costco of trading.” Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) (Europe region) took the $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize with his pitch for WeMaintain, a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the conference, which is jointly... View Details
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- 29 Jun 2021
- News
Procter & Gamble’s Lean Innovation Transformation
- 15 Aug 2015
- News
Victoria Tsai: Skin Secrets of a Geisha
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Trade card from 1833 advertising "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." (Baker Library Historical Collections) From the time of her marriage in 1743 until her death in 1765, Sarah Chamberlain, wife of Nathaniel Chamberlain, a blacksmith... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
February, featured a keynote address by Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, who, during her tenure as U.S. Trade Representative from 1996 to 2001, pursued an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets around the world. Barshefsky, currently... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
generations of Cuban refugees fought for control of the drug trade in Miami.” Classic Havana Nocturne How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English “All these mobsters are dead, but the author, through... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
NFL Players Hit the Books
Thirty-five NFL players traded their shoulder pads for notepads in late February to participate in an Executive Education program designed by the HBS faculty to help them prepare for careers after football. The NFL Business Management and... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
What Job Do You Hire Your Phone to Do?
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new companies, a few strike gold,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
to port.” Because of world events, the country is also seeing great opportunity. Alvarez explains that Argentina and Brazil have become beneficiaries of the trade war between China and the United States. “China needs soybeans for its pork... View Details