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Biotech and medical devices: Company Data and Analysis
Insights & Industry Analytics - Tracks global venture capital, angel investment, private equity, M&A, and IPO activity related to private companies and emerging spaces. Pitchbook - Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and View Details
Thomas G. Stemberg
Staples stores throughout the US, Stemberg added new services for small businesses including a copier center, a technology resource for managing computer networks, and office furniture. Staples became one of only six retail outlets to... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Frank L. Gillespie
Having worked in a large, successful white insurance firm, Gillespie saw the need to bring better insurance services to Chicago’s black community and founded Liberty Life in 1919. Unlike other insurance firms, Liberty Life was the first... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 05 Apr 2016
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A Business Plan with Spice
Emily Miller (MBA 2015) and Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015) both served in the US Army in Afghanistan. “We wanted to continue that service through a different avenue, which was through business,” Jung says in an interview on Chicago Tonight.... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
means is by showing what's possible, that's all the work that we're actually building ourselves, so we're running digital services that are user-centered, they're simple, they're easy to use, they're data driven, and we're scaling those.... View Details
Sanford I. Weill
on strong execution and delivery of services, stock-based incentive compensation plans, and skillful blending of complimentary strengths and weaknesses, has helped to achieve his mission of building a brand name financial services... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I... View Details
- Portrait Project
Graham Evans
was humanly possible. Do I want to teach others as I learn? If my comments are anything to go by, this is not my vocation. By process of elimination it should be clear by now, that having thrown out banking, consulting, VC, Fortune 500 firms, and academia, the careers... View Details
- 26 Sep 2016
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Lending a Hand
hand is really important. So, lending a hand, the idea of being of service to others—which by the way may not accrue credit to yourself, nobody may ever know of the good deed that you did, or the help that you provided. Nobody may ever... View Details
- Career Coach
Connie Walsh
services for a healthcare NFP called Helping Hands. Prior to Staples, Connie worked in strategic marketing and brand management at Harvard Business School, Kraft Foods and Johnson & Johnson. Connie also spent two years at a start-up... View Details
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
Competition for the Supply of Control Systems By: Mikes, Anette Abstract—How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya
concepts such as strategy, business models, new product or service development, retail trends, etc. CultureGrams: Republic of Kenya Useful for: Country profile with focus on culture and customs View Details
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
One and the Same
working for McKinsey in London and New York; most recently, she served as MP for the Victorian Parliament from 2006 to 2020, in addition to roles as Victoria’s Minister for Mental Health and Community Services and Minister for Women’s... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
school were probably the courses that focused on managing people. So when I left the business school and ended up in the financial services business, and was managing people, one of the things that I tried very hard to do was to really... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success
Fiorina, group president of the global service provider business at Lucent Technologies. Her address was followed by "Attackers vs. Defenders: The New Media Wars," a panel featuring leaders of major Internet-related companies - such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change together. Hosted by the HBS... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an economist by... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
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