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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing that Amazon “is like the world’s biggest mall,” Ford decided to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
or any crucible? So I think there's an opportunity there, not only for a person to grow and demonstrate growth through overcoming significant challenges, but also to connect with other people in pursuit of something that's bigger than... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Businesses in Agribusiness, New Opportunities in the Health Care Industry, and Managing in the Marketspace. "This cooperation among various units has greatly enhanced EM's ability to deal with the cross-disciplinary research required to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
that of Kentucky’s established breeding farms, some of which managed over forty stallions. Clay adopted a boutique approach to guarantee personal service for both the owners and their horses, and serve as a point of differentiation to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
And on the positive side, firms that do well on the ESG spectrum—environmental, social, and governance spectrum—and run their businesses with purpose, show a massive benefit in attracting and retaining talent—which is by the way, a huge View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
the need to enter personal information up front, using a chat interface, and adding details about the wide range of services available—that led to a big uptick in the number of women vets engaging with U.S. VETS. An example of an EDC... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
marketplace for neurotechnology digital health products, was accepted into the Harvard i-lab Venture Incubation Program and the Rock Accelerator; she is now working on it full-time with cofounders Brian Smith (MBA 2017) and Sofia Warner... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to tabletop holograms to “a great View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
is wealthy enough so that, ideally, all its citizens should be taken care of and “some base level” of health care should be available to all. Buffett concluded with some professional and personal advice. “Go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Many interviewees contrasted the pro forma safety training they had received in previous jobs — where everyone knew the real priorities were still cost cutting and speed — with the company’s current commitment to “walking the talk.” Could... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Club of South Florida. The gathering took place at the Four Seasons Palm Beach Resort and featured a breakfast... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
disgusted by corruption. They worry about school fees, the price of rice, the cost of fuel, and the crime rate. For me personally, Liberia is an enjoyable place. Health care is a little scary: The X-ray... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
It was pretty amazing, actually, that feeling. At the end of it, they asked, how do I pay for it? And I said, well, you gather in groups of five and this pot costs you $25. So if every person pays in $5 this... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
before we came. So we basically, do fundraisers and other things, to help promote ocean health and environmental causes that, we think, will benefit people for generations to come. White: Can you give me an example of one of the projects... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely plausible impression of a View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
to have other people take control over your time. One of the goals of this project is really to talk about what the broader benefits are. I talked to a law firm that was trying to reduce burnout in their senior partners. They had had folks that were unhappy, folks that... View Details