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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
fuel and lost business included—to be $124 billion annually, or about $2,000 per commuter. Mistele and INRIX aren’t in the business of delivering bad news, however. They have been trying to do something... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
“It’s a different sort of culture that took some getting used to, but it’s really a lot of fun.” (While he’s not a hardcore mountaineer, Baka expects to be at base camp on Everest next spring and possibly at Mount Rainier this summer.) Launched in August 2010, SlingFin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
are notably aggressive in their pursuit of research, therapies, and cures. These organizations apply results-oriented business approaches to medical and academic research that in the past would typically move at a stately pace. (Brad... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
market share. In all her endeavors, Dubinsky has compiled an extraordinary record by introducing practical applications of cutting-edge technology into our daily lives. Growing up in a small town in Michigan, Donna Dubinsky had her first taste of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
finding allies in several HBS professors bolstered my confidence to take the leap. When I graduated, I had nothing but a business plan and the $3,000 pitch prize. Then came the $25,000 HBS fellowship in 2009. Today, we are a $3 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development of the airline industry over the last 30 years... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in turning losing teams into winners, Louis-Dreyfus has an enviable record of reshaping underperforming companies into formidable competitors. A scion of one of France's most prominent business families, he rejuvenated IMS International,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
This fall marks the launch of the first capital campaign in Harvard Business School's 94-year history, with a goal of raising $500 million by the end of 2005. In the following interview, Dean Kim B. Clark talks about the current state of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
similar challenges. “I want to succeed in business and become a philanthropist so that I can help others in the same way,” she says. Until then, she is already having an impact as a role model for peers in... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
"institutions have to fully understand and be able to implement superior customer service. "Each service interaction forms the basis of a consumer's perceptions of the overall quality of an organization," the authors continue. "How well a View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to directors employed by the CGC.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
desires, it doesn't have needs. It's basically taking in sensory data and trying to make a model of the world and make predictions and understand the world around it. That's the part of the AI thing that we're doing. So, you worry a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
The sole ownership model made a lot of sense for Apple early on, Andersen notes, but the collaborative Windows approach enabled Microsoft to become bigger, quicker. “Within AGR there’s this notion that you don’t want to share a ton of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
pandemic, such that we went from a six-week turnaround time to a twelve-month wait on any products put in at Gold Rush. It forced me to look at how we pivot the business model and also how do we diversify... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge. Lakhani, the Lumry Family Associate... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
NFTE program for India, dubbing it I Create. Aruna interviewed dozens of Indian entrepreneurs, seeking role models for Indian youth, and used 12 of their stories to write the book Everyday Entrepreneurs: The Harbingers of Prosperity and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers