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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite some ups and downs, it thrived.... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the hard science behind the old... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the "Life After Clocky" case In the spring of 2005, media outlets... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
for $6.2 million and plans to spend another $16.5 million to retrofit the building. Beyond the money they already have, Markowitz and her board will need to raise an additional $18.5 million. All in all, they are off to a good start: the North American Association of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Ensuring That Students Can Pursue Their Dreams
pursued her entrepreneurial interests as COO of a fitness-related startup. She later joined Amsted Industries, a specialized metal components manufacturer in Chicago, where she is the company’s new-business sales manager. In gratitude for... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
leaders engaging on the idea of a national-level response to climate change for years, but remarked that interest has notably increased among its members. “We’re now seeing [interest from] folks from the insurance sector, from banks, from light View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
product. You know that if you’re not happy, you can take your business somewhere else. You have status. You matter.” Asha Impact invests in a variety of businesses that have impact. Examples include Janaadhar, an affordable housing developer; Greenway, a View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
the time a partner at the Athens-based Ulysses Commission Trading Company, an agency company representing foreign manufacturers in the Greek market, watched those dramatic days in late 1989 with mixed feelings. "I knew that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
officials show no signs of changing course and backing away from further market reforms. But external criticism of the country’s uneven progress in implementing the trade agreement has grown stronger in recent months. U.S. manufacturers... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
manufactured at scale.” The unique circumstances of the vaccine effort, and the need to apply leadership and management skills from the private sector to public service made for an engaging conversation between the guests and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
manufacturing and smart cities. Video content will continue to expand significantly, and autonomous factories aren’t far down the road. As people swap out their devices for the latest generation, and billions of devices come online,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
it’s not really clear what you bring to the table, and that’s a much more difficult sell. The benefits to the host country are far more palatable if you set up manufacturing operations from there because that immediately generates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
director of Admissions at Kellogg.) By the time she graduated, the pair had two daughters, Akilah and Ariel. In 1989, Steven and Michele Rogers decided to pursue their entrepreneurial interests and purchased Fenchel Lampshade Company in Chicago, a 66-year-old View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
is where we plan to make the first couple of units. Then we’re going to find a manufacturing facility so that we can build and deploy these, en masse, in Wyoming. Project Bison will be deployed over four major phases. In phase one—2023 to... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
manufacturer FMC Corporation. Burt appreciates the gift planning options available to support the School. “The folks at HBS helped us think through a life-income gift that made a lot of sense for us while giving back to Harvard,” says... View Details