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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
source will become a candidate for a search. Developing and Presenting Candidates. After determining a candidate’s potential interest, we arrange a confidential meeting to assess the person against key... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the center of a network that provides rich opportunities for professional and intellectual growth. For me, that network has also been important because of the lasting friendships it has fostered and the doors it has opened for meaningful View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
start your own business?’ ” she recalls. “My answer was that I’m the person who sets the direction and gets things done, but I don’t have an idea for a business.” That changed when she reconnected with Mark, an old friend from Yale whom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
would allow more time with their young families. But what would they do? The idea for Bookmarks grew out of a mutual passion for reading and a hunch — confirmed by friends and focus groups — that book lovers needed an easy-to-use buyer’s guide. The pair pooled View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
brand,” she says. Later, she served in various roles at the company in Geneva, joining the board in 2002 and then becoming president in 2012 when her father retired. When Hubscher took the helm, the company was about to celebrate its first century. There were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
on “The Flower Salesman,” which he painted on a six- story building in Dortmund, Germany. The portrait depicts a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who became a successful flower seller in Lebanon. If Yazan Halwani (MBA 2020) had a personal... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
differences in status,” notes Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, whom McArthur recruited to develop the School’s entrepreneurship program. “You simply cannot survive as Dean unless you keep the faculty engaged in something that is... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
nonprofit international development organization that he has chaired for the past decade. While he now draws a firm line between business and public service, the skills he uses in each realm overlap tremendously. Many of those skills —... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Jennifer McCrea and Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), with Karl Weber (Deepak Chopra) This book is a guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Through personal stories, many innovative suggestions, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. “For many small businesses, that meant tough times got even tougher, which inspired us to look for alternative solutions that put people first,” Dyer says. Ezeji-Okoye asked Dyer,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
captured the redoubt. Hamilton, sword in hand and the first person to leap into the fray, could not have written a better script or carried it off with more élan. It was the perfect culmination of his time in the army, and it made him a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
two-sided platform: Implementation teams have a consolidated view of the process to make sure everything stays on track, while the end customer gets a simple, personalized experience that guides them through the process so they can get up... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint