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- 22 Dec 2022
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LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin (MBA 1982), who leads HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
the online investing firm Kapitall. "I was really focusing on start-ups and early-stage businesses. I love to come in and find ways to start and grow businesses and create opportunities," she says. It's a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
554, with billings for 2006 estimated at $1 billion. The agency’s client list now includes brands such as Volkswagen, Burger King, and Virgin Atlantic, among others. “The business I loved is the business... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
agenda of how we carry out our research. The papers presented will be our vehicle for discussing academic decisions, just as case studies are a vehicle for advancing our understanding of business decisions." The conference allowed... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his career, he has been an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
which was taught entirely online last fall by Professor Karim Lakhani, the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, to more than 5,000 alumni around the world. “It was a virtual case... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Microsoft's online advertising business, began steering the company on a dramatically new course last year. In September 2013, Acxiom unveiled the beta version of a free website called AbouttheData.com, which gives individual consumers an... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
with WCNC. “We’re trying to help as many individuals as possible. There’s a lot of small businesses that need help,” Nikopoulos added. The pair launched their user-friendly website last spring, receiving some help from the Harvard I-lab.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
brought more women into the traditionally male world of mining. When she joined Anglo American, there were few women in leadership positions, while today 22 percent of the company’s managers are female. “It is a business imperative,” she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
more quickly from in-person services to virtual. Call center workers, for example, had access to the Kyruus scheduling function online so that, Gardner says, “Overnight, they switched from working with 400 others in a large building to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
streaming service, especially since the pandemic, when the video gaming business was booming. And beyond the business metrics, there’s the challenge of trying to make the gaming industry more accepting and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked about restaurants; namely, that they tend to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
As we begin the new academic year, I welcome the opportunity to share the exciting initiatives and activities under way at Harvard Business School. All our efforts are designed to pursue with excellence the School’s mission: to educate... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
practices of Canadian non-medical businesses. The best practices discussion was based on Cleveland Clinic Canada’s experience serving numerous Canadian enterprises through its Medical Director Program. “The webinar really gave us a physician’s viewpoint, a look at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
the global economy. Based on a culture of mutual trust and support, YPOers form lifelong connections in the small, geographically based YPO Forums where they share successes and challenges (both business and personal) in complete... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna