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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail consultant and a cofounder of a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
many. And so, it will still take more steps for this to become an industry that’s investable in the kind of way we’re used to investing in other sectors. So, I would say that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
nature of business itself. It’s more global, more technology dependent, and less hierarchical. Knowledge-based industries are overtaking older, more basic industries. And the pace of change is quickening. “So we have to understand how the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
analyzing his own investment home runs and errors with his trademark wit and insight. The author of nine books on personal investing and business, a columnist and regular contributor over the years to... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
employer-driven training experience that we are supplementing and supporting and then providing the backing and accreditation around—is something that doesn't just work in K–12, it works in any industry that requires a skilled workforce.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
continues. “I remember sitting in Walter Shorenstein’s conference room on the 49th floor of the Bank of America building in San Francisco, with everyone looking around the table. The obvious person to run the team was Peter Magowan,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
to Lead" and sponsored by the student-run Entrepreneurship Club, offered a fresh look at today's changing entrepreneurial environment. Guy Kawasaki, founder and CEO of the venture-capital investment bank... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
listening—is one of Ratio’s key differentiators. We are finding ways to connect with groups that are of particular interest to our clients, such as women in investing positions.” “The impact of millennials, the #MeToo movement, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Green (MBA 1976) and Andrea P. Howe (Wiley) Twilight Reflections: Where the Elderly Find God by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981), helped by Kimi Tomaszek (CreateSpace) Swan Wait by Gwen Keane (PMD 50, 1985) (Keane Writers Publishing LLC) The Best Book On View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
they have made, followed by Q&A. The panel were introduced by Svitlana Repina (MBA 2023). Panelists: Vanessa Broadhurst, Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson; Liz Hilton Segel, Global Leader, Client Service and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
which built the large machines that automate the production of cardboard boxes. “I’ve always been wired operationally,” says Thomas, who majored in industrial engineering at Stanford University before coming to HBS. That background,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
think all New Yorkers felt personal outrage that this had happened and a commitment to seeing the city rebuild." "To see that kind of trauma inflicted on my city made me angry," declares Paige Sutherland (MBA '85), a former investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing.... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
secured an internship in banking and equity research, and in his junior year, he did a banking internship, both times at Credit Suisse. After graduation, Westphal spent two years working at JPMorgan, where... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
pianist. Meeting with colleagues at Baupost. Enjoying a Red Sox game with his wife, Beth. For 30 years, Seth Klarman has exercised an investment strategy of evaluating businesses based on their worth and of seeking out bargains. “It’s... View Details
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- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court
lessons from sports that really resonate with people across industries and backgrounds. And we saw an opportunity to take some of those lessons––but also, interview leaders across all walks of life who embody some of these traits––and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
opportunity — and a strategy for growth — in creating clean and sustainable industrial technologies and systems. “We’ve been stunned by the impact not just on our bottom line but in terms of what it means for our employees, for people who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in... View Details