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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
leadership. (photograph courtesy Conference Board) Conference Board president Richard Cavanagh (MBA '70): elevating and honoring corporate leadership. (photograph courtesy Conference Board) Clinton wanted the award to pay tribute to the memory of View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
learning experience,” she said), briefly retired in her mid-30s for a stint as a snowboard bum in Colorado, and headed up Wisconsin’s Commerce Department as Secretary in Governor Jim Doyle’s administration. In addition, she worked in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Internet commerce is the emergence of the electronic wallet. In its simplest form, the electronic wallet (a.k.a. the digital wallet or e-wallet) is a digital file that can be downloaded onto the consumer's desktop. When it is time to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
"Since well before biblical times, the basic unit of commerce has been the family," explains HBS senior lecturer John A. Davis, coauthor of Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business, who helped create the program.... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Excellence in Entrepreneurship 2011 Angie’s List IPO 2011 Joins DePauw University Board of Visitors 2014 Joins Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Board 2017 Angie’s List has more than 5 million members Cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
CloudFlare.” Good deal: Matthew “It really pays to keep old business cards. Years ago I met Lindon Leader at a Chamber of Commerce event in my hometown of Park City, Utah. He’s designed logos for FedEx, Ryder trucks, Double-Tree Hotels,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment applications and mobile marketing via SMS through its website (www.wikipay.com) and mobile site... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Business World Gone Global
a day, the competitiveness and sophistication of international commerce have increased enormously. In the profiles that follow, five members of the Class of 1973 share their secrets for success in today's dramatically reconfigured global... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
many key themes running throughout the online marketplace these days: the maker movement, which highlights handcrafted creativity; sustainable commerce (buying local and getting to know the person behind the piece); online branding ; and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
use becomes more mainstream," she says, "hospitals will be seeing this as a service they'll routinely want to offer their patients." —L.G. « Back Virtual Commerce Like the phone or fax, the Internet is now another major tool for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
recalls. After consulting at the Stanford Research Institute and teaching at Stanford Business School and UC Berkeley’s business school, America worked in the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Small Business Administration, focusing on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) sees global warming as both a threat to the environment and an opportunity for commerce in the melting North, where conflicting sovereignty and resource claims are heating up, too. The Wise Men For half a century,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
disadvantage of the Internet has been a lack of trust. We are creating trust and disrupting data brokers by providing individuals with a medium that provides them with control over the use of their personal data.” says Hall. ID.me was awarded Most Veteran-Friendly... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the... View Details
- 12 Feb 2022
- News
Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83
with convenient mobility solutions,” Pawan Munjal, chairman and CEO of Hero MotoCorp, a Bajaj competitor, told Forbes. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that Bajaj “will be remembered for his noteworthy contributions to the world of View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
over $460,000 for Haitian communities. He also encouraged companies to invest, and Marriott will open up its first Port-au-Prince hotel in 2014. In parallel, Goodwin worked with the US Chamber of Commerce and major multinationals to... View Details