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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
club operations, development of continuing education, and the marketing of programs and services to alumni. Three committees have been formed to focus on these issues, and they are presently hard at work assessing the current status of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
that he wrote emails for work. But what she’d said planted a seed that would become The Perfect Candidate, a young adult thriller published this month by Simon and Schuster that centers on Cameron Carter, a recent high school graduate who View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
the question of where to apply it to a team of experts—tech gurus as well as specialists in asset management, regulation jurisdiction, and operations. The team eventually landed on private equity. O’Grady offers the example of a fund... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
she herself is an organic farmer, Reade is not here to sell the blueberries, asparagus, beef, or lamb she raises at Neptune Farm. She’s here to support the other farmers, and they are here, in large part, because of her. Reade organized the weekly View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Ivy League credentials, Ovia decided to chart a different path. Two years ago, the leadership team, including cofounder and CEO Paris Wallace (MBA 2007), dropped all degree requirements for new hires and shifted to a skills- or competency-based focus. Particularly in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
first-year MBAs overcame significant obstacles to win the twelfth annual Babcock Marketing Case Competition, held in January at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Due to weather delays, the students' flight didn't... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property by Mark Blaxill (MBA ’84) and Ralph Eckardt (Portfolio) With the right intellectual property (IP) and the right strategies, companies can command premium prices, increase View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian markets from... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
landing a position in finance. “With some savings and more confidence, I was able to come to HBS with a different perspective and give myself a chance to explore,” he explained. Westphal enjoyed his work in private equity and returning... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
million LBO in 1979 to buy the firm from Johnson & Johnson, Invacare's annual sales have grown from $19 million to $1.5 billion. "Everything starts with the product," says Mixon, who had been marketing CT scanners before doing the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for.” That helps explain how it was that Rice managed to graduate with honors from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, but without employment. He did eventually land a job after college, spending two years at AT&T in a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
of the nonprofit developer Hello Housing, points out that these people are critical to healthy communities: “Some portion of the housing market has to be free from speculation to ensure there’s a place for the people who are supporting... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
reach a lot of people that way.” The alternative might be less targeted initially but with bigger potential in the long term: pursuing partnerships or affiliate programs with larger entities that already sell to families, like the AARP. “Partnerships can be slow; it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers