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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
the people-related issues become increasingly important. The technical tools that seem so important when you are a student will help only up to a point." CURRENT READING Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje Jaime Zobel didn't plan to start his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
company or a small company,” he says, “you’d always run into this obstacle of scaling talent.” It seems like an obvious need, Mirza acknowledges. “But it’s usually an afterthought. There was no planning for it, no tools for it.” Mirza is... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
percent. Within a few weeks, a decade of growth had been wiped off the books. “It was quite a baptism by fire,” Christou recalls of the painful need to lay off a third of his workforce. “Suddenly, there was no business. So we had to do things differently.” Christou had... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
resellers, while 35 percent become feedstock for companies making recycled products—old wool sweaters become new ones, or last year’s fashions become tomorrow’s couch-cushion stu ng. The market for recycled materials is widening, Bolon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
You remember stories of leadership, failure, and decision points—facts, figures, and theories, less so.” (Sityodtong now serves as a guest lecturer and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD in Singapore.) He also met classmates Soon Loo and Kathleen Gasuad (now Martens).... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
innovation, and we’re committed to continuing that tradition. You can see that in how we’ve approached generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the program this year. From early in 2023, when we began planning our policy on GAI, we... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the format, standardize the menu, the configuration, pricing, focus on... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
rotation was tough but enjoyable. "I liked the juxtaposition of discussing a marketing case in Aldrich and then crossing the river to see a patient in Cambridge," he says. This year, as part of an HBS field study, Okezie has formulated a... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
the US Constitution, you need to understand the time period from which it emerged, Moss argues, and the problems and personalities that shaped it. Today’s case protagonist is Founding Father James Madison; the question he faces is the debate over the “federal... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
of his clients. Anulka proposes a payment plan to her Italian partners. They in turn increase their demands, threatening to kill her if she doesn’t perform. Incensed by their callousness and greed, she gives her dark side full rein,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
determination, strength, and grace that has made her one of the most influential and noteworthy leaders in corporate America today. For the past 21 years, Fudge has demonstrated a remarkable ability to lead teams, reposition products, and increase the bottom line. She... View Details