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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
not nearly enough are aiming to be market leaders in 2025. Foresight is a muscle that can be developed.” —Alison Sander (MBA 1986), director of Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Sensing & Mining the Future, from her October 2014... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
In October, a team of five HBS students won the National Energy Finance Challenge at the University of Texas’s McCombs School of Business, the Harbus reported. Marwan Chaar, Puja Jain, Anh Pham-Vu, Ravi Sarin, and Christine Telyan (all HBS ’09) bested teams from... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days, Kovatch has held multiple roles... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
Managing Customers for Growth. She designed it for students who want to grow their own business, help others grow theirs, or be better able to evaluate growth trajectories as a potential investor. Ascarza developed “Madrigal: Conducting a Customer-Base Audit” as a tool... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual analytics platform that View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) and WinRed (Republican) and reported... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
enjoying incredible coffee in the cafés of Milan, I came back to the United States and began looking around, trying to figure out what I was going to drink,” he says. “And a friend of mine told me about Peet’s.” Known for its flavorful... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
something precious in the meaning of that brand that they’re willing to fight for. Imagine if I changed my brand logo and no one noticed. That might mean that no one cared enough about my brand. Now, that would be negative. Of course, the bigger opportunity lies in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
activities—such as space mining and microgravity manufacturing of specialized materials like semiconductors and optical fibers—could take a while to develop. “If you want to stay alive as a startup, one place where there are stickier... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
statistical norm of two children. Her in-laws were appalled when she went back to work when her youngest started school; no one blinked when I went back to work after an eight-week leave. Her career options were nurse, teacher, librarian (her choice); View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
exaggerated." by James E. Aisner (Adapted from the Winter 1999 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of the HBS Division of Research.) The Real Estate Game by William J. Poorvu with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (Free Press) The multitrillion dollar real-estate industry... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Ministry of Education mine its existing data around its students, test scores, and teacher allocations. The organization also did site visits to high schools to assess the programs’ overall success. Paul says that they are also helping... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
enough to make me say yes to the offer. I joined the company as assistant to the president. But when the president lost his job, mine disappeared, too. Back in Michigan, my father had passed away, and my older brother became CEO of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
side or the support side (equipment suppliers, startup consultants, etc.)? Over history, some of the most successful ventures were launched on the support side. (Some people who made the most money during the gold rush sold picks and shovels rather than actually View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
pioneers have moved out there, claimed the loot, and put a stake in the ground, then they want property rights," Spar observed. "They don't want to be sitting out there with shotguns; they want to be running their business or mining their... View Details
- 06 Jun 2014
- News
Alternative Fuel Changing the Energy Industry
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Leadership for Executive Education
Executive Education welcomed a new executive director in April, when Patricia Bellinger stepped into a role left vacant by Ralph James (MBA ’82), who became executive director of HBS External Relations last July. From 2000 to 2007, Bellinger was based in London as one... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world. Just don't tell that to Justin... View Details