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19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look

expected to reach $6.7 billion in sales in 2015.) “Everything we’re making is plant-based,” explains Levy in a phone interview from Kemin’s headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa. “FloraGLO Lutein is a natural antioxidant from marigold extract.... View Details

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2015
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Clubs Hopping

small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who sits on the club’s board. “There’s a demand and an appetite for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

April 2009 (Revised May 2017)
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Skyhook Wireless

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Thomas R. Eisenmann

Ted Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting that could finally give Skyhook an anchor customer. Ted and his team have worked for three years to build a new... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Technology Industry

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Rebecca Feickert Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results HBS, a Dream, and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise Rebecca Feickert 16 Nov 2017 “Nice talking to... View Details

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

and medium businesses draw meaningful, actionable insights from across all of their disparate data sources. Jana Care Sidhant Jena, MBA 2011 Jana Care is a health technology startup that aims at democratizing chronic care management in the developing world by... View Details

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
News

Streamlining the Supermarket

A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

Sarah refine her search. “I looked at industries hyper-dependent on people, and concentrated on technology and financial services.” Like her HBS colleagues, Sarah launched a campaign to “reach out and connect to people,” perusing the... View Details

18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then... View Details

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward

Anthony Foxx discussing America’s infrastructure challenges, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter last month released MOVE: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead to offer a road map for a more mobile future. Tax Code In an effort to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya

X". Start typing consumer lifestyles and the name of your GEO country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging market info, including company info, news and niche View Details

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

part of a student's flight allowance. The Global Experience Office provides more information on travel insurance recommendations on myHBS. Phone Policy Students participating in FIELD Global Capstone must activate a global plan (voice,... View Details

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Women | MBA

meet some of your closest friends. Women’s Student Association The Women's Student Association (WSA) is the largest student club on campus. The WSA actively supports a community that empowers and mobilizes women to thrive academically,... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Capitalism’s New Agenda

hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

“Hang on a second, let me just get my phone real quick,” Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) says midway through a conversation one Friday morning in May, darting out the door of a glass-walled conference room in Los Angeles. She gives the entirely... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Mar 2004
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Haven for the Homeless

his cell phone industry product development position in 2002 to become the shelter’s executive director. During the winter months, the shelter houses an average of one hundred people a night, and demand has... View Details

Keywords: homeless shelters; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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