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- 04 Mar 2019
- News
The Anti-Shark Tank
38 companies, with investments starting at $50,000. “Wingable,” a pitch night cosponsored by Wing (an all-women’s work and community space) and Able Partners brought together 275 entrepreneurs and investors on a cold night in January, as reported by the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
run at a particularly glamorous assignment: managing the Benetton Group’s Formula 1 racing team. Named deputy chairman of the company last spring, Benetton has now been charged with revitalizing the firm’s line and leading its expansion into China and India, according... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
working for a consulting firm the summer after her first year at HBS, as well as her strong academic record, landed her a job at McKinsey's New York office upon graduation. "I figured I'd stay a few years,"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
later that the collapse occurred because “young men thought they could do anything.” Inside his own firm, Gordon maintained “an air of positive gentility, giving employees a free hand to pursue deals,” the New View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
recounted to the New York Times (March 10, 2002). At the outset of his tenure, for example, Gerstner scoffed at the notion that a new vision needed to be articulated for the... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market Chaos Before," Paul Brown of the View Details
- 19 Dec 2019
- News
A Ranch of One’s Own
Lin’s employees) work in a communal space with the look and feel of a classic Old West set, right down to the old-fashioned saloon. “If you put a bunch of creative people from different backgrounds into one space, something magical will happen,” Lin told the View Details
Keywords: LEGO
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
2007) and they have just one word for you: insurance. The trio are cofounders of Oscar Health Insurance (hioscar.com), their brand-new online company—competing with more than a dozen other health insurance firms—that offers coverage on the View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
upon them far more than we've ever thought before. And I hope that we do recognize how important they are. The system is still working. And it's thanks to the working class.” Dan Morrell: Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) is the author of several books with her husband, View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Illustration by Robert Neubecker Sports injuries are a business concern for Clara Wu Tsai (MBA 1993). She and her husband, Joe Tsai, are owners of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets; the WNBA’s New York Liberty; and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
while reading the New York Times. An article on the front page of the Business section about an innovative Brazilian retailer prompted an immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke at our class event in New York about why HBS is important to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
superintendent. Whether that individual is an educator or not doesn’t matter — leadership is what counts.” Resident Executives Trying to achieve similar change in the New York City school system is Mayor... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
to go work in New York or to work globally. For me, the thing that I found missing was my connection to the areas where I was working on these challenging issues. For me, I've always known that I wanted to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
Singapore and built an alumni club from the ground up, serving as committee member, secretary, and president between 1970 and 1988. In 1994, Teo became publisher and chief executive of Far East Trade Press and moved to Hong Kong — a city he likens to View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
as “playful” and “creative”—not in the Dominican Republic, but in New York City. After graduating from Brown in 2001, the amateur musical historian made a hobby of recording View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
contribute a lot.” Since then, he’s proved that thesis correct—several times over—in positions at the New York Public Library, at America Achieves, and currently as president and CEO of Education Development... View Details