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- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
The demand in the market right now is functionally infinite. DM: One of the big movers in the space is the Frontier Fund, a group led by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey that committed just short of a billion dollars to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
Texas, with Dell computer. And during my years at Dell-- I was there about eight years-- I worked in marketing and e-commerce. I had a couple of overseas assignments but always loved exploring. And in fact, living overseas a couple of... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
attractive outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. HBS professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk is a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
find new and important ways to add value for our alumni constituency. The Alumni Association Board of Directors meets three times a year on campus, as well as at each annual Global Alumni Conference. At these meetings we hear about new... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
really just a means to help me form and develop my ideas. The first month, I sent it to 20 or 30 friends. That’s the only marketing I ever did for it.” Since then, the Business of Fashion has grown steadily at a rate of over 100 percent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
(Above: photo by Christina Gandolfo) When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
kids, and the characters, and their camaraderie. And for me, it's basically a version of Stand By Me. It is about a kids going through a tricky time in life when you're a teenager and early teens, and how much your friends mean to you,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
their organizations and push for gender parity in light of these changes.” For guidance in planning the event, the club reached out to HBS professors Robin Ely, who is an expert on gender issues and Joseph Fuller, an expert on the future of work. “It was such a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
admired businesses—how much do those evolve over time based on your market cap? What’s in vogue and in favor is ‘admired.’ ” There is a common thread, the article notes, to these criticisms: “Klarman’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
dividends and compounding matter; explains options-trading techniques that will be beneficial no matter what the market does; analyzes real-life examples of investing opportunities; and provides tips on how to construct a portfolio, value... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
inputs that are 19 percent cheaper," says Masha. "We get them the knowledge to increase their yields up to three times the national average, and sell their produce for about 37 percent higher than what they can get themselves." When Masha... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills developed a “natural concern” about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco (MBA 2003) (Columbia University Press) A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (McGraw-Hill) Economic turbulence has arrived with a vengeance, and only companies that... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
theatrical for some people. But odd as it may seem, their concerns were not very different from the concerns we heard when we talked to business leaders around the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details