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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
London, Tokyo, Hong Kong); megacities and population magnets (e.g., São Paulo, Lagos, Mumbai, Jakarta); and “up-and-comers,” cities of 150,000 to 10 million people, aspiring to international stature (e.g.,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Island Promise. The state legislature approved it in 2017, making Rhode Island one of some 20 states that have adopted similar programs. Sara Enright (MBA 2004), vice president of student affairs and chief outcomes officer at the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
When Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999) returned home to India after graduating from Wellesley College in 1988, her father suggested she try working at one of the family holding company’s three hotels. Two years later, when her father died unexpectedly, Paul, her mother, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
expands Patagonia’s business in the rapidly growing and increasingly profitable used-clothing market, which can cut the carbon, waste, and water footprint of a purchase by 82 percent. “Imagine if used... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
be quite so literal, museums across the country are working hard to shed their stodgy images and appeal to a broader spectrum of visitors with blockbuster exhibitions, well-stocked gift shops, remodeled cafés, and, in some cases, even... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Presidential Adviser
6, 2006, Q&A with the Chicago Sun–Times, Hubbard, assistant to the President for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council, championed Bush’s message on taxes. The way to spur more economic View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
it’s not right.” The company’s approach to growth is no different. “One of the benefits of a family business is that you’re able to plan for the long term,” Kearsey says of the brewery founded in 1777 by Dorset farmer Charles Hall. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
Baker Library Historical Collections In the fall, the Baker Library / Bloomberg Center debuted an exhibit tracing the life of Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), one of HBS’s most storied professors. Well known by students for his popular Manufacturing course View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
occasion to reveal that Doerr’s firm has created a $100 million “iFund” to encourage programmers to develop all manner of software, from games to business, for the iPhone; Kleiner Perkins will back promising new iPhone ideas and the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
time we competed. It really represents our growth and perseverance as founders, and it’s incredibly special to be recognized by the HBS entrepreneurship community, as our... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
last and greatest feat of the Communist-planned economy. The thirty bridges, the ten light railways, the countless tower blocks all appear through the smog like monuments to the power of the centralized one-party state. Yet the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
challenge ahead is to create a system that maintains and shares stable prosperity and economic growth equitably and globally. “Today,” he said,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by distribution relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon