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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
have responded so swiftly and effectively without the HBS Fund. JONES: Some alumni wonder why the School needs their HBS Fund gifts each year. We spend a lot of our volunteer time educating alumni about the endowment. While HBS has been... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
managing director of Food-X, the firm's accelerator program focused on the food industry. But now, as he considered his next decade, and the world as it looked to his 17-year-old daughter, he realized he needed to shift his focus. "It sounds sort of hokey," he says,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
trademark lawsuit, or spending money on a domain name or logo that turns out to be unusable. As head of Master-McNeil, a Berkeley-based naming and branding agency behind names like Ariba, PayPal, Athlon, Affirm, and over 60 projects for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
to expand their market power through vertical and horizontal integration," Silk explains. Within the media industry, a central fact is that its many actors, from venerable big-city dailies to the hottest Internet sites, are competing for a limited pool of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
cofounded and implemented — at a December event at HBS at which she introduced the ALI’s first cohort of fourteen fellows. Ranging from a former U.S. astronaut and a former Venezuelan health minister to a former IBM international executive, the fellows — all in their... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
American-born Philip W. Stern (MBA '82) moved to Australia in 1985, spending several years as a McKinsey consultant. He has been Down Under ever since. Now a self-proclaimed Sydney local, Stern is a partner at the management consulting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
excited for the opportunity, spending three years as a manufacturing manager at Frito-Lay, but apprehensive about the cost of the MBA Program. “Everyone in my neighborhood and my community was so excited and I was just freaking out: ‘How... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
$205,000). By Invitation Only, a book detailing their entrepreneurial journey, will be published in April. AW: Marvin, you spend a lot of time traveling abroad. Are there any innovative retail concepts that you see outside the United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
will not be reversed quickly, if it can be reversed at all. To do so will require exceptional leadership from the new president, since some aspects of life in the United States may get worse before they get better. To get started we will need to View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
illogical collective decisions we make.” —Dante Disparte (PLDA 6, 2009), founder and CEO, Risk Cooperative Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng “What I love about this novel—particularly given the amount of time I spend thinking about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
oversee the ongoing business. Private-equity directors typically spend more time with their companies after the buyout than many of their public company counterparts. Private-equity boards are typically small working groups composed of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
simple solutions to rebuild industry, create good jobs, reduce out-of-control spending on entitlements and health care, dramatically improve education, and restore a military battered by years of war. Accelerating Out of the Great... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
November and December, these women typically awake before dawn to pick the coffee cherries in the cooler morning air. Then they spend days tending to the drying beans, meticulously sorting them for sale. To ensure that more of the value... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Pandemic project: When COVID-19 hit, Thoren led a pitch to the UK government to create jobs for unemployed and disadvantaged young people, in restoring the UK’s depleted natural infrastructure, based on the US Civilian Conservation Corps. “We’ve had lots of interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
collaborative,” he says. “We can spend most of the day in the writer’s room, working on different ideas. When we finish a storyline we let out a little puff of white smoke, like the Curia in Rome.” The show received six Emmy nominations;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive role of monks in Thai society. Every Thai male is expected to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
company. But at some firms, like Burt’s, it is also important to the companies’ mission and culture. That tension is an interesting thing to consider. How much should a company spend to be fully mission-driven?” (As an aside, Marquis... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
white people to put money into Black banks, you also suggest that they support Black businesses. Can you talk a little bit about the network effects of supporting Black businesses, what are the ripples when that happens? SR: So I'm asking people to invest or View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
skilled outside workers and managers while providing good wages in a country where the average person makes under $100 per year. Equally important is the project’s catalytic impact on future investment. The sponsors have decided to spend... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details