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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
MBA students in their startup endeavors—Kraus says colleagues have frequently asked her for the names of other women founders and CEOs, within the tech industry and beyond. She finally decided to make a list. She identified more than 60... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa. As founder and CEO of Adesemi, Monique Maddy (MBA '93) spoke about her goal to deliver wireless communication - through a system of voicemail, pagers, and pay phones - to underdeveloped areas of the globe. Panelist John L. Mack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
fiscal 2002) has had little difficulty recruiting experienced employees, with surplus tasks handled by managers-in-training. Mack, a former consultant in heavy manufacturing and petrochemicals at Bain & Company, bought the Sweet Tomatoes chain from its original View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
work arrangements could succeed at the highest levels. “If you want to beat expectations, be good at what you do,” she said. “There are secret powers to being an underdog. Remember that until somebody else does it, there is a lack of belief that it can happen.” Lisa... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
the Beatles, Thomas Alva Edison, Michael Jordan, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the founders of Infosys, author Amish, and others have used rejections as a pivot to swing their careers and businesses around. Parameswaran brings his decades of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
his motorbike into in the late 2000s. READ MORE [Sound of motor bike] Aldi Haryopratomo: Hi, my name is Aldi. I am the CEO of Gopay, and also the founder of Ruma, or now called Mapan. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
asserts Moore, who will stay involved in public education even though her son is off to Harvard College. She was also a founder of Gilda’s Club, a nonprofit that supports people living with cancer, and a member of the bipartisan National... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
precipitate a war between the countries. Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) (Flatiron Books) The founder of the Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, offers... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28. Houlihan Lokey would go on to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
schedule. Massive testing is considered to be a cornerstone of the national COVID-19 response strategy.” Jaime I. Ayala (MBA 1988) Founder and CEO, Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI): “In the war against COVID-19 in rural areas of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
the inverse of Tinder. “Catering to women tends to enhance the experience for both parties,” says Kang. In other words, attract women and the men will follow. That’s also the thinking behind Jess, Meet Ken, which—like the website that brought its View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
people and businesses are finding that the two things we love most in the world—cars and cash in our pockets—are totally optional. By 2017 people will be disrupting the disrupters, because the world is changing so fast. “Number three: Entrepreneurship is no longer just... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
but also be really effective. I learned so much at Google about this. I want to tell you the story about getting criticism from my boss because I learned a lot from this moment. It was shortly after I joined Google and I had to give a presentation to the View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
if I've gotten a really good workout, gotten a lot of sleep, and didn't drink, for example. These days, as a founder and a father, I sleep so much less than I did before. I work out so much less than I did before. And I'm averaging about... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
pulling their teams together to discuss future initiatives, intent on breaking down silos. Chris Kempczinski’s office—once inhabited by McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc—is just up the hall. “Chris has made himself incredibly available for me... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
She's also the founder of Moms of Black Boys United, a nonprofit with over 170,000 members nationwide that had an unexpected start in 2016 as a private Facebook group. When she wrote the first post that started that group, McGruder was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
hacking in India, the founders of Zomato, IndiaMart, ShopClues, Paisabazaar, and a lot more. Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First by Ram Charan (MBA 1965), Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey HBR Press Typical... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
big-screen subscriptions for cable or any of the many streaming services, from Amazon to Hulu, that people are consuming in their evening hours—a market against which Whitman says they are not in direct competition. The founders worked... View Details