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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
forward to hearing about their impact on the broader community as their companies continue to succeed and they broaden their focus to the critical needs of our nation and the world. Ginger Graham (MBA 1986),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
and utility companies like Pacific Gas & Electric agreeing to accelerate deployment of charging stations along the routes. At some point, says Rich, “people will want to be in the business of creating charging stations and solutions, much... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs 57,000 people at 35 plants and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that exporting manufacturing has a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
with stores across East and Southeast Asia. The company became the subject of a 1990 HBS case study. In 1989, Lai branched out into the media world, starting up Next, an irreverent Cantonese-language magazine that quickly clicked with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
Wilson was a principled and driven executive who transformed a small company called Haloid in Rochester, New York, into one that became synonymous with photocopying. Ellis, former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, offers a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake) before wading into nearby Greasy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Executive Education developing over the next 20 years? What role does it play in the development of HBS? Bo Ekelund (TGMP 15, 2005), Bjärred, Sweden NN: The impact of our Executive Education programs, which today engage nearly 10,000... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
go for the money. In your first job, you're naive and will make a lot of mistakes. You need someone who will protect you, push you, and support you." CURRENT READING On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan For thirty years, Hansjörg Wyss has led Synthes, a global medical device... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the January Term, they’ll travel... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
affairs. Working with area companies and institutions, The Partnership facilitates interactions among current and emerging leaders and provides opportunities for individuals to share their knowledge and skills to bring about change in the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
lousy infrastructure. Guess what? That's India. "If you want to succeed in emerging markets, if you want growth—and most companies have no choice—you have to go to these markets. You can't wish away the chaos; you have to embrace chaos,... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
meeting for the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. In his work as the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Enable Biosciences, an award-winning early and accurate disease diagnosis company in San Francisco, Seftel had been aware of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
climate change and its impact on their industries. They want to talk about it.” Alumni explored investment risks and opportunities in climate change at HBS Club of New York panel discussion. To get the conversation started, Lassiter sent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
Photography by Neal Hamberg If your middle-school science class is studying New England’s green crab population, chances are you’ll get a lot more excited about the origin, life cycle, and environmental impact of this remarkable invasive... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
serves companies that are trying to attract and retain high-potential diverse talent. The challenge for women, Skeete Tatum says, is not one of motivation, capability, or track record, but rather of not knowing where or how to start the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
invention. What we’ve witnessed in these past months is so many health care workers and health care companies becoming instant entrepreneurs, and also public officials becoming public entrepreneurs—all of them inventing ways to keep... View Details