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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
chain, which expanded to five locations before succumbing to financial difficulties after several years of struggle. The experience “wiped me out financially,” says Rogers. Down to his last $4,000 and in need of a job, he dropped in one... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
(MBA 1986), founder of Second Opinion Wealth Management and author of five novels, including The Pell Heist (2018) and Windfall (forthcoming) MUST READ Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) by Tomas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
him are heroes, plain and simple, because they have the capacity to change the world for the better. “Tim recognizes the difficulty of effecting change, and the need to celebrate the people who do that work,” says Jennifer Fonstad (MBA 1997), a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Jun 2025
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Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift
roundtables, workshops, awards, and fireside chats. Culture Shift aims to solve relevant problems in diversity, like how tech can improve health outcomes or financial disparities with the input of diverse leaders across industries. During... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
that helps him or her to fully understand the consequences of shoplifting and to make better choices in the future. The expense (about $320) is borne by the offender, although financial assistance is available to those who qualify. “Cost... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
I ever had, to go there, it was absolutely the worst job I'd ever had. So, that's my worst job, I'm sticking to it, the year was 1975, it's a fact. Jess Bullitt (MBA 2014): Jess Bullitt, 2014. Right out of college, I worked on a trading floor. [It was] ‘08, so the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
2021), Chief Financial Officer, RTD When did you take on this leadership role, and why? When I moved from Massachusetts to Colorado in 2021, I was eager to build new connections and establish a strong community here. I found exactly that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
because the government regulated everything. I'll never forget, I was flying on a competitor airline one day, and I saw the whole first class cabin fill up with smoke from a guy's cigar smoking. So when I went back after that and I went to our View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
China, and India combined. It's a huge market. But they also discovered that over 90 percent of female consumers, who are responsible for most of the shopping, are dissatisfied with the goods and services that are out there. Top of the list are View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and therapy, and start to explore what else is out there and what you would want to do. That's stage two. Then stage three is more of an integrating what you've learned. I spoke to a CEO of a financial advisory firm in Seattle, who has... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
and planned to get her money's worth." Keep those cards and letters coming! February 1, 1928 Theodore Sander, Jr., has resigned his position with Goldman, Sachs & Company and has been appointed assistant sales manager of the Royal Baking... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending
people from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Starbucks, Nike, and Microsoft. There’s a lot of product management oomph there,” she says. And many of them, like Lee, who worked at Sony and Microsoft, left more traditional tech jobs for... View Details