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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Century Character Studies: The Class of 2001 Graduates Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal A Long Road of Learning Q&A: Donna Dubinsky The Whole World in Her Handheld Complete Table of Contents April 2001 New Ventures New Gains HBS Business Plan... View Details
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
brilliant book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, about successful executives hitting points of friction as they grow, requiring changes in their behavior in order to continue to succeed. I often coach my entrepreneurs to assess... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs reform, the book presents specific... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
Forté Forum: Dallas
HBS is participating in the Forté MBA Forum in Dallas. This forum is held annually to empower women — whether you're looking to change careers, a college student planning for the future, or a professional ready for career advancement.... View Details
- 27 Aug 2024
Forté Forum: New York
HBS is participating in the Forté MBA Forum in New York. This forum is held annually to empower women — whether you're looking to change careers, a college student planning for the future, or a professional ready for career advancement.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
"masterful" and "worthy of any great ensemble in the world.") As for his future, Lim says, "This marriage of my corporate and music lives is deeply fulfilling; I plan to continue accordingly." For Lim, then, Metamorphosen's View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Focused and pragmatic, she is deeply committed to across-the-board success at a school where 93 percent of students are African American, and 65 percent are from economic backgrounds that qualify them for free or reduced school lunches.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
but a lot of them,’” says Gernon. After earlier posts in health care tech and brand marketing, Gernon worked with a number of successful startups—including MotherNature.com, which had a $50 million IPO. More recently, she discovered a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Portrait Project
Antonio Rocha
friends, my job, and getting divorced. I would be lying if I said I planned all those changes. I did not. They just happened, fast and unexpectedly. I just knew that I needed to change something, and I am glad I did. The past couple years... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
to those of Mosaic, a similar tool then under development at the University of Illinois. Reviewers of Brooks's prototype raved about its ease of use and reliability. The engineer felt certain that, with EG&G's backing, his idea would soon be a major View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
stay-at-home moms to return to work? Money is probably the biggest motivation but not just for itself. Often it’s a desire to be able to spend one’s own earned money. People often measure how successful they are by money. Many women want... View Details
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
Zhalisa Clarke’s Sabbatical Story: Tech leader turned healer
V.P., she didn’t feel particularly successful compared to her classmates, and was increasingly overloaded with stress. Zhalisa consistently worked on weekends and struggled to balance work and personal life. At the same time, a couple of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
Web Extras Experiment Fund President’s Challenge US–China trade relations exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center New Venture Winner an Undercover Success Angela Newnam (MBA 1996) did not set out to be an entrepreneur. But the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Mickey Herbert parleyed a stint as an administrative assistant to a pediatric neurologist into a successful career as the founder and CEO of a Connecticut HMO. Not bad for someone who confesses he had “no clue” what he wanted to do after... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
and health plan administrators measure and improve their health results for plan members. Fourth, employers must accelerate change in reimbursement to link financial success to... View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
leading to more advancements. The issue they discovered was that the structure of the cure ecosystem wasn’t built around business efficiencies. Organizations, which are often solely research-focused, could achieve so much more by building and implementing comprehensive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health insurance firm, a highly successful Russian... View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
to 8 students each. Smaller groups facilitated by one or two company representatives allow for increased participation. Also, set your company representative up for success with plans for facilitating the... View Details
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