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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
business and life, and gave them practical experience by sending them on consulting assignments with real companies. In the military, he ruffled feathers by resisting orders so he could make sure soldiers had the equipment they needed to... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
of consulting firm Ethical Ventures, recently spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the Business of Racial Equity pledge developed to mobilize the business community to address inequality and injustice. Lewin was a coauthor of the pledge,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation. Time - a precious asset in any industry - has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unexplored, Whitman and Katzenberg say. (photo by Getty/Bloomberg) The demo is the work of director Doug Liman, one of several filmmakers Whitman and Katzenberg consulted to reimagine how a film could be shot, edited, and rendered with a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rocket launches. “When SpaceX began, everybody laughed and wondered how this billionaire guy could come up with a company that was even remotely relevant,” says Gautier Brunet (MBA 2015), a former rocket engineer who works for Seabury Group, a View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
time, Enan asked Habib out for coffee whenever she came back to Cairo. Habib was consulting after exiting Fawry—a vocation Enan doubted was a good fit. She continued to check in with her. "Magda kept joking, saying, ‘What is it? What do... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
better place to ride things out than the town of Warren Buffet." Keen started a consulting firm, Talon Strategy; he also joined the faculty at Creighton, teaching strategy and entrepreneurship. He was ready to move on from his experiences... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
idea for her store four years ago while accompanying her father-in-law on shopping trips for medical equipment. "We're one of four superstores in the country that allows people to 'road test' items such as wheelchairs and walkers before buying them," she says. Private... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
percent of kids’ brains don’t develop to the full potential because of this. Thirty percent remain stunted and don’t grow to their full physical form because of this. So this is a big health issue and it needs resolution. I consulted... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn’t the case. Entrepreneurship is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
in a tumultuous environment. One Sip at a Time: Learning to Live in Provence by Keith Van Sickle (MBA 1985) (Dresher Publishing) This memoir tells how the Van Sickles moved to Provence even though they didn’t speak French and had full-time jobs. After quitting their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
miles south of Kabul previously unknown to cartographers. In the Taliban-influenced south, entering a village to build a cell phone tower was a task to be handled with great tact and cultural sensitivity. Khoja consulted with early Afghan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
ability to think about more than one thing at a time," says Hodgson, who held positions at Deloitte Consulting and Nextera Interactive before coming to HBS. "There's a balancing act involved between the bottom line and the social mission... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
by the 1980s, that number had fallen to 18, and by 2015, it was just four. “Vaccines went out of fashion,” says HBS professor Gary Pisano, who studies the intersection of business and science. “There was a sense among investors that they were boring.” (Pisano View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
like to do are all cases,” Singer says. “A good case presents a set of facts and pushes the reader to ask certain questions. That’s what I want to do too.” His time as a consultant was also formative. “After college, I didn’t know what I... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
working with consulting clients—Wilson was able to move on to his studies with Raiffa and others who were developing a new approach to using economic theory and mathematics to drive strategy and management decisions. JH: And tell me what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
profitability. And in the venture world, a Boston Consulting Group study found that startups with at least one woman on the founding team garner less investment but earn more revenue. For every dollar of funding, the study found, teams... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
director and senior partner in the Athens office of BCG. In 2018 the consultancy published a report highlighting the role that a startup ecosystem could play in boosting the economy. Now when Antoniades confers with ministers, he’s met... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint