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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
Now that customers have more of a voice in the consumer-brand relationship, some brands have suffered loud criticism for recent business decisions. How can brands avoid that pitfall? I’m not sure consumer criticism is always necessarily negative. Some recent examples... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
witnessed the seemingly intractable achievement gap between white students and students of color. She saw teachers and administrators struggling to provide the support that communities needed beyond the classroom. Liu went on to study... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
27-year-old African-American candidate will face current mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, former mayor Sheila Dixon, and a growing field of other candidates in the April Democratic primary, which has historically served as a predictor of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Illustration by Robert Neubecker Sports injuries are a business concern for Clara Wu Tsai (MBA 1993). She and her husband, Joe Tsai, are owners of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets; the WNBA’s New York Liberty; and the men’s lacrosse team, the San Diego Seals. Sidelined athletes... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
photo by David Tejada Aravaipa Ventures was inspired by the smell of clean, crisp Colorado air. Founder Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) and his family had moved from France to Boulder in 2007 as he contemplated his next professional move after a successful private... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
+LISTEN Su talks more about her book on the Skydeck podcast +LISTEN Su talks more about her book on the Skydeck podcast Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) wrote her new book, The Leader You Want to Be, in part because she realized she wasn’t always the leader she wanted to be. As... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) was 15 years old when he first recognized an issue prevalent in American cities. “I asked my grandmother why everyone else had money and we didn’t,” recalls Davis, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, now one of the most rapidly gentrifying cities in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
Buenos Aires’s Villa 31 is within sight of Retiro, one of the wealthiest enclaves in Argentina’s capital. But the villa miseria—the Argentinian term for an unplanned shantytown—is a world away. The neighborhood is sandwiched between the largest railway station in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
(photo by Leah Fasten) My impetus to start my own company was so somebody else couldn’t control my destiny. My first company was Cameesa, an apparel company with a Kickstarter model. There were many failures: We didn’t know what we were doing; 2007 to 2008 was really... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company Abercrombie & Kent in 1962. By age... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how to bark like a dog. My mother... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
(Javier Larrea/Getty Images) Today: Most smart homes connect basic electronic devices such as lights, locks, smoke detectors, security cameras, and thermostats. Tomorrow: Homes will be fully outfitted with smart appliances, which can make efficiency decisions such as... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
Above: photo by Brian Doben You’ve had a varied career in book publishing. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen in your 15 years in the industry? Milena Alberti: Like so many media categories, the biggest change for trade book publishing has been... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
Photo courtesy of Ben de Menil In a palm tree–lined school courtyard in the small town of Cabarete, on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, children are making music. Some play the bongos; some, guitars. Others sing or step and sway to the familiar four-count... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash For his latest venture, serial entrepreneur Jan Samzelius (MBA 1979) set out to eliminate one of the biggest annoyances of the digital era: hard-to-remember passwords. But along the way, the data security expert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country three years earlier in hopes of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs across all sectors and around... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
The Equity Network began with a single LinkedIn post. Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Kristina Hu In the summer of 2020, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), then an incoming HBS student, was sitting in her San Francisco home watching the Black Lives Matter protests across... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
As Professor Linda Hill set out to study “digital leaders,” the first thing she learned is that there is no such thing. All leaders—regardless of their sector—must think differently to lead a successful company in the digital age, explains Hill, the Wallace Brett... View Details
Keywords: April White