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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Nourish: We built a great line of formula-ready baby bottles, and we found a solid customer base. The unit economics made sense. The branding was great, and we were seemingly successful. Then we got a big order with Whole Foods, the dream... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
out of MIT, A123’s patented rechargeable batteries include a breakthrough Nanophosphate powder that increases conductivity, providing higher power levels and longer battery life. With initial applications for commercial View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepare for classes as well? "It was pretty tough," he admits with a smile. "But I thrived on working with people from different sectors of the HBS community on a variety of issues." Getting along with people and taking initiative have... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
1965) and Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990). “It was a tremendous opportunity,” she says. “The Krafts’ customer-first focus, and commitment to analytics-based decision making, fit perfectly with my interests and skills.” As head of customer... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1942 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1964 Earns BS, Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Salomon Brothers 1981 Launches Bloomberg LP 1983 Merrill Lynch becomes Bloomberg’s first... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
topic and, in 1994, to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a nonprofit organization that aims to catalyze innercity business development across the United States. In frequent talks around the country, Porter... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
demand, and on pleasing the best customers - can ultimately weaken a strong firm. In The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen shows how significant breakthroughs in products and services are often initially... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Photos by Kunle Ogunfuyi Even a college degree couldn’t help Temi Abiola, who grew up in Nigeria, land a job. Though he speaks fluent English, he lacked the problem-solving and customer relations skills required for his dream job in the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
earthquake, they were still so hospitable. It was a great opportunity for me to think about how to help them.” She returned to the United States, committed to making a deeper dive into social enterprise work. She landed at the Initiative... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) "At IBM," Gerstner said at the ceremony, "we're diverse by design, not mandate. With customers in more than 160 countries, our workforce has to reflect the rich array of cultures, perspectives, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
imported oil. Our initial reaction to the end of communism was to take a victory lap because capitalism had won. We talked of 3 billion new customers without realizing that many of these people would also... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
are focusing on retraining (upskilling/reskilling) initiatives aimed at either equipping “at-risk” workers with skills relevant to new digital technologies, or helping them leverage existing skills across different occupations enabled by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
the different approaches to launching each business demonstrate that the entrepreneurial journey has more than one path. Herp started Linear in August 2004 with $1 million from friends and family, using much of that initial infusion as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s technology and strategic planning... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
intense and very structured: take a concept idea and get to a real prototype for customers to interact with by the end of the day,” Sapone says. On Wednesday of that first Startup Lockdown, the group worked on a concept then called... View Details