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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Runner-Up and Lovin’ It
Meanwhile, what about the HBS experience? Did it help? “Without a doubt,” Jackson told Alan Murray of CNBC (April 16, 2004). “What you learn there is how to present yourself in a succinct fashion and really be articulate and know that you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
focused on Italy’s luxury brands: She wanted to understand why other countries have not been able to replicate the quality of goods made in Italy or the country’s reputation for excellence. At Casa Zegna, home to the historical archive of the Ermenegildo Zegna luxury... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
that most excited Williams. Speaking on the outdoor patio of the Kigali Marriott a few days before the BAL championship, he noted that, earlier in the week, he had attended a curated meal of African cuisine that featured a fashion show.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
Hanazawa, who also founded Fashion Girls for Humanity (FGFH), a nonprofit that provides humanitarian services and funds to victims of natural disasters, began to study a medical gown given to her by a friend in the medical profession. She... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
the typewriter, keeping thirty short stories at a time out for consideration and ignoring hundreds of rejections. He was the purest sort of entrepreneur, fashioning something out of nothing more substantial than a typewriter, paper, and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
point in my career rather than a continuation of my job after college,” he notes. “It is allowing me to explore other avenues.” One of those avenues is launching his own fashion e-commerce company, Darza, which means “stitch” in Arabic.... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
China Dominates HBS Business Plan Contest
The economic power and emerging opportunities in China inspired winners in the tenth annual HBS Business Plan Contest last April. Tingting Zhong (MBA ’06) won first place in the traditional track for 8Baorice, a company that aims to create an online community focused... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Design Fair
of Pinball, pictured at far right. The team, in collaboration with the Design Continuum and the MIT Media Lab, created a system for fashion retail stores that utilizes weight-sensitive floor tiles in order to know where shoppers are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Horbaczewski (MBA 2008), whose speedy competitors reached 100 mph. PayPal cofounder and tech investor Max Levchin stopped by the i-lab to hear a few pitches from Harvard entrepreneurs, including Brittany Davis (MBA 2015), cofounder and CEO of View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
will require support for women at every level of the labor force. “We really are at a turning point for the global economy,” Collenette adds. “Post-pandemic, either we fashion a world where women take their rightful place in every seat at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
formats and that do something special with the stuff you're storing." —Scott Belsky (MBA 2008), cofounder and head, Behance; VP of products & community, Adobe Aslaug Magnúsdóttir Photo courtesy of Aslaug Magnúsdóttir "In the fashion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
preregister patients? Or maybe something fashion-related? How long does it take people to get dressed in the morning? Is choosing what to wear stressful? Is an interactive app the answer? That fashion app idea has been rattling around in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton was one of last year’s best films.” Mohit Bathija (HBS ’09) said he’s visited his cousin (a fashion designer) on the set of a Bollywood movie and hopes to do something in the entertainment and media space after graduation. “I try... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
can’t wait 10 years to do it,” Rawdon thought. Still at Siebel, and casting about for business ideas, she met Emily Meyer, a designer for Esprit and Gymboree who wanted to create a line of globally inspired children’s clothes. “Business was not her forte, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
company’s mission, using meetings and even Muzak hats and T-shirts to jump-start employees’ emotional connection to their work as “audio architects” who provide the soundtrack for fashionable retail chains and a wide variety of work... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman