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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
is energetic and vigorous. His gaze is intense, and the legendary steel-trap mind is still in evidence. “My HBS experience was a major event in my life,” he eagerly volunteers, gripping his visitor’s hand. “It opened my eyes to the role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
increasing capacity (more beds in less space) without compromising revenue or the care, comfort, and safety of patients. Since 2010, when Sundaram won the first annual HBS Alumni New Venture Contest, the company has grown from a staff of four to 16, View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for any big company that would have me. I had no particular interest in trains or railroads, but the Chessie System happened to be hiring at the time.” Chessie and the Seaboard System Railroad combined to become CSX in 1986. In 2003, Ward... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
half that of other small jets. Air-taxi proponents believe those economies will open up private-jet travel to a broader base of business and pleasure fliers. Photos Courtesy Linear Air Blink was committed to delivering the finest... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an early View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
previously at Diapers.com, where the prevailing culture was one in which team members thought like owners. It’s one of the values that the cofounders wanted to bring with them as they built their own brand. “We look to hire people who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
globalization; they wanted help and advice,” says Fuller. Seeing an opportunity, Monitor opened offices abroad and hired local staffs. As Monitor grew, it developed its own unique culture. The firm is... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
live and work. "Cross-sector partnering between business, government, and nonprofit sectors will be the collaboration paradigm of the 21st century," he asserts. Teaching Millions One customer with a $500 savings account is not very interesting, but twenty thousand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
light, color, texture, and sound. In February, Louis Vuitton took that premise to a new level, opening a fourstory, 22,000-square-foot boutique on Fifth Avenue designed by architect Peter Marino that features details such as flashing LED... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and know the things that you need to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
in the corporate environment and how harmful their absence can be." Bringing Soul to Work Many organizations have begun to tend to the needs of the spirit by hiring holistic consultants who offer classes and seminars on topics such as... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
the years. To Nation contributor Calvin Trillin, who claims Navasky originally hired him for a salary in the “high two figures,” The Nation is “a pinko sheet on cheap paper.” (Trillin adds that it’s the only magazine whose pages look... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
"because unlike a Harvard degree, you must be open to being tested on something you profess to know at a moment's notice—long after you've graduated." Feerick believes that facts are delivered most effectively online, but at some point in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
don’t have a clue. “What kills me is that there are all these companies using buzzwords like ‘innovation’ in their annual reports. And I believe that 98 percent of them don’t know what innovation really means,” says Ross. “It’s not as simple as View Details