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- 25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries to businesses and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
demonstrate that, in Africa, we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way,” Lawani explains. “We're just at a different point in our development.” With over $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly sub-Saharan, Helios focuses on financial... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me an incredible opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Silicon Valley’s burgeoning venture capital industry. Founding U.S. Venture Partners in 1981 provided Bowes the opportunity to help create, rather than merely finance, initiatives at their earliest stages. The firm has shaped the software, health-care, e-commerce, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
one time, consumers readily shared personal information. Recently, however, many customers have begun to bristle when asked personal questions. They wonder: Who else is privy to this information? What's in it for me? In their 1996 working... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
audience bursts into applause, he delivers his key pitch: Just think about all the wires coming off things like TVs, he says. "Imagine if you can get rid of 'em." Finally untethering consumers from their wall sockets and their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
consumer deleveraging. This, in turn, has created defaults among financial institutions.” In this context, Kaplan maintains that the financial rescue plan was necessary but not sufficient by itself. “There has to be a second step, and it... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
in the middle of a recession, and we have seen a lot of changes,” noted Davis, who is now EVP and manager of the consumer banking segment at FleetBoston Financial Corporation. “We've spent our careers in a climate of heightened... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
their goods or the quality of services. The next step in what they referred to as the “progression of economic value” would require engaging consumers experientially, “on an emotional, physical, intellectual, or even spiritual level.”... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
"several influential newspapers and magazines and three TV networks pretty much held sway. Now there's the 24-hour news cycle - and the Internet, where every whiff of a rumor finds its way into the national bloodstream. There's a greater burden on the View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
been taken on by the restaurant industry. Americans now spend more meal occasions eating out (or eating take-out) than they do consuming home-prepared meals. How else is food's role in our culture changing? Beyond sustenance, food is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from the View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health Care a Top Priority at HBS
a topic of great interest to our faculty, students, and alumni.” She notes that some 20 percent of HBS professors are interested in health care, pursuing research in four general areas: management best practices; lab-to-marketplace processes; strategy and View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
willing to pay more for the latter. Unfortunately, by purposefully ignoring real differences in what consumers were willing to pay for Black-owned rentals and basing its calculations on data from predominantly white-owned properties, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
get to talk with them and get acquainted. We learned so much about what’s current in consumer and tech, and enjoyed hearing about their experiences prior to HBS and their summer jobs.” Patty McKenna (MBA 1988) “It was such a great... View Details