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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
advice, buy products, and manage finances. Enter iTrust with a range of services covering mortgages, mutual funds and other investments, insurance, and tax and financial planning. From the outset, the partners aimed to distinguish iTrust... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
But Wilcox has been at the helm of world-changing companies before. Prior to his latest venture, Transatomic Power, Wilcox (MBA 1995) was the CEO of E Ink, the company that created the display technology for the Kindle, Nook, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
into an operation that now boasts 135 employees and anticipated 2003 revenues of $45 million. As Boston’s Big Dig, a prime revenue source, winds down, City Lights is expanding to other parts of the country. The company has also launched a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
one of Bill’s great traits is that he inspires confidence, which is an important aspect of leadership—not false confidence, but knowing when your instincts are right and being less willing to compromise in a management context. I spent seven years building Zynga and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
lives of their men and women. In other words, the IDF is a factory for developing potential business leaders, with many of the kinds of leadership skills underscored at HBS. And those skills are much in demand as soon as soldiers complete... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
five Is. What are your reflections on your progress on each one? Let’s start with Innovation. We launched some significant innovations, including the FIELD program and HBS Online. Other lesser-known innovations worth mentioning include... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
he said, to create a green energy industry that has the potential to be much larger than telecom. Key elements are legislation that is raising the fuel-efficiency standards of cars from 25 mpg to 35 mpg; providing $80 billion in stimulus money for wind, solar, battery,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
“At first it was just some of us from our Section I. Then it was other students and professors. If you knew Avi—he is so inspiring, no one says ‘no’ to him.” Indeed, dozens of HBS students, alumni, staff, and past and present faculty... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
the world. How’s this possible? So I went in and they said, well, yes, you haven’t been back in domestic investment banking that long so we felt this was the right decision. I thought, well they’re wrong. And I went to some of my other... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
know? In other words, so much has been written about Jack Welch in subsequent years about what a hard-ass he was and things like that. But he actually was really I thought it was challenging in a fun way. You know? Luck matters, right, in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
event” and “radical change” for the company, Marvel has secured $525 million of nonrecourse debt (its film characters serve as collateral) to produce ten motion pictures. With Paramount as its distributor, Marvel will oversee all other... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
an excerpt from Neeley’s book focuses on how to counteract feelings of isolation that can crop up in the absence of contact with other team members. In part two, alumni weigh in with their own pros and cons of working from home; part... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
'ship captains' to help over 200 of our classmates make it onto the Nantucket Ferry and arrive on the island. We knew each other from that point on, but we didn't become close friends until a year later, when we visited West Virginia as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
with General Dynamics Electric Boat to prepare people to build nuclear submarines for the US Navy and work with Bank of America on programs that prepare individuals for jobs in the financial services sector. We also have a partnership with CVS Health to train people... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
with a call to the business community that other speakers would echo as well: get involved. “Traditionally the business community in America has been the most powerful consistent voice in favor of openness toward the world, including... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Connecting people and policymakers in a conversation online
address a social problem. Sze accomplished this by founding The Agora, “an online town hall for all” to give more people a louder voice—one heard directly by elected officials and other policy makers. “Democracies are not as democratic as... View Details